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Visions of Sugar Plums and Carnations are Dancing Through My Head!
I love flowers. One of my favorite flowers is the carnation because it comes in so many lovely colors, smells beautiful and has a long life. I am not hugely crazy on roses. They are beautiful and their scent is heavenly, but I obviously don't know how to care for the cut roses very well because they rarely last more than a few days for me.
Several years ago, my husband gave me a wonderful gift, actually two wonderful gifts. He purchased me a year of flowers and a year of plants. Every other week, the FedEx man would arrive with the flower or plant of the month. They were all beautiful and brightened up our home. And it was neat because I knew there would be a flower delivery every couple of weeks! And it was a great plan for my husband because his memory isn't very long and he would forget to get flowers for me, but he knew how much I loved them. So he ordered once and then it was taken care of for a year!
I know flowers aren't necessarily a practical gift...after all, they aren't something you can use again and again. But women all over the world love receiving flowers. My husband's grandmother who passed away a couple of years ago told us she wanted flowers when she was living, not on her grave. So we always got her flowers. One of her grandaughters bought her 90 roses on her 90th birthday! She was thrilled!
My husband was asking me what I wanted for a gift for this Christmas, so I have been perusing the web and checking out possibilities.
Look at this beautfiul Christmas arrangement! It has my beloved carnations, it is very Christmassy and it has some lovely scented roses as well. And I can pick the vase I want and there is an option to add a bear...I have gotten flowers from Daniel before with a cute bear attached. B-yoot-ti-ful!
And here is another beautiful arrangement...it's sugar plum lilies! How could one not love a bouquet of flowers with a name like that?
Want to look at some beautiful arrangements? Hop over to Proflowers.com and tell me which one you like best. Who knows...maybe your husband would appreciate the information!
I actually tried to back everything up, but for some reason, couldn't figure out how. I thought it was easy. Do you know how? I have cds, and everything I want to back up is pretty much in one folder marker school units. But when I tried to copy them, there was no option to copy to cd drive.
December 13, 2007 1:03 PMThat's actually a really neat idea!! I would love to get flowers every week. My hubby hates spending the money on flowers that die, so I've told him before to just buy me a rose bush or something for me to stick in my yard. But, his memory is as long as your hubby's and I have yet to get something like that... ;-)
December 13, 2007 1:06 PMTrying to figure out a way to slip this post into my husband's magazine a la Ralphie to give him the hint! What a great gift! My 3 year old told me yesterday--within hubby's earshot--that he's going to give me "bootifuw pink and puwpuw fwowews" for Christmas! I should pay the kid!
December 14, 2007 9:08 AM
