Week 40: Flower Power 🤝 Mama Magic

I'm skipping ahead of a few writeups I'm behind on to keep things current: Last week Saturday I hit up Trader Joes and bought a whole lot of flowers and then asked an employee if I could have one of their flower buckets. She said yes! 

I bet you'd like to know what I did with them all. 😄 Well, here's the scoop!

I opened all the packages, arranged them in the bucket, filled it with water, and then wrote out a sign instructing people to take a flower or two if they were a mom, *for* their mom, if they missed their mom, were dealing with infertility, had a friend who lost a mother or child, etc. 

And then I set an alarm to get up early to set them out in the little touristy town I call home.

Downtown sleepy Cedarburg is one of my favorite things, such a juxtaposition from the image most people have, usually only seeing it after a festival or weekend visit. It was nice to walk the street and envision the best place to put the bucket of flowers for maximum visibility. 

After considering a few locations, I decided on a bench near the busiest corner. 

A few hours later I drove to pick up my son to spend the day together. I normally avoid Washington on weekends but purposely drove past to see if any flowers had been taken, and had they ever! 

I was so happy to see a small crowd around the bench, one father and his two sons (one with a cowboy hat and boots on made my heart melt) picking out flowers to give their mama. 

Around 1:00pm my kids and I headed out to my parent's house and took a detour to check on the flowers and there was only one left! Out of the 75 I had put out! 

We went back a few hours later and I emptied the water and disposed of the bucket and sign. Another activity a success...and planned to be a regular life routine for me long after this project is over. 

As a single mom of three, I have had Mother's Days when no one asked my kids what they were planning on making or giving me. I know firsthand how rough and lonely it feels to have the day treated like any other while the other moms in your life are being lifted up. 

If one of the flowers finds its way into the overlooked hands of someone in that experience, I'll feel like the years I plan on doing this going forward will be a success. 

And if they simply find their way into kids and partners excitedly handing them over to moms already in the middle of a day of showers of love, that's awesome too! 

It's the toughest, bestest job on the planet!! We deserve our flowers!