Grocery store flowers

A post from The Daddy Man:

Kimmy has a vase with 12 roses in it, sitting on the kitchen counter.

They're red ... because that's her favorite color (and it just so happens to be the favorite color of the flower chooser, too).

They came from the grocery store (because when the boy realized the flower he picked for his Mama on the playground was nowhere to be found, he melted down in the day care parking lot).

Biscuit and I are finally getting over the colds we've had for the past week. We're both still coughing, but all the other stuff has gone away.

But now it's Kimmy's turn. We were hoping she was lucky enough to have this one pass her by, but by Sunday evening, we knew it was heading her way.

She had a fever and chills and bodyaches yesterday so bad that she stayed home from work.

So when I went to pick up Biscuit at day care, he told me that he had picked a flower for her when he was outside because "flowers make sick people feel better."

The problem was, by the time we got to the car, Biscuit couldn't find the flower he had picked. He searched frantically through his pockets, but it wasn't there.

And then he cried.

It wasn't the I'm-not-getting-my-way cry. I have no problem dismissing that cry. But this one was the my-world-has-ended cry. And when that one happens, I just feel bad for him.

There's a grocery store across the road from Biscuit's day care, so I took him over there and told him he could pick out some flowers for Kimmy. And he went straight for the red roses.

Once we got home, Biscuit walked in, yelled "SURPRISE!" and handed the flowers to his Mama. She made a big fuss and gave big hugs and kisses.

"Why did I get flowers?" Kimmy asked him.

"Because flowers make people feel better," he said.

"Why did you pick THESE flowers?" she asked him, thinking he was going to say "because they're red, and red is our favorite color."

Instead, he repeated his previous answer like he had said it 14 times already, "Because Mom ... they ... help ... sick ... people ... feel ... better."

Flowers with a side of attitude. Feel better, Mama.