Flowers? For me?
I got a phone call at my desk telling me that they had flowers for me in receiving, could they bring them out to me? Flowers? For me? Since my coworkers are joksters, I was convinced that they were playing a joke on me. Still, I waited staring at the door from the stairwell excited! Flowers! For me! My coworkers poked fun at me for being so excited. Waiting. Will there really be flowers?
I’ve never gotten flowers at work before. I take that back, Ryan did bring me a gorgeous potted plant as a surprise once (and I haven’t managed to kill it yet!), but that’s about it. I had a feeling they weren’t from Ryan. He’s sweet about a whole lot of everyday things, but not necessarily a flower type guy. My parents? No, they’re out of town. A stalker? Oh geesh, hope not.
So real, honest to goodness flowers came in through the door. They’re from my cousins in California! “Congrats on your great achievement of getting your masters. We are so proud of you. We love you!” I just about melted. I only see them once a year if we’re lucky, and there’s very little correspondence in between. They thought of me! And sent me flowers!
My coworkers, being engineers, are all men. They ranted about ‘women and flowers’ all the way to lunch. But see, what they don’t get is that its not the flowers. I could be, well.. anything. Its just the fact that someone out there was thinking about you and actually took the time to do something nice for YOU. How often do we think to do that for people?
I will say, my friend Kelli is really great at doing that. I think for every big (and sometimes even the small) thing that has happened to me, I get a great handmade card in the actual, physical mail. She even sent a card to Ryan for his firefighting graduation! Miss Rebbeca Louise is pretty good at this too. A card just because they’re happy for their friends’ happiness.
I need to be more like this. I should do nice, unexpected things for them more. I need to write to my grandma more often. I need to send cards that actually get to people on their birthdays. I need to take friends out to dinner if they’re just having a bad day.
Leslie and kids, I’m pretty sure you have no idea that this site exists, but thanks for making my week! I hope someday I’ll have the opportunity to do the same for you. On second thought, maybe I’ll do the same just because. LOVE YOU!
