A Return Home

Today is Mother’s Day and like many other mothers across the country, I am receiving a bouquet of flowers. This is an expression of the devotion and love that the children and husbands across the country have for the mothers in their lives. Now, while my bouquet is not from a florist or the store, I do love it just as much. It isn’t a bouquet of fancy flowers such as roses, tulips and daisies. Mine is a mere bouquet of dandelions picked fresh from our backyard.

Many mothers receive such bouquets from their young children and we gush over them. Not because we actually like or love dandelions, but because our children thought of us. They made an effort to pick something for us that through their eyes is beautiful. Eventually our children quit picking the dandelion bouquets for us and those days are over. I thought that mine were over.

But when you have a child with Asperger’s, sometimes you get to enjoy things like dandelion bouquets just a little longer. The boy heard someone telling a group of 3 and 4 year olds that moms just love to receive dandelions from their children. So he fixated on this and I am now the proud owner of a dandelion bouquet once more. I love it because it came from his heart and even though he is growing up, I get to keep my boy little just one more Mother’s Day. What more could a mother ask for?

Photo by Anita Patterson Peppers

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