Thank You Grandma Anne!

Our first year in this house 7 years ago, James and I planted lots of flowers and bushes for 2 days.  Then we pretty much stopped taking care of them.  I am in awe every time something flowers.  We got a rose bush because roses always remind me of my Grandma, and I can see the bright red blooms out the front window.  It always makes me smile!  This bush that started out so tiny just grows and grows every year-even this late October morning!  When I looked out the window this morning and saw the bloom, I knew what to do with it.  Kaitlyn and I were literally about to walk to the car and go to the gym, so I cut the flower and took it with us.  My good friend Holly is a trainer at the gym and in August her youngest daughter left for college.  She is such a strong person and such an encourager and motivator, that it is easy to forget she is having a rough time.  I handed the rose to her at the gym and we hugged.  She said she had really needed it and would carry it around all day with her clipboard.  Such a simple act is making us both smile and think of our grandmothers all day!