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No, I didn’t plant these sunflowers in a yogurt cup.
My kid did, and I can’t bear to thin them out
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Aug 14, 2023
Our youngest loves living things.
He collects seeds from plants, the library seed catalog, and the hardware store.
A few months ago we attended a baby shower where we were gifted tiny terracotta pots and a few sunflower seeds.
Our youngest planted his on the first day.
It grew, bloomed, and now is gone.
He’s been eyeing mine ever since. Two weeks ago I broke down and said he could plant them.
He got excited but then dropped the little pot and cracked it.
I had saved some yogurt containers from our summer trip to Iowa. We poked holes in it and used the lid to catch water.
He planted them all, and now I can’t bear to pull any of them out.
© A A McRae 2023
