I love tulips. I love that you plant them in the fall and when spring comes around, something beautiful and magical pops up.
I love that it's also a perfect way to teach (and remember) about patience, about working for something and then waiting to see the results, about good things coming in their own time.
We planted with the boys. It felt so good to be working together as a family- getting the soil ready, placing the bulbs, digging holes, planting the flowers just-so, and then covering them up again.
The boys loved every minute.
And I am glad for this reminder - in the middle of a long, cold winter when I am tired of being inside and we're all ready for some sunshiney, outside days- that spring really is just around the corner. And we have some good things coming if we have a little patience.
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