The temperature is reaching into the 60s these days and the girls are spending hours each day outside. It is that time of year when I must remind myself that kids should play in the mud because, wow, my girls can really get themselves muddy.
This is also the time of year I sing Daffodil Lament by The Cranberries non-stop. Specifically, I sing the happy part. The "and the daffodils look lovely today" part. Daffodils are blooming everywhere and I just keep singing that refrain. I love it when the daffodils bloom because it is such a bright, cheerful sign that spring has arrived.
Prior to having kids I was fairly oblivious to flowers blooming around me (see my post on the subject here). Meg took an early interest in flowers and through her love of flowers, I began to take notice as well. Then one day Daffodil Lament made so much more sense. The song begins sad and depressed because the narrator is in a cold, cruel relationship. She is in a bleak winter. Then she decides to leave the relationship and suddenly she is seeing lovely daffodils everywhere. Her spring has come. Until I realized daffodils were one of the first flowers of spring, I simply couldn't fully understand the imagery.
We are at a park right now and Meg and Clare keep bringing me daffodils (which they claim they are not picking but only finding already on the ground) and saying, "Look mommy. It's spring." The daffodils do indeed look lovely today.
Prior to having kids I was fairly oblivious to flowers blooming around me (see my post on the subject here). Meg took an early interest in flowers and through her love of flowers, I began to take notice as well. Then one day Daffodil Lament made so much more sense. The song begins sad and depressed because the narrator is in a cold, cruel relationship. She is in a bleak winter. Then she decides to leave the relationship and suddenly she is seeing lovely daffodils everywhere. Her spring has come. Until I realized daffodils were one of the first flowers of spring, I simply couldn't fully understand the imagery.
We are at a park right now and Meg and Clare keep bringing me daffodils (which they claim they are not picking but only finding already on the ground) and saying, "Look mommy. It's spring." The daffodils do indeed look lovely today.
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