just dandy

It's really too bad that I cannot accept this gift from my sweet girl. She does not know what those flowers can do to me. She wasn't there many, many years ago when I fashioned my five-year-old self a crown of dandelions, placed it on my head, and was promptly whisked off to the school office because I could no longer see. A major allergic reaction. Those dandelions, never to be touched by these hands again.

But, I thanked her just the same.....

And really, must you, sweet Emily Jean, grow up a little bit more each and every day?