The Bluebonnet Field...

Okay, I know there is a children's book that has been written about the Bluebonnet story, but this is my story. My mother loved bluebonnets. So, when our kids were very young, actually she might have started before they were even born, she began to buy a packet or two of seeds each year and throw them in a field next to the house where we lived. The field is owned by the utility company and has very large power lines/poles running through it. So, nothing could be built there, yet they really didn't keep it up. So, my mom would mow the lot BUT only after all her bluebonnets had gone to seed. Each year she anxiously awaited to see the bluebonnets pop up from the soil and God smiled down on this field. Every year the crop got bigger and bigger. When our kids were small, we would always take Easter pictures of them in Nanny's bluebonnet field. It still brings tears to my eyes to think of how much she loved seeing those flowers in bloom. When Mom died, 10 years ago, Dad sold the house and moved into a smaller place. I had lived in that house since I was in the 6th grade. It was home to me. It is only about 5 minutes from here, but I haven't driven by it but maybe twice in the past 10 years. It's just hard. This year, Ashley was talking to me about wanting to take a picture of Emma in some bluebonnets and had I seen any. Then she asked the question. "Is Nanny's bluebonnet field pretty this year". I couldn't answer. I hadn't driven by it. I came home and asked Larry and he chuckled. He relayed a conversation he had with Zach a few days earlier. Zach wanted to take a picture of the boys in Nanny's bluebonnet field. He and Larry had seen that it looked good this year but not big like it used to, yet the bluebonnets that were there, were beautiful. So, about a month ago, when Ashley and Emma were in town, we drove out and took pictures. It was extremely fun and extremely emotional for me. I like to think that Mom was smiling down from above. She never got to meet these great grands. Oh how she would have loved them. She loved her grandchildren like no one else! She was such an incredible example to me of how I want to live my life. As a Wife. Mother. Christian. Sister. Daughter. Friend. But also as a grandmother. I pray when my life is over, that my example and words still live deep in my children and grand children's heart..just like my Mom's example still does. She taught us a lot. She loved us deeply. She longed to go home. Recently I was thinking on heaven and how beautiful it must be. I wonder if it has a bluebonnet field. If Mom has anything to do with it, it will! And we all look forward to the day when we can be joined together in Heaven and who knows, maybe we will meet in a bluebonnet field.

This will be picture overload but we did snap over 200 pictures between 3 cameras. They are in no particular order, just SOME of my favorites! Mom, these are for you!