Hello again. I’m back after a 4-month hiatus. It was unplanned
except that I had a third baby (his name is Blake) and got lost in the depths
of his squishiness. See:
In August, the girls and I picked sunflowers along the
roadside.
Blake rested peacefully in his car seat while we gathered
handfuls of the goldenrod-colored flowers. The afternoon sunlight glowed off
the faces of my children. Claire and Avery were disappointed to find that those
beady, black ants liked the flowers as much as they do. They have quite the
insect aversion right now. Still, they both had fistfuls of daisy-sized
sunflowers by the time we moved on.
All summer throughout the Springs, I noticed sunflowers
along the roads, and I remembered my April declaration that there were still no flowers here in Colorado. I wasn’t sure if I would see any at all, and I was
most definitely not sure if I would
create any roots that would compare even to the non-existent flowers.
Then, I noticed some large purple bushes pretty much
everywhere. It turns out that the deer don’t eat the yellow or purple flowers,
so they survive. The deer gobble up everything even things they technically
aren’t supposed to like at all, like tulips. So, even though I think having
deer right outside my windows is pretty awesome, when the green leaves FINALLY
started growing in June, I am not ashamed to say that when I saw a deer eating
them, I went and threw rocks ‘near’ the deer just to let it know – “These are
MY leaves. Go back to the mountains for you OWN leaves.” Then I remembered that
I live in the mountains and the deer were here first. SO. 
What do you do when you're homesick?
