Take time to smell the roses....

I was admiring the long stemmed pink rose that Ruth presented to me for Valentine's day. Although it's a little wilted (she hid it inside her schoolbag), it was a nevertheless something very special. She also presented a bar of Cadbury's chocolate to hubby. These were Ruth's first Valentine gifts to us and it was a very touching moment.

I stopped for a moment to smell the rose. Something beautiful, fragrant and powerfully compelling. It hit me hard that we had all been real busy catching up with the ebb and flow, the mundane routine of life that we hardly took any time to appreciate the little, perhaps, sometimes insignificant things in life.

Hubby never really like chocolates, but Ruth's gift touch him in a special way. He unwrapped bar and proceed to share the contents with us. We had something real sweet and beautiful to linger on.