who doesn't love fresh flowers?

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one of the best things about attending blissdom last week was meeting all of the other awesome bloggers.

one of the lovely ladies i met is krista. her blog is called hope in the waiting. she is a beautiful writer and is totally open and honest about the ups and downs in her life. she also writes a tuesday's tip series that i love! 

her latest idea is called operation project vase. her challenge to her readers is for each friday in february to take a vase you're not using around your house, fill it with fresh flowers and take it to someone who you want to show appreciation for or to someone who needs a little pick me up. 

i personally love having fresh flowers in my home and would be SO happy if someone just randomly showed up with such a treat (uh.....hint, hint hubby....). i knew immediately that this was something i wanted to do.

soooooo, back at the beginning of the school year, i signed up to take lunch to my son's kindergarten teacher today. this is something we parents do for her once a month to show her how much we appreciate her for loving on our kids and teaching them so well! she actually taught my daughter last year too. she is amazing and i have been so lucky to get to know her over the past 2 years.

thinking about operation project vase, i knew Mrs. CC would be my first recipient.

i didn't have any extra vases around my house because i usually take them to goodwill or chunk them in the trash to save room in my cabinets. however, my husband has a slight obsession with mayhaw jelly and orders it by the case (that's a post in and of itself, really...)
so i used a jelly jar as my vase.

LL (that's what we call my 3 year old) and i ran to the grocery store and bought a small bouquet of roses and wildflowers. then we picked up Mrs. CC's lunch and headed to the school.

now, here are some tips, if you wait till the last minute to get this together and have to assemble it in your car (like i did).  

1. be super careful or you will spill water all down the front of your clothes and break some flowers while trying to balance the vase on your knee.

2. try not to do this project with your 3 year old. she could not understand why the flowers weren't going in her room at home. (i ended up keeping out a few of the sprigs for her.)

we met Mrs. CC on her way to a meeting and gave her lunch and her flowers. she loved it and even brought the vase to her lunch meeting to share with the other kindergarten teachers. 

here's a quick snapshot i took of her on her way to the meeting:

she said "really? you're going to blog about this?" 

i told her of course i wanted to share how awesome we think she is!

so there you have it. my first operation project vase mission complete. who will be next?

thanks for the awesome idea, krista! 

i'm linking the story up to her site. spend some time there and get to know krista. she's awesome!