earth, wind & fire

I have missed you guys out there in blog land. My week has been crazy busy with a mix of a whole lot of weirdness! Ok, let me back up before I move to fast, back to Valentine's week events. Roxanne and Bryar had a fabulous time at their preschool Fairy Tale Ball. I've got tons of pictures to post (maybe later), but I thought this one was just the cutest thing ever! The girls looked precious all decked in their princess attire, prissy hair do's and the whole shebang.

The kids have been out of school this week. They have been hanging with me learning the ropes of running a gift shop. At this point I have total confidence that they would be great as full time employees. They can scan an item with that fun little hand held scanner, they love playing with money, they have the best smiles and they are very eager to learn. Not to mention, the are happy with earning $1.00!

Speaking of the shop, it's getting close to our opening day (March 1st). It seems like time has flown by. Most of our plant products are in. We are still waiting to order our spring flowers. The growers should have them ready by April. So, mother nature has been hovering over the nursery taking in all the fresh beauty of the new arrivals.

The wind has been fierce! "March winds", we've got'em. It's not quite March, but man the wind has been stirring things up. I think the garden center crew has spent more time picking up plants that anything. Craz-EEEEE!!!!

Oh, so I guess you are wondering why my post title includes fire? Well, we had a serious fire. No damage done and no one was hurt thank goodness. My little Roxanne's clothes caught fire on Wednesday. I was guarding a gas heater and she ran between me and the heater. She got so close that her clothes brushed the face of the heater and her clothes immediately started to catch fire. She had a ribbon of rolling flames across her shirt in seconds. The flames never took hold of her shirt. I assume maybe b/c it was kids apparel that there may have been a flame retardant substance in the blend of the fabric. However, my honest thought about the accident is that I serve an amazing God who kept his hand on the situation and spared what could have been a tragic moment.

So, we have had a little crazy weirdness this week. My hopes are that next week things will fall into place as we have planned. Today is not showing any sign of "rest" - LOL I'm on my way to get a head shot of Tommy to submit for a magazine article that he wrote for one of our community magazines. We also had a local news station request an interview with us. They were total impressed with the garden center, yeah! Oh, but that was the day I spilt gas on myself, just thought I'd plug that in for laughs :)

Enjoy your weekend!