Last summer my friends and I threw a baby shower for our sweet friend Lexie who gave birth to baby Alyce in August. At her baby shower we gave out wildflower seeds as party favors. I held onto those seeds until Alyce was born. Shortly after her birth , I sprinkled the seeds into my flowerbed to see what would happen. I didn't have high hopes since those packets of wildflower seeds rarely blossom into anything significant.
A few weeks later, I started noticing that the seeds were actually sprouting. They kept getting taller and taller, but never blossomed. Then I thought it was too late because winter came. This was a rough winter as far as San Antonio goes...ice, frost, biting temperatures below freezing. I thought that those tiny little wildflower seedlings wouldn't stand a chance...after all, the freezing temps killed 3 of my citrus trees and my 2 large hibiscus bushes, certainly it would destroy these tiny little seedlings.
I checked on them every single day. To my surprise, while everything around them was turning a dingy brown and dying and drooping, they stayed strong and green. Then the weather began to get warmer and they wildflower seedlings shot up towards the sun, reaching their perfect green limbs towards the sky, and bursting with the most beautiful and vibrant blossoms. Now, I have a garden that looks like one you would see in front of an English cottage. Despite the harsh conditions that destroyed everything else in sight, these wildflowers not only survived, but came out stronger and more beautiful than anything else in my garden. I call them my "Alyce Flowers".
Baby Alyce, I know you will be like these wild flowers. You will weather any storm and face any challenge you encounter in your long life. Although you are tiny, you will always emerge strong, beautiful, wild, and full of life and color, just like your wildflowers.
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