Life, Silva style!!: Good things come to those who wait!

Quite a few years ago I picked the kids up from school when Marko was in 2nd grade and Tita was in 1st. It was Mother's Day 2006. The kids ran to meet me in front of the school. They could hardly contain their excitement at what they carried in their little arms and you could see the pride in their beautiful little faces.

The kids had been working on their Mother's Day gifts for a couple weeks and finally, the day they could take them home to mama was here.
Tita presented me with a painted picture and a card and they were just beautiful and perfect.
Marko presented me with a small cup with what he said was a flower he planted himself with a few seeds. It also was beautiful and perfect.
When we got home, I put my beautiful painted picture on the front of the refrigerator with a magnet and I placed the flower in a cup and set it by the kitchen sink and watered it.
Well, throughout the years, it never really grew, but it never died either. So I hung on to it and continued to water it.
And throughout the years, every single time we moved to another house, the thought actually crossed my mind to toss it because as I said earlier, it just never grew. But I always nixed the idea and kept it and continued to water it even though it was basically just a stump. A green stump at that!
There were actually many times that I'd end up forgetting to water my stump and when I'd remember, I would water it and the entire thing would rise about 5 inches above the water! I actually had to hold the clump of dirt containing the stump down so that the water could slowly work its way into the clump and it would finally sit in the cup right. If it wasn't such a special gift, believe me, I would have chucked it long ago.
But I didn't. And I am so glad I never did.

Here's why:

It finally started growing! That's right. You can imagine my surprise! And you can probably get a visual of me doing the Happy Dance. Because I totally did (:

It took six whole years later for it to finally do this:

Here's a picture of the bottom of the plastic cup Marko brought it home in. Can you see his name?

Can you believe those rich, green beautiful leaves! It's going to keep on growing, I just know it.
And I can't tell you how excited I am!....Not that I've let on...right?

I am going to buy the perfect pot for it because this old plastic one I found in the garage just isn't good enough. It was good enough when it was a stump, but not now! Those beautiful leaves deserve a beautiful pot...Right? I think Yes.

You know, I couldn't tell you what kind of flower it is to save my life, nor could I ever explain the super-duper long delay in sprouting, other than it wasn't going to sprout until it was good and ready. And it took 6 whole years for it to decide it was time.

It's as if Marko gifted me with it all over again.
And I don't think I have to tell how it makes me smile every time I walk by it.

It kind of reminds me of how I had to wait so many long years until I finally held my beautiful, perfect newborn miracle baby in my arms after resigning to the fact that I was never going to have a child of my own. And then shortly thereafter, God gifted me with another miracle baby.

Good things really do come to those who wait.

Thanks again Son! I love it all over again.