In Due Time: Valentina Marie Blossoms
Fast-forward to November
2018, literally hours before my water broke, I found this beautiful plant and I
took it home. I hate to spoil it but it too became another plant in honor of my
daughter.
When I came home from the
hospital after she passed away, I began taking care of this new plant. Just like the Jelly Bean plant, this plant,
grew so beautifully. I changed the pot
about three different times. It grew so
big that I needed to find it a new home.
I talked to the gardener at the Greater Newark Conservatory. I explained to him how important this plant
was to me and I didn’t want to get rid of it; I just needed a new home for it. He had this amazing idea. I
could house my plant at the community garden.
He told me to take anything, I wanted from the shed, and use it to
create an area that I could dedicate to my daughters.

Let me remind and give
you a little history about myself. The
funny thing about all this is, I didn’t even like plants before. Never in a
million years, would I have thought I would of been a plant lover. I am a send me flowers type of girl. Blame it on my dad who would send me flowers to
school for special occasions. I guess
from then on out, I was hooked. My
daughter’s father and I use to argue about this all the time. I would tell him to send me flowers. He would say, “I don’t want to give you
something that will die”. He would talk
about plants. My exact words would be “I
hate plants”. On our one-year
anniversary, I wanted to give him a gift that I knew would mean a lot to him. I gave him a bunch of flower plots, seeds,
and soil. I gave in to this concept of growing flowers and plants instead of
killing them by picking them. We made a
mess. He actually got a little annoyed
with me because I kind of took over his gift.
It was so much fun. We had a pretty awesome time planting seeds and
naming our plants. We got a little overly ambitious as we tried to grow 4
different items in each pot. I found myself spending more time then him
checking on our plants. I made sure it received the right amount of sunlight and
water. And as I’m quite sure you imagined, sooner than later, I learned spacing
was everything. The items grew so well, we just didn’t have enough space. And
this right here is where my love for the garden and plants started.
Now back to the part of
the story where we had transferred Valentina Marie plant to the garden. During the whole season, I spent at minimum
three days a week at the garden taking care of this flower. I would rip up the
weeds. I would fix the leaves and give it lots of water. I would sit on the bench when I was done and
talk to God. My family would come and
spend time in this area as well. We
would invite others to take a break and enjoy the beautiful area we
created. Not one time during the whole
season did it sprout. At times, I would give up hope and say to myself “what
happen to my beautiful flower? All of the other flowers around it have sprouted
and grew so beautifully. Now I just have
these long floppy leaves”. As winter approached, the gardener told me, it
would need to be dug up and brought inside for safekeeping as the ground was
beginning to freeze. I agreed and haven’t thought much about it.

I hope this message
reaches someone in need today. Stay
encouraged. Don’t throw in the
towel. That breakthrough that you need
is right around the corner. I want to
end with a big thank you to my girls who are my guardian angels, for being
Mommies light in her moments of darkness. Thank you for letting me know I am
not alone and you are always here with me.
It is signs like this that I know everything will truly be alright.
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