herbiehancock

My fifteen year old son asked me if I would take him to the flower shop on Saturday. He wanted to get a single white rose for his girlfriend. They have been dating for sixteen months now, and they were celebrating the anniversary of when they met. I said, "So you two have been together for one and one third years now, huh?" "Yeah," he said and grinned. Well...gee...I'm just not ready for this. What's a mother to do, though, in the face of such open, unabashedly giddy love and devotion. I took him to the flower shop, of course. Later that day when his girlfriend came over, she brought with her a miniature pumpkin and two miniature gourds as an "anniversary" gift to him. You would have thought she handed him a million dollars from the smile on his face. A flower, a pumpkin, and some gourds---just small tokens, but they are tokens of young love. As a result of this exchange between my son and his girlfriend, I have the song, "Young Love"...