EEK! haha I thought that after all my typing away today I had caught up and realised I still had to do my happy thing for today!!..
I think there is something lovely about getting flowers. I feel the same way about plants and flowers as I do about xmas trees .. that I love having nature inside the house and it makes me happy and I assume more people feel the same!!
Hmm.. it is sort of a double whammy here because I live in the same house as the person I love so I am getting the enjoyment too but OH WELL! 
Two for one happiness.. You never turn that down!!
I decided to be a bit weird (nothing strange there) with the flowers I picked I wanted them to reflect the seasons changing and the beauty that comes with winter too. I don’t normally put so much thought into flower buying but I went into an honest to goodness florist where you get to choose..
I thought sunflowers because even though it’s autumn they are still in bloom and thistles because they are Scottish and hardy. There was a beautiful garden that Rose and I saw in Edinburgh zoo which had Sunflowers and thistles in it and I thought it would be reminiscent of that.. erm but smaller!!
Wee bit of garden in Edinburgh Zoo
The flowers I got for my partner
Ok, not exactly the same!! (haha.. actually next to the garden they look a wee bit sad! I think I just need to arrange them a bit better..:/..) but I thought quite unusual and pretty.. I have no idea what the green crap is.. I just said ‘Put some green crap around them!!” except more politely!
I’m looking forward to seeing how my partner likes them when they get home from work!
Lots of happiness today.. also tiredness too as the trip away exhausted me as I had to take lots of meds. I am happy I did it all and I had loads of fun and I have a lot of fantastic memories.. and now flowers for two!
Happy factor + 100!
I love fresh flowers – just something about them that makes me smile.
xxLisa
Flowers are so pretty, although they don’t get on well with my hayfever!! I hope your partner likes them
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Hey you know something.. my nose has been feeling a bit itchy since I got them.. Hmmm.. Weird I never even thought of that!! (Though it’s probably hypochondria! ‘))
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Thank you.
What a lovely gesture. I am sure your partner will love them!
I hope so too!
xxLisa
Call me the anti-romantic, I quit giving cut flowers. They last a day or three, then are gone, like too many relationships these days. Instead i prefer to give a perennial houseplant that blooms year after year, if properly cared for.
Yeah, I used to give flowers regularly and our house used to have plants in it but our cat eats them and pukes them which sort of takes the fun out of it all! Gah!
I have been watching him like like a hawk this time though and sending him out when he tries to have a chew. I throw him out the room for a while. So you see the extra guarding makes these flowers particularly romantic!
The plant idea is great though.. I wish we could have more plants.
xxLisa
Flowers are nice, but I’m more of a cooking person. Good to see you have a 100 on the happy scale!
Yes.. 100 is good but I have no idea what it can go up to!
I’m more of a cooking person too. I am totally won over by a nice meal over flowers… I’m the cook in the house though as my partner gets in from work late so rarely get dinner made for me.. I’m like a 1950′s housewife!! No not really at all..Watching madmen just makes me wish I was one!!
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this may sound a little cliché… do you make haggis?
Never! I have tasted it though. I buy veggie haggis now because I don’t eat red meat.. (Well it’s complicated.. If someone shot it or something I would try it!?)
Haggis is pretty nice.. just like spicy beef (except it’s actually lambs lung and lobes!)
Ok.. I don’t think I sold that well!! :/
hahaha
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I know what haggis is, I just haven’t had the chance to taste it back when I visited scotland on my school trip. And I’ve eaten stuff that sounds much grosser; after all, I grew up in a region that was ridden with poverty for centuries
Thanks for visiting/following my blog, http://gapeach52.wordpress.com/. I’m looking to more of your posts.
Good to hear your voice through your writing Brenda.
Also Thank you and take care!
xxLisa
Hey, thanks for following my blog! I like this idea that you are trying out! And I see you visited Edinburgh… are you from Scotland? ~Cali
I like your writing style!
Yes I’m from Scotland. On the west coast near the sea. Opposite side of the country from Edinburgh but it only took an hour and a half to get there…which is one of the pros of living in a fairly small country!
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Thank you for following Life Beyond the Picket Fence and also for spending my time at the website. I am encouraged by your challenge. You are a brave woman and will be an inspiration to others. I’m glad to share in this journey with you.
Thank you Brenda. I found your blog and loved that you are a”….encourager who brings restorative hope and truth to others whose lives don’t fit the story-book image.” That sounded pretty fantastic to me and so I was interested to read about what you do. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for sharing my journey with me and for your kind words too.
Love and light xxLisa
Beautiful! I used to tell people that I hated getting flowers because they are a waste of money but really…I love it. It tells you that that person was thinking of you at multiple points during the day and, from a loved one, you can’t ask for much more.
Glad you had a great day!
I used to say that too funny enough!! I believe that most people secretly like getting flowers too.. They brighten up the room and like you say you know the person who bought you them will have been thinking about you a lot all day.
Thank you!
xxLisa
I love to receive plants… not flowers. I always get sad when flowers die. Plants live forever (as long as I can keep them alive). I can’t tell you how many plants I have killed on accident.
You sound amazingly happy today which is really awesome.
Tired and happy is my favorite kind of happy. It means you did something really big and worth it!!!
Here’s to happiness!
Rebecca
Yeah.. I throw them out when they start to look depressing!!
Plants truly are a better idea but I’m not sure I could stand the stress of constantly guarding my cat against eating them. We are thinking of having a room that Oscar isn’t allowed in when we get the house fixed.. though he is relentless and would cry at the door and chap it until we let him in probably.
I was happy yesterday but ridiculously tired. I do feel it was really big and worth it though..actually I sort of can’t believe I did it… I think between doing this blog and the fact that I wanted wee Michael to have the best experience possible.. I forced myself to do it really. It’s hard to explain.
I’m so glad I did though!
Love, light and happiness always Rebecca.
xxLisa
You are an amazingingly strong person, and I admire that. I just lost my sister at the end of July to cardiac arrest and I don’t know where to begin to ever find happiness again. Her name was Lisa.
I’m so terribly sorry to hear about you losing your sister. July was very recent as grieving goes so it’s understandable that you feel you will never find happiness again.
I know quite a lot of friends who have lost ones recently. Strangely one of my FB friends whose sister died, she was also called Lisa.
You will find happiness again, I promise you. Different people grieve differently and so I don’t believe it’s as simple as going through all the stages like denial, anger..etc but I do think we can go through some of them, in different orders and sometimes we suppress them till later.
Many people feel guilt that they are still alive and have the capacity to have fun and enjoy life while the one they loved is gone. You know your sister would want you to be happy again.
My partner lost their Mum less than a year before I met them and they always felt a guilt if they were happy.. slowly though they allowed happiness back into their lives. Also the memories of her mum dying were replaced by memories they shared when she was alive.
You will get through this and you will be happy again. The reason they call it ‘The grieving process’ is because it’s something we just can’t skip past.. we have to feel it and experience it and be sad and grief stricken for a while.
Know that you are not alone and that others have gone through the same process.. and know that some day happiness will return to you bit by bit until you can look back on Lisa with warm memories that will make you smile and not cry.
I wish you all the healing in the world. xxLisa