Dandelion Honor

 

I am now the proud recipient of 15 dandelions that my sweet sprouts have found for me today. I always know what they are bringing me because they start yelling from the other side of the yard, "Mommy, look what I found for you!" They hand it to me with so much enthusiasm and like it is the most fragile and exquisite flower that they have ever seen. I feel honored as their mommy that instead of keeping them for themselves they always bring them to me, as if I must be the most important person in their little world that would deserve such a precious gift. This is another priceless moment of motherhood for me.

 Interesting Dandelion Facts

 Dandelion is a widely distributed weed of the daisy family, with a rosette of leaves, bright yellow flowers followed by globular heads of seeds with downy tufts, and stems containing a milky latex. • Genus Taraxacum, family Compositae: several species, in particular the common T. officinale, which has edible leaves.

ORIGIN late Middle English : from French dent-de-lion, translation of medieval Latin dens leonis ‘lion's tooth’ (because of the jagged shape of the leaves