The Forgotten Button

THE FORGOTTEN BUTTON 
I forgot to put a button in my pocket this morning. Amazingly, the darlings who were dropped off for school bus duty, forgot too. I realized it pretty early in the day and actually felt a little lonely without it. As U was coming back into town, 
I got a call to rescue Benjamin who was developing a cold and turned around to grab him from day care and take him with me to the green house til Momma could pick him up. A change in plan A , but doable. 
Oh what fun we had! We toured the greenhouse - me used to seeing it through the "lense" of the button, now seeing it through Benjamin's 2 year old eyes. We circled the hot stones of the frog pond that holds the water plants and found 2 froggies sitting in the sun and 2 on lily pads. One of the water lilies was fully open and a magnificently soft yellow bit of beauty next to the green slimy frog suit. Oh, joy. Ben poked at the frogs so he could watch them jump back into the water. Together, we pulled my wagons full of work stuff to my days work station. Sometimes Ben pulled, sometimes he rode in the wagon and sometimes he pushed. We ran through the very edge of the sprinkler circle to enjoy the tiny drops of refreshing mist without really getting wet.
In an hour his mother picked him up and the pup and I had the yard to ourselves. I had to finish the day lilies and get to the vines.
I thought about buttons as I plucked holey bug eaten leaves from vines, as I enjoyed the hidden clumps of color when I pulled trays of plants away from the clusters. I thought about the windows for fun. How unexpected changes in THE PLAN for the day bring joy.
It was a beastly hot day so I continued to play in the water. I sprayed the hose to make rainbows and to watch the patterns of water droplets on the shade house fabric, the thick, bushy hostas, the fine, feathery ferns, all the while listening to the music water makes as it splashes about and lands. Ahh, bliss. Button or no button it was a great day - Thanks Benjamin for getting me started on the path to fun in the greenhouse.