Trees are our friends...

But they won't drive you to the airport.

Christopher and I have wanted to plant trees in May's honor. We talked about doing so for years before she was born -- on the assumption that we'd have a house when we had a baby. Since that's not the case, we're continuing to outsource our parenting and we're going to have friends and family plant the trees.

We ordered them today from ArborDay.org. Two pears for Skip, two apples for Barb (two for pollination, you understand), two crabapples for Cathy, two dogwoods for Jack and Grace, a hawthorn for Kevin, and, for Nikki, an oak, an ash, and a 'thorn. (An obscure botanical joke! The celtic equivlent of making a garden composed only of parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.)

We'd like Seth and Steve to have trees, too, but they don't have space right now.

Here's the thing, though. Arbor Day is very generous. We're getting way way way more trees than that. We're also getting two redbuds, two golden rain trees, two forsythias, and a red maple.

So, does anyone want a tree in honor of May? Uh, please? They will all be coming right around the time to be handed out at Thanksgiving.