Little Delinquents

Be aware--- this is a very BITTER post!!

Okay....... so first off, I LOVE flowers and tulips use to be my favorite when I was a kid. (probably because they were the only ones I could draw... but that is besides the point) the Point is, I always wanted tulips but we never had them growing up. When we moved into this house I just knew I wanted a row of gorgeous tulips. So I planted them... and with having to remove a stupid rock every inch and a half, it took me about 3 hours to do.

Then I waited...... until one glorious late February day, I saw a few little heads peeping out of the frozen ground. Everyday we'd check to see how many more were sticking out of the ground. We even removed snow off of some of them so they could come out and see the world.

Then we waited. Slowly, ever so slowly they grew. Everyone else around us seemed to have their tulips out already but ours were being very slow.

Finally, on May 2nd one blossomed! (I found it a good omen for Cinderella since that was opening night)
Saturday about 3 more bloomed and then by yesterday there was a the whole right half of the row bloomed. On the way home from church I told Luke I wanted to take pictures of our family in front of them in a few days when the rest of the row was bloomed.
Well..........

About an hour later I went outside to find that EVERY LAST flower that had bloomed was gone. All 15 were cut off! I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo mad! And I had a very good idea as to who had done it.

So we walked past the neighbors 3 houses down and guess what we found. A whole pile of them in their stroller. These neighbor kids run around all the time and are constantly on our sidewalk riding their bikes. They even rode their bikes OVER my baby tulips a few weeks ago. So I moved our security system sign into the way where they rode through........ and they STOLE MY STUPID SIGN! I didn't know it was them for sure until a few days later I was driving past their house when one of the little kids was playing with our sign in her driveway. I slammed on my breaks and jumped out to say "That's mine!!!".......... the best part is that I had just come from taking those pictures for the Cinderella poster, so they thought a princess was taking her sign back..

Needless to say, these little girls about ages 2-7 blamed it on their cousin. Then last night when I found the pile of tulips, I told their dad who was on the porch that those were all our flowers and we didn't appreciate them being stolen. Again, the girl blamed it on her littlest sister (after she had told us she didn't know anything about it) What a little liar. Then, not to be racist or anything, but they are Hispanic so they were speaking in Spanish to each other so who knows what was actually said...

AnywayI was furious. And am still furious! And heatbroken!!!! More than half of our row of tulips are cut and won't bloom again until next year. So much for having my perfect row of tulips lining the entire fence line. *sigh* Why? Honestly, WHY?!

I wish I had taken a before picture.... that whole row was in full gorgeous bloom yesterday.