Sunshine flowers

A couple of days ago we were driving somewhere and the boys were in the back seat of the car arguing about something (not an uncommon thing with them), so I asked them what the problem was, Taevin said that Ryler was calling the flowers on the side of the road "sunshine flowers" and that he was wrong because they were really called sunflowers. I explained to Taevin that he was correct, however Ryler could call them whatever he wanted.
Yesterday, we stopped on the side of the road and picked a few sunshine flowers to take home.
School is starting tomorrow and although I won't miss the constant bickering, I'll miss the time in the sun my kids and I have spent together, and to preserve the memory, perhaps tomorrow I'll go out and get me a huge bouquet of sunshine flowers.

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