What do bees and infants have in widespread?

What do infants and bees have in widespread? They do not learn the identical books as me.

Our queen bee arrived on July 20. We named her Constance Amelia Maund. She is about three months previous right here and staring on the daylight by means of the bushes for the primary time.

As you might have guessed, I’ve been on ‘bee maternity depart’ since then.

You see, I learn a lot of child books earlier than she arrived however threw them out not lengthy after. Constance clearly hadn’t examine ‘the routine’. As a substitute, I caught to Dr. Spock’s reassuring phrases and let child cleared the path. Dr. Spock is just like the Ted Hooper of the newborn guide world.

Like bees, infants additionally allow you to see the world by means of new eyes. Constance loves her pram walks. On gentle, autumn days we stayed out for hours trying on the daylight by means of the bushes and the colours of the autumn leaves. For me too, it was like seeing these items for the primary time and realizing how fantastic they had been.

Generally I might get her out of the pram and we’d stroll beneath the weeping willows in order that she may really feel the light branches sweep throughout her face and take a more in-depth have a look at the geese. She wasn’t certain concerning the geese.

After the hours went again, our walks turned shorter and our journeys to the library extra frequent – ​​an excellent alternative for Constance to see all these books she was presupposed to have learn.

She principally likes the touch-and-feel books, notably That is not my unicorn!.

Winter is right here now. I inform Constance a lot of tales to maintain her entertained on darkish December days, notably concerning the bees and the way they’re trying ahead to spring as a lot as we’re.

I do not know what our ‘routine’ will seem like subsequent yr. I hope to have a few Saturday afternoons right here and there to go to the apiary and convey again house extra tales from the opposite beekeepers to inform Constance.

Till then, I might prefer to want people and hymenopterans all over the place a really merry festive season.