A Daily Thing

For Christian’s birthday I enlisted a nursery owner to help me make a small terrarium.  It has so far beaten the odds in our house and survived, even though I take care of it to some extent.
What it is also doing is sprouting teeny mushrooms, non stop.
The first one I spotted made me run to Christian – terrarium in hand – and point excitedly while repeating ‘Look look look look look!’  A perfect miniature little mushroom!
Christian on the other hand wasn’t that excited and said ‘Get rid of it’.  Why?!!  Because if you don’t mushrooms will take over the whole thing.

With a heavy heart I uprooted it with a little spoon, marvelling at how ‘mushroomy’ it smelt before throwing it away.  I did have a second’s hesitation and thought I could maybe eat it.  The look on Christian’s face quickly let me know what he thought of that idea.

Since then, we can’t get a break.  Mini mushrooms just keep on appearing and appearing – and they all get the little spoon treatment – but that doesn’t stop ‘em.
What’s worse, the latest two have started to band together.  I am giving them one more day to unfold their plan.  After that, they’ll have to say hello to my little spoon.