Michelle,  Whenever I treat myself to flowers it's always the sunflowers.  They are a breath of sunshine!  Everybody should treat themselves to this pretty perk-me-up!

When you do buy yourselves flowers you need to do something before you put them in that vase.  You have to have the vase ready with water in it.  Then put a little water in your kitchen sink.  hold the stem under the water and cut the tip of the stem off.  When flowers are cut they seal themselves over and you need to open that stem up so water can get up into them.  Otherwise, your flowers are going to shrivel up quickly!  So cut off the tip and immediately put it in the vase of water.