We are home!
Dec. 28th, 2022 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. We had a really lovely Christmas, but it's good to be home. Nothing ever feels so good as sleeping in your own bed after the lovely time. LOL Sammy missed us mightily and has been very generous with the snuggles, but he was well taken care of by our friend who also did an excellent job of keeping our pipes from freezing and bursting during this absurdly cold weather.
2. My sister-in-law's mother died last Christmas. Every year her mother would buy her a piece of jewelry from the same jeweler. A couple months ago, SIL posted on her Facebook about missing her mother and knowing that this year that jewelry box wouldn't be under the tree. Just before we arrived at my mom's, SIL got a mystery box in the mail that had Don't Open until Christmas Day written on it in sharpie. She had no idea who had sent it to her. Turns out, the jeweler had seen her Facebook post and made her a necklace so she'd have that jewelry box under the tree. The necklace itself is one of those monogram necklaces with SIL's initials on a flat disc, but at the clasp, the jeweler put a quarter from SIL's mother's birth year that he edged with a kind of filigree of gold. It's beautiful and so thoughtful and unexpected; we all cried. What an incredible act of kindness.
3. I know that several of you have lost parents and grandparents over this Christmas season. I am keeping you all in my heart and sending you light and healing.
4. I got a postcard from someone postmarked in Richmond VA (Grit Kitty?), and I'm not sure who it is. Is it one of y'all?
5. Yuletide recs post forthcoming!
2. My sister-in-law's mother died last Christmas. Every year her mother would buy her a piece of jewelry from the same jeweler. A couple months ago, SIL posted on her Facebook about missing her mother and knowing that this year that jewelry box wouldn't be under the tree. Just before we arrived at my mom's, SIL got a mystery box in the mail that had Don't Open until Christmas Day written on it in sharpie. She had no idea who had sent it to her. Turns out, the jeweler had seen her Facebook post and made her a necklace so she'd have that jewelry box under the tree. The necklace itself is one of those monogram necklaces with SIL's initials on a flat disc, but at the clasp, the jeweler put a quarter from SIL's mother's birth year that he edged with a kind of filigree of gold. It's beautiful and so thoughtful and unexpected; we all cried. What an incredible act of kindness.
3. I know that several of you have lost parents and grandparents over this Christmas season. I am keeping you all in my heart and sending you light and healing.
4. I got a postcard from someone postmarked in Richmond VA (Grit Kitty?), and I'm not sure who it is. Is it one of y'all?
5. Yuletide recs post forthcoming!
