I don’t think I already shared this:
The lady who bought my Grandparents house a few years ago contacted my mom. She opened a cabinet in the basement and found a box of Christmas decorations! The lady next door to her has lived there since my mom was a teenager so she got the box from the lady and mailed it to my mom. It came last week sometime.
There was a fancy doll like Santa in a green robe. And some Garland decorations and odds and ends. No one knows how that got left behind and unseen all this time. But really this is the perfect year to have those things of Gram’s come back to us. She’s on the lookout for my childhood bear that went missing there too. Maybe Louie is waiting there for me still.
I also got to talk to my other Grandma briefly today. She is 102 with dementia and doesn’t talk like she used to (constantly!) so it was nice to hear her voice and wish her an early Merry Christmas. I was setting up to make pizzelles when they called and my Aunt is the pizzelle queen who coached me on it when I started. So that was also nice timing. It was just nice to hear family’s voices. Normally I text with one cousin and call my dad. So the phone call was great!
The lady who bought my Grandparents house a few years ago contacted my mom. She opened a cabinet in the basement and found a box of Christmas decorations! The lady next door to her has lived there since my mom was a teenager so she got the box from the lady and mailed it to my mom. It came last week sometime.
There was a fancy doll like Santa in a green robe. And some Garland decorations and odds and ends. No one knows how that got left behind and unseen all this time. But really this is the perfect year to have those things of Gram’s come back to us. She’s on the lookout for my childhood bear that went missing there too. Maybe Louie is waiting there for me still.
I also got to talk to my other Grandma briefly today. She is 102 with dementia and doesn’t talk like she used to (constantly!) so it was nice to hear her voice and wish her an early Merry Christmas. I was setting up to make pizzelles when they called and my Aunt is the pizzelle queen who coached me on it when I started. So that was also nice timing. It was just nice to hear family’s voices. Normally I text with one cousin and call my dad. So the phone call was great!