This year, we are here. We went shopping. We bought presents for our sisters and the kids of some friends. Yes, by golly, we even went to toy stores.
People ask us our plans for the holidays. Well, we live here in this big little town all by ourselves. We don't really have any plans. Triple S picked out what he wanted to eat for Christmas Eve dinner; I am working both Thursday and Saturday. We might even go see the new Sherlock Holmes movie (Triple S' favorite fictional character).
Triple S even wanted a tree this year, so out we went on Black Friday and bought an evergreen.
Since we so thoroughly skipped Christmas last year, we didn't have any ornaments for Serenity. I went to Things Remembered online, the only place I could think of that engraves anything, and bought this for 2009:
However, I also really wanted something from Serenity's year of birth. At the same time, I was tooling around on Etsy.
I found this, simple, almost stark, ornament:
from Bugaboo Jewelry and asked her to put a 2008 tag on it. The purple stone is for February.I also wanted a pea in the pod. I don't know why, I just really like these (I also have a necklace with three 'peas' all picked out on Etsy). I got this ornament:
from CyndesMinis, to recognize all three of the little peas that have been in this pod.I have also wanted to get a family ring for myself - the object for which I was originally searching on Etsy. I found something simple, and that I can easily add on to, hopefully in March or April 2010:
from BirkaScandinavian. I love the idea of a stacking ring set for a mother's ring (it is NOT like my mother's mother's ring). The red is Triple S' ruby, the purple is Serenity's amethyst, the yellow is my topaz, and the thin blank band is for the miscarriage last fall.These object make me happy, in a way. There is nothing profound to say about them, but I wanted to share them with you.
I wish you all peace and love this season.
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