You will never guess what my daughter-in-law brought to the track meet tonight with her. Besides Baby James in his darling little sandals.
No really, you will never guess. Because I couldn't believe my own eyes.
MY LONG-LOST PASHMINA SCARF! The one I received as a gift the morning we left Korea back in January.
I know I had it when I went to the hospital the day James was born almost three months ago, but I hadn't seen it since. I searched, I grieved, then I gave it up as lost and gone forever dreadful sorry Clementine. Lynn was so dear -- she shopped for a replacement one for me, and that was almost nicer than the original gift, because it was such a sweet gesture.
So I don't know how it suddenly resurfaced in Dave and Cerissa's back seat. These things happen to me all the time.
I went through a stamping phase a few years back. Not stomping -- stamping. And I lost a really handy little star stamp, which annoyed me to no end. MONTHS later .. maybe even a year... there it was one day, in plain view on the floor in front of my laundry chute basket. Where I would have seen it at least once every day, the way I'm constantly, obsessively doing laundry. I don't get it.
But let me assure you that when she handed me that scarf this afternoon? Oh , there was much rejoicing.
And also Garrison ran the 400 at his new personal best time. And the sun was out. AND I found out I get to have Lily for a week starting Friday!
The only downer of the day was Jason Castro's abyssmal performance tonight on Idol. What in the world. (If he wasn't so darned cute and charming...) I haven't been that uncomfortable watching anyone perform in quite a while. I'm so sorry. I know he's an Aggie, and I think he might be a Christian, but he was really Not Good.
Syesha and David A. were pretty incredible, I thought. I keep trying hard to love David Cook. Truly I do. I was honestly eager to see what he'd bring tonight since it's supposed to be his genre and all. But really? Were those the best songs he could come up with ? I have been listening to rock and roll for a verrrrry long time, and I have never heard that teenage wasteland song. I just thought it was a weird choice.
But overall the balance in my life is beginning to tip. Not a shabby way to temper the broken and unfixable iPod, the broken camera that Jim attempted to fix and ended up breaking further, and the scorched and smelly microwave.
The view from the pit is looking up.
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I certainly hope you still feel that way regarding my child AFTER you've had her for the week. The next plan is to leave them home with Jason and let you have ME for a week. :)
I'm happy that some happy things have occurred on your behalf lately. Here's to many, many more.
okay, I'm sorry I used your blog for a test comment. I'm experimenting with commenting identity linkage. A couple posts ago I signed in w/ the OpenID and it popped up with my name... but the past few times I've done so it has the onemorebabystep instead. I'm trying to figure out what I've done differently. Anyway, feel free to delete these comments at will-- and thank you for allowing me to use your blog for my experimentation. :)
Are you kidding me?!?! That's awesome! Now we need to see pictures of both Pashminas so I can see how close I came. Yeah! All good stuff today!
I'd love to post some pictures.....maybe some day.... if I ever get a camera again..... ~sigh~~
But Lynn, thank you SO much. Seriously. You have no idea how much that meant to me. Now I have TWO precious scarves with sentimental meaning.
Did you find that star stamp after my children were there and threw EVERYTHING they could find down the chute? I know that was awhile ago, but I had to ask...
So glad you found your scarf. The sneakers even "made an appearance". Did he take them back - confront the kid?
You do know I loved both of David Cook's performances right. I have unconditional love for him. LOL! I did like the 2nd song better though. "Baba O'Reilly" is from The Who. I've heard it on classic rock stations.
I think tonight is bye bye to Jason. It was just BAD.
I don't know, I don't get the whole "name" thing in the comments. For a while I was signing in w/ my google/blogger account, which was why it was showing up as Corie then. But then if you clicked on my "Corie" link it took you to my blogger page, which we all know I'm not using. So then that one day I tried out the "Open ID" thing and signed in under Wordpress, and it showed up as "Corie" and linked to my wordpress page, so I thought that was all hunky dory. But then the next time I did it was onemorebabystep. So who knows. I don't get it at all. I'm trying it again this time under wordpress and we'll see how it pops up today. But if not I'll just go back to the blogger one so it at least shows up as my name-- all just for you and the prettiness of your comment section. :)
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