I want to start something a little new. We'll see how long it lasts I'm sure I don't stick to my guns on this one. Especially in three short weeks I'm starting student teaching!!! So I'm sure I'll have my hands full. However, there are so many things that I love or couldn't live without. Some vintage and some new, so I think maybe on Tuesday's I'll try and share.
My first treasure is sad to me and I can't stop thinking about it. I haven't ever talked about my Great Grandma Malee (Marie) on here but she's been a huge inspiration in my life.* I have a lot of her things from when she died that I've either stole from my Mom or was left for me to have. The first and most favorite thing I ever got from her was my Bell Necklace. I'd show you a picture but I lost it about a month ago. It was one of the worst days of my life. My friend and I were heading to run some errands for a project after class and I realized it was not on my neck. I went back to campus and retraced every step I made that day. I called Cy Ride for weeks asking if anyone had turned it in. I called Lago for weeks and checked every lost and found in the whole place (there are 5). It was gone. I had to let the necklace go.
Threw tears telling my Mom I had lost the necklace and saying how my life was over (a little dramatic I know). My mom began to tell me about her Dad who dies when she was 9. She had lots of his things also and still does. She said she used to wear his wedding band and did for years. When she was in high school she was playing Frisbee and when she threw the Frisbee the ring went. She said they searched for hours even rented a metal detector (you see where I get my craziness from) to find the ring. They never found it. She said she thinks it was for a reason that she needed to let it go, needed to be happy for the time she got with her Dad and just remember and love him forever. Those things are just worldly things and don't mean anything when you get down to it. Which is true my Mom's Dad loved her and she him. I loved and love my Great Grandma and a ring or a necklace mean nothing as much as the love and relationship mean.
I think the same goes with God we love and have a great relationship with Him we don't need all these worldly things to prove it.
Anyways I have some pictures of me wearing the necklace! I tear whenever I see old pictures with it because I miss it so much. It was definitely a treasure! I'm grateful for it :)
Sorry this one was downer :) Treasure those small little gifts they can mean the world some day to someone!
Just the bell in this picture. (BTW this is one of my besties Vanessa :)
You bet I wore it to Dam to Dam**
I also had a long chain Jono got me last year for Christmas that said Proverbs 31
(maybe I'll get it again for Christmas wink)
Here it's hidden but the J but it's there :)
This picture is really nasty ha ha
* My Grandma was a Diva pretty much. I was inspired by her White Cadillac with "Fur" seats. Also her Louis Vuittons... I didn't get any of them I wish! She was totally the Diva of Churdan Iowa and now Grandma Connie has pretty much taken over that! IF you know her!
** I remember the day I lost it thinking how did it just fall off my neck when I ran the entire 12.2 or whatever miles of Dam to Dam and I never lost it. Frustrating.
Have a stinking awesome TUESDAY I know I am
Love you all
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