On the 2nd day... (sappy crap included)

[bolton carley]

On the second day of Christmas, they talk turtle doves, and I’m not gonna lie, my first thought is always of the movie, Home Alone, and Macaulay Culkin sharing his bird in eternal friendship.

 

Fascinatingly enough, my second thought is of my grandmother and grandmother-in-law that happened to travel in the same circles. They apparently ordered from the same catalogs or attended the same card club Tupperware-Candle-lite-Pampered Chef-type Christmas ornament party back in the 1970’s. Long ago at age 5, I received a flat, brass angel ornament carrying a jingle bell engraved with my name on it that, well, I thought was slightly uglier than homework over winter vacation.

 

Two years ago, my husband’s grandma moved to assisted living and shoveled her fine, quality “cast-offs” (read as “shit”) onto all the grandkids. There, in the bottom of a box, was the same heinous angel engraved with my husband’s name, but somehow it went from every-grandma's-taste-is-ugly to sentimental-Hallmark-moment-beauty now prominently displayed side-by-side with mine on our Christmas tree like two turtle doves fated to everlasting love.

[bolton carley]

there's hope, angela! :)

[Angela]

I have that ornament, too (only it was given to my daughter and she refuses to accept it)!  I am so glad it has taken on a better value for you.  Hers sits in the bottom of a box, hoping year after year that it will be allowed to breathe some fresh air.

[Bill Floyd]

Well, dang, that's even better than the first one.  And the line "uglier than homework over winter vacation" is pitch perfect.  Sappy is good when it's done with heart.   

[bolton carley]

sorry, mike - there will be more fun throughout the series.  i promise. :)

cita - thank you.  i appreciate those words more than you know!

brittany - love to make you happy! :)

[Brittany]

love it!

[Cita]

Ok, so sappy stuff aside, that really is a good piece of writing. 

[Mike Handley]

You warned me ... ;-)