it came back :D

Merry Christmas to one and all, guess what!!! I got two book shelves for Christmas... mmmm very glad... and in the re arranging my room I Found something I lost about two years ago. My grad ring! now some of you might not have that much attachment to your grad ring, or may not even have one, but the one I have is special!

This is the story...

It was winter and I was graduating from high school that summer. I really wanted a grad ring, super bad, and I knew my parents would not buy me one because they were buying my dress (fair enough). I was working Saturdays at the Salvation Army at the time and I counted up the possible hours I could work before I needed to pay for the ring. Rejoice there were enough hours! So i looked through the ring brochure picking out my ring. I wanted silver and my birth stone, something simple and pretty.
Very different from my costume jewelry, which I like big and sparkly!!!! :D

Some of my favorite rings and necklaces... see the fish and the disco ball ring?

Then I found it, the perfect ring, affordable and wholly desirable. So I put in the order and prepared to work my saturdays. Then a terrible thing happened, I did not get called in for one shift, not one hour... nothing! how was I supposed to pay for a ring with no money? I told a few of my fellow friend grads about my dilemma. but they were just as "tapped out" as I was. There was nothing I could do... could I return it?

At the time I lived in an apartment building called Harvest Heights, a somewhat run down establishment that needed a key to get into the building (thankfully lol). Underneath our, own, family home door I found an envelope. It was about a week before my ring would come in the mail. It was addressed to me in a typed note that read:

     "To Tamara, Enjoy your grad ring. From your Father in Heaven"

inside the envelope was about 3 dollars more than my ring bill would end up being! To this day I don't know who sent me that money. My parents were just as shocked as I was. :D
So I got my grad ring. I think of the ring as a present from God, He buys me jewelry, I'm his girl. :D

So you can see why loosing it would make me so sad and why finding it causes me to rejoice :D
Have a great new year every one,

Mary and Joseph and travelers in the Christmas play I directed in Switzerland last year.