Time Flys...

My, how time flys 

Christmas/New Year’s letter still aren’t sent and it’s already March with the Easter bunny on the way…. In Feb., my neighbor Carol Bramwell and I visited the new Draper Temple, then into March - attended the BYU’s Family History Technology workshop, walked a couple of miles in Salt Lake City's St. Patrick’s Day parade, my sister Jane packed up and moved to Denver to accept a regional position with the Veteran’s Administration system, me gone 6 days to see my granddaughter Aimee in Washington DC, where I also helped conduct some business for the American Clan Gregor Society. And here I was wondering if I was a mostly a slacker… maybe not?

Now it is girls’ weekend to supposedly get some scrapbooking and journaling done. I have to keep reminding myself that we are sort of on vacation and if we don’t jump right to the task at hand, but watch TV and snack a lot instead, it’s OK . Becky has already blogged a bunch about the girls’ weekend so I don’t need to get into that. See http://randomlyoddbits.blogspot.com/

Smarter Than a Two Year Old?

So, what'cha gonna do? You have loaned your favorite bracelets to your two year old granddaughter so she can amuse herself while she visits you, tries on the costume jewelry necklaces, and fills a couple of fingers with CTR rings, then dances around the living room, with three visiting neighbor kids. Later, when it is time for her to return to Wyoming, only one bracelet is to be found - the Austrian glass trade beads from Jamestown, Virginia trip with my sister Jane. But not the ropes of silver strands one. So you ask the two year old, and her 7 year old sister, and they smile, but that's not the right answer....

So after the kids leave, and you are cleaning up, shaking out the bedclothes to wash sheets, and looking under the beds, giving those corners of the playroom a dose of your eagle eye, you think - oh relax, it is only a bracelet.... Yes, but it was a favorite. I don’t even remember how long I have had it - maybe purchased in Sheridan, Wyoming at Kraft's Jewelers when I bought some other Indian jewelry a long time ago. Buck up, just go get another one. But (in a whiney voice) it has been fun to wear it every day, reminding me that I am retired and no longer have the "no jewelry" restriction of working at the hospital and wearing scrubs.

Well, tomorrow is Sunday and I should vacuum one more time down here where the kids were playing and eating potato chips. Becky said something about Connor hiding his baby sister Emma's binky clip in one of his toys. You know how it is when you have to move toys to get the crud out from under them - surely not, but let's look in the trunk of the riding car. Glory Be! What is that shiny thing sticking out of the pencil case?? Halleluiah! It is my bracelet! LOL! I just had to take a photo :-)







Bracelets reunited :-) the third one with the magnets clasp is one Jane gave to me last fall on our way to join all those MacGregors in Georgia and Tennessee. The stone is buttermilk amber, traditionally from the Black Sea in Europe, and the silver is from spoon handles, made by Jane's friend Karen.



This is almost as good a mystery solved as the binky found hidden deep under the rigging in the Don Cox saddle, not to mention the plastic cell phone in the saddle bag.

Maybe if my brain was wired like a two year old, I'd get a lot more fun out of life! LOL