Cache of the Day - The Ornament Exchange

One of our holiday traditions is around Taylor's birthday, which was this past Monday. After her 25 minute band concert at the high school, we went to the house and every family member brought a wrapped ornament. We drew numbers and each participant got to pick out an ornament in the order of the number that they drew. A certain amount of stealing went on as well. If it was your turn to draw and you liked a previously drawn ornament, you could steal that ornament in lieu of choosing a wrapped one.


Of course everyone tries to be clever with their ornament contribution, and there was a wide range of ornaments - ugly ones, beautiful ones, unusual ones, and ones that you just said "What IS that?".


I actually ended up with the ornament I brought - a delicate turtle dove that I wear in my hair. Here are some of the other ornaments as well.


Happy Birthday Taylor! I'm glad you were born!

Cache of the Day - Finding Lost Things

Everyone loses things, but I seem to be the biggest loser of all. Everyday - no kidding - I seem to lose something. Yesterday I lost my wallet while out to dinner, and some kind person found it and - identifying that I am a customer of Monroe Bank by my credit cards - put my wallet in the night deposit box of my bank. My bank called me today and let me know that they had it.

I had to laugh, because this is nothing unusual.

To show you how unusual this is not, I am starting a new side post, of everything that I have lost. I just need to keep track of these things.

Most of the things I lose I find, and that is the funnest part! Someone is watching out for me. And thank you to whoever found my wallet last night and rescued it!