How odd is this?

[JerseyJanice]

Last Thursday, we discovered that a few gift cards my son received for his birthday are missing. They add up to $150, so we've been digging around the house all weekend trying to find them.

I was just putting some laundry in one of my drawers and found a little pile of papers in it. I pulled them out to look through them in case the gift cards got tucked in there somehow.

I didn't find the gift cards, but I did find a Christmas card from an aunt who is now deceased. What's unusual about that is that I almost never save Christmas cards. I can't imagine now what I was thinking two years ago that made me tuck this one away.

My aunt, who was my father's older sister, had cancer back then (Christmas '03), but didn't tell anybody outside of her immediate family. She didn't want her siblings or nieces and nephews to know about it. Her children (my cousins obviously) respected her desire for privacy about her condition, and I did not know she was dying when I got this card from her.

She passed away in March 2004. How odd to find something from her all this time later. And how unusual it is that I saved my last piece of correspondence with her, not knowing that it would be the last.

 

[Blondie]

Isn't it strange how things work out like that sometimes?

My dad's birthday is coming up on November 3rd. It's going to be hard to pass by that section of the cards this year.

 

[JerseyJanice]

Oh, Kathy. {hug} Your pain is still so raw.

How are you doing? How's your mom?

 

[Blondie]

Oddly enough, my mom is doing better than I am!

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I saved a grocery list that my mom gave me about a week before she died. I used the do the shopping for her and I found the list in the bottom of my purse a few months after she died.

 

[halestrm]

Isn't it strange how things work out like that sometimes?

My dad's birthday is coming up on November 3rd. It's going to be hard to pass by that section of the cards this year.

Nov 3 is my b-day, as well as a dear friends who has passed. I will toast your father along with my friend that day, as well as seen you some positive thoughts.

I still buy my brother a card on his b-day. I take it to his grave and place it with his wreath.

 

[luvwinnie]

Janice, so glad that you DID save that card.

Blondie, I am so so sorry for your loss. My mom past away July 2004 and it is still so hard. That's a beautiful photo in your signature.

 

[Blondie]

Finding lists, cards, etc. may be a coincidence, but I like to think of them as little visits, letting us know that they are always with us.

 

[luvwinnie]

Blondie, I totally agree with you.