To keep in mind the very first day of year 44.
Whenever something great happens, I pick up a rock. then I bring it home.
It’s a bit ritual I utilize to assist me keep in mind special moments in my life, as well as I have rocks from around the world.
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Including Spain! I chosen them up off the ground in a small town in Spain on the day El Hub asked me to marry him. funny story: Those rocks nearly didn’t make it back to California, since on that exact same trip, after we left Spain, El Hub as well as I took a old, slow-moving overnight train to Portugal, where I packed up the rocks as well as a few other mementos into a flimsy cardboard box, which we shipped from a Lisbon publish office.
At the last moment before taping up the box, I wrapped the contents in a thin sea foam eco-friendly floral maxi gown I got at an H&M in Spain (This was before the chain had shown up in the U.S., as well as their clothes were extremely exotic to me.), just in situation the box ripped open.
It’s a great thing I did since that box didn’t show up in California for a lot more than a month after we returned from Europe. I’d quite much provided up on seeing any type of of those mementos once again up until the box, damaged as well as split at the corners, showed up on our doorstep one day.
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Somehow, thanks to a bit of shipping luck as well as that protective sea foam eco-friendly dress, whatever was still in the box, including my rocks.
Oh! — as well as I likewise have a red rock I chosen up from the front of the OB-GYN’s office on the day I saw Connor’s heartbeat on the ultrasound the extremely very first time. The rock reminds me of exactly how delighted as well as absolutely terrified I felt when I saw that teeny, small white blip on the screen. I wondered, was this my only possibility to have a child? as well as would she make it past the hazardous very first few weeks? (Even on that day, I understood she was going to be a girl. Don’t ask me how, however I did.)
The polished eco-friendly beauties at the top are the most recent additions to my collection, gathered from Moonstone beach on the morning of my 44th birthday after I completed a jog along the beach.
Now they’ll always remind me of beachcombing as well as exactly how loosey-goosey I felt after that run. They’ll go on my windowsill for a few months, as well as after that, into the special box where I keep the rest of my rocks!
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How about you? Do you have any type of memory rituals? bit things you do to keep in mind meaningful events?
Your friendly community appeal addict,
Karen