A few years ago I wrote about a phenomenon that I called our "anniversary curse"--it seems something always happens on Jason and my anniversary to "ruin" our day--or at least cast some type of shadow over it.
This year it made for a good story. . . .
Jason had told me a few times that he'd got something really special for me as an anniversary gift. When December 19 came, he went to get the present from its hiding place . . . and it was GONE, except for an empty bag from the store where he'd bought the gift.
Since the present had been hidden under our bed for almost a month, he searched underneath and all around--pulling out long-forgotten items that were covered with dust, but not finding the gift.
Next, Jason questioned each of the kids, thinking maybe one of them had found the gift and played with it--but nobody had any information to share. Jason even asked me if I had come across anything that might look like a present, but I had not.
Finally, Jason told me the gift was a keepsake ornament from Hallmark that I'd told him I had really liked. I started looking again through our room, but we couldn't find it. I suggested that Jason call Hallmark to see if it had dropped out of the bag while he was at the mall, and someone had returned it.
Jason eventually tried this, but nothing had turned up.
Then--it had been a couple of hours of searching by this point--he called back to see if the store had any of the ornaments left, and the person working said there was ONE. Jason put it on hold, then went to buy it for the second time.
He came home with the ornament, and--of course--I really loved it. It had a little battery to install, though, and I asked Jason where he kept his little screw drivers.
He opened his drawer and lifted up some socks to get to the tools that he kept at the back . . . and there was the original ornament he had bought.
The ladies at Hallmark had a good laugh at his expense when he took the second ornament back--probably less than half an hour after he'd bought it (one of them had said he'd definitely find the first one as soon as he'd bought the second).
And I think it all turned out better than if nothing unusual had happened!
There's nothing like having a great story to tell--and I'm sure this one will come up year after year when we take out the ornament to hang on our tree :)
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