Gifts and Gaps

We had our dear neighbors (Nancy and Jacqui) over for dinner the other night. They lived just above us and lost everything in the fire that hit our neighborhood. About a week ago, Jacqui picked up Holland and let her help her sift through the rubble that was once their home. Jacqui has been searching for her grandmother's diamond ring. While they did not find the diamond, Holland found all kinds of other treasures (a burned clock, some pieces of melted jewelry and some mis-shapen silver goblets). Jacqui did not want the "treasures", so Holland, Greer and Reese spent a good afternoon scrubbing and cleaning up the goods. Here's where the touching part comes in, Holland and Greer took the two nicest pieces of salvaged jewelry (picture two stone - like pendants) and made a beaded necklace out of each of them. One for Nancy and one for Jacqui. They wrapped then up and were so excited to present their "memory" necklaces to the women. It was really quite sweet. As if that wasn't exciting enough, Greer's long-time loose front tooth decided to steal the spotlight and make a very bloody entrance at dinnertime.

We're all about making memorable memories around here. Try saying that 10 times fast!