A Treasure

I am cleaning my house. Spring cleaning. Early. It feels great. You should see my bedroom. It is amazing. So, since I finished that it was on to the laundry room. In there I had shoved 3 boxes of old piano and organ music we inherited from Eric's grandparents when we inherited their organ. I decided to go through it and see if I wanted to keep any of the music. I shuffled through every page and found a couple good things. I put the rest of the box by the growing DI pile. Later on CharlyAnn found the box, and you know babies, they love to play with paper. She started emptying out the contents piece by piece--something I had already done once. But then out of the box came a manila envelope that said "Don Carter" on it (Eric's Grandad). I opened it and found this: A collection of daily love notes until the day Grandma retired from Granddad. What a TREASURE!! I wanted to call the Smithsonian or something. Look at this antique proof of love in America. I am now fully confident that Eric inherited his romantic goodness.
As you can see Grandad also attached little gifts with these daily poems. Thread, soap bars, on the other pages he also gave her 7 needles, 18 dimes, 6 pantyhose, 17 scrubbing pads (welcome to retirement?!), 13 bobbins, 12 bags of popcorn, day 1 (the retirement)ended with one $15 gift certificate to the store.
Another favorite poem was with 4 days to go:
"A symbol of my girl's sweet light"
The world is lit by these small bulbs of light/But my world is lit by the very sight/Of the pretty girl who is the queen of my house/And the fact that I'm her ever lovin spouse. 4 light bulbs for day 4.

A TREASURE!! I just love the miracle of it's appearance since I had gone through the box CharlyAnn magically summoned this from later. Eric's grandparents have both passed away during our marriage, and I am certain that they are together now sharing beautiful moments like this every day in the eternities!