Monday, January 12, 2009

I found it!

Quite a few years ago, when one of my brother's kids was being blessed (I'm not sure which one), my great grandparents came to the blessing in Washington. Sometime during the weekend I mentioned that I loved my sister's ring and it would be great if I could find one like it. My great grandpa who made jewelry offered to make a duplicate of the ring for me. So, we gave him Tia's ring and he said he would send us the original and the new ring. We didn't think it would really happen. I mean why would he waste his time on something so meaningless? But he did make it and send it to us. It was really sweet of him to do. Now, not only did I have this ring I liked so much, but it was made by my great grandfather, who I adored, and that made it even more special.
Recently he passed away, which of course got me thinking of where the ring was. I started looking for it. It was not in my main jewelry box. I started looking everywhere I may have left it, travel bags, other jewelry boxes, my backpack from school at BYU-I and I couldn't find it anyway. I was really upset, because it was the only thing I had left of him.
This weekend I finally cleaned out the trunk of my car, which had a couple of boxes of my stuff from my parents house (there are still many more to bring out of there). While I was going through everything and throwing stuff away, I was looking through one of my other jewelry boxes, and I found the ring! I was so excited. I usually only wear two rings, my ctr ring and my wedding ring, but now I plan on adding a third ring to wear all the time. I don't want to lose what I have left of my amazingly sweet great grandfather. I miss you and I love you Grandpa Godfrey.

1 comment:

Courtney said...

I want to see your ring..take a picture and post it