Words

  

No joke, words can bring life or death.  Life to a friendship, death to a friendship.  I have the gift of gab but I am married to a man who listens well and it could be said he is a man of few words.  One thing that is great about not running your mouth all the time is that when you do say something it seems to mean more somehow. When Jason says something out of the blue that is kind or thoughtful it is great.  

We recently celebrated five years of marriage.  Where did those five years go?  I have been a little sentimental lately because of this milestone.  As a result I have been completing some some projects on the back burner in my brain that involve remembering those years and how it all started.  

Jason and I started dating in December.  My birthday is in February, so he didn't have very long to come up with something great.  But he did.  He bought me a gum ball machine.  He noticed that when leaving any store I would scan the gumball machines and always try to have a quarter or two on me.  He filled the gumball machine with gum of course but also with a bunch of little plastic containers that usually have little prizes in them.  Instead of prizes he put in little notes.  When I received the gift I was floored by his thoughtfulness.  I took it home and he gave me a bunch of quarters.  I used them slowly over the next few months.  I loved opening those notes.  It was a gift that I enjoyed for a long time.  I saved all those notes and a few years ago I pressed them in a book with the plan to frame them or display them someday. 

Here is what I came up with.  Finally. 

I found an old frame that I had laying around.  The glass broke in this frame so I was kind of at a loss of what to do with it.  I painted it.  Used some scrap book paper and just arranged the notes.  Kind of scrapbookish but I like it. 

Having these notes is a gift I will treasure for years to come.  Cheesy.  I know. 

Oh, and Walmart was where we went to get some alone time.  It was the only place in the small college town that we could get away from our roommates and not have to spend money.  

 
I have some other projects in the works.  I will share them as I complete them.