Little Treasures

Today on the way to class (which we were not told was cancelled till we got there), Sami and I were talking about Mrs. Ramey, who use to teach FACS in the Jr High. I brought up my 8th grade trip to Chicago, and talked about how Mrs. Ramey had fallen asleep in the Shed Aquarium. I'm sure there are several pictures out there floating around because we were all taking pictures of her asleep on the floor.

Thinking about the Chicago trip, made me think about Rachel Jones. Rachel stayed with me the night before the trip, as well as Melanie Lyon. Thing about Melanie was that we got her all jacked up on Mt. Dew that night, which meant none of us got much sleep. Haha.

Rachel and I were on different buses for the ride to and from Chicago because we had to be in alphabetical order, so I was on the bus with the S's. If I'm not mistaken, I sat with Jayme Smith.

Anyway, while in Chicago we ran around together, Rachel and I. We were both exhausted from the night before, so we didn't really do a lot looking around. We basically found benches to nap on in every museum we went in. And we kept singing this song that Megan Jenkins had sang as a solo at the choir concert. I don't remember exactly what the song was. I think it was something like 'Circle of Friends' by Michael W. Smith, but I'm not that is was actually that song. If that makes sense.

I've been thinking alot lately about some of the people I was close to in high school. I don't speak to any of them. That's false actually because I do speak to one, Emily Murphy. She's one of my best friends. All the same, people keep popping into my head. And to be honest, I'm not really sure what to do about that.

It's weird how little things that you remember can lead to remembering bigger things.

Today, I was looking through the Christmas Oriental Trading Company magazine, and came across this candy. They were suckers made of chocolate, which reminded me of this candy making kit that we use to have. Jennifer and I use to make candy when we were kids. So I'm sitting there looking at this, and I say something to Mom and Aunt Shawna about it, wondering if they remembered this stuff too. Mom knew what I was talking about.

Anyway, I kind of put it aside and we ate lunch, and I started talking about a cabinet in the kitchen that needed to be cleaned out. It hadn't been touched since we moved into this house 10 years ago. So after lunch I got in it and cleaned it out. Guess what I found. The molds for our candy making!!!

It's so cool. You can make the candy say different things or have different shapes. There is one of the blue things that have a dinosaur on it, so you can have a sucker with a dinosaur on it! Others say things like Merry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving, etc. I'm super excited about it!

I also found some Christmas cookie cutters with all of it.

It was like Christmas morning!

It's the little things in life that bring me the most joy.