You Are A Treasure

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This old gal…

Couldn’t find the Flirt recipe in her grandmother’s recipe file…but what she did find…was even better…
Treasures…unique treasures…unique family treasures…

Memo papers highlighting an uncle’s promotion from cashier to Vice President of the First National Bank…

Goodies from favorite great aunts Effie…Georgie…Len…a postcard from that mother of mine with a recipe scrawled on back…

Brine for coon…sauerkraut recipes…a note telling of a ride to Washington, Iowa…Washington, IOWA…as if the driver needed to be clear they weren’t traveling to Washington State or Washington DC for the day…

And then the clincher…the heart squeezer…that calendar piece from 1966…Christmas Day…a child’s writing…can’t make it out…a wish list perhaps…

That brother of mine…kindergartener…left behind to finish school…his mother and siblings moving out of town when the marriage ended…

Those grandparents of ours taking him in…offering stability…security and most likely telling Santa what to put under that little boy’s Christmas tree…

Because that’s the kind of people they were…caring…loving…full of one of a kind down to earth goodness…

Just like some other grandpa this old gal just happens to know…
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And those daughters of mine…agree…