I Keep Losing My Car!

And that's a good thing. A year ago my newly-wed niece's husband left for Iraq. Niece #1 has had a lot of misfortunes in her young life. Her dad passed away when she was ten. Her mother was sickly, and she was a little Momma to her younger brother. She tried college, but it wasn't really for her.

Things started turning around. She found a good job, and she found A. They made plans to wed. However, he was in the Guards and his unit was called up. They had two weddings, a civil in June (in case of early deployment) and the planned one in August. (Whew, he was still here.) They had a couple of weeks after the second wedding, and then he was gone.

So I put this ribbon on my antennae as a reminder to keep both niece and A in my thoughts. On December 23, I removed it, as A was home for good. The pictures of their reunion, of A as he was wending his way through the crowd to find his sweetie, are right out of a movie.

But now I keep losing my car!

And that's a good thing.