box your ears

While getting ready for church on Sunday, I decided that I needed to wear a gold necklace with the outfit I had picked out. I don't typically wear gold...I'm more of a silver/platinum kind of girl. Back in high school, I wore quite a bit of gold though, so I got out my little jewelry box to dig through and find something gold.

I decided on a gold necklace, and then rooted around for some gold earrings to wear with it. Only I didn't have any! Not a single pair in that box...but then I remembered! Tucked away, in a little pouch, were these gold box earrings, above.

I had to smile.

I have had these box earrings since I was very young. Probably from right around the time I got my ears pierced. But the reason that I smiled was because these earrings were a gift from my grandpa Al...when I was little, he would always tell me that he was going to "box my ears"...and then he gave me these little box earrings too.

I love these little memories...