My grandmother loves to do puzzles. Every year, for I don't know how long, I have given her a puzzle for Christmas. In fact, it often is the first gift I purchase every year. Last year, I gave her a very large flag puzzle. It was designed to look old and was not only a flag, but had the name of each state on it as well. With Andrew being a history teacher, she had asked if we might like to have it put into a frame and have it to hang at our house. I was delighted! We had a wall that desperately needed something, and the fact that this was a gift to my grandmother and she had worked on it and given it back made it even more special. She gave it to us this summer and it's been hanging ever since.
I was thinking though, that I would love to have a large Christmas puzzle to hang in its place for the holidays. One had caught me eye in a catalog months ago, but I refused to justify the $15 cost. If I'm going to have the freedom to stay home and not have an income (other than my small church job) I must sacrifice material things. This isn't really a problem for me, but every time that puzzle would show up in a catalog, I would think again about how nicely it would look hanging in my living room. Finally last month, I received a coupon code that not only offered a discount, but free shipping as well! I purchased it along with some other gifts I'd been eyeing, and it arrived earlier this week.
The thing that excites me most is how excited Thomas is about all of this! He can't wait for us to sit and work on putting this together. We are going to set up the card table in our front room where it can be out of the way, and just leave it there so we can all work on it in our free time. I am so excited to have something that the family is excited about as well...what a great way to spend some time together, and that definitely makes it money well spent!
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