Nineteen Years Ago Today - Christmas Eve in 2006

It's Christmas Eve 2025 as I write this, and seems to be a good time to post it, although I probably gave this to Mark much earlier.  I still have this ornament on my tree:

And of course there was a little gift card to go with it, and of course he kept it:

This is the post about his gift that inspired this ornament:  https://abt-unk.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-25-2006-another-early-birthday.html

I wrote the following about Christmas Eve 2006 in my online journal:

Christmas Eve was very nice. We opened our gifts since we were going to be gone all the next day. We gave Eric* an MP3 player (Creative Zen 1GB), Napster gift card, and an extra set of Skullcandy ear buds, plus a couple little things (like a Tervis mug with our county courthouse emblem). We'll be going out shopping later this week, for some new (size 16) shoes, among other things.

I got Breathless all sorts of little stuff, some of which were things I wanted too, like a rain chain. I gave him his big gift back in November, a model ship** he wanted from the Blue Moon Gallery in Grapevine.

Breathless got me a beautiful necklace of silver and malachite [and painted jasper] with matching earrings,*** and a black Coach leather bag. Breathless got me a brown leather Coach bag about 25 years ago that I'd kept and used mainly for special occasions over the years, but I've been using it daily for nearly a year now, so it is nice to have an alternate.

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* My son Eric was visiting for the holidays.  We went to Austin on Christmas Day to visit my family there, his grandparents and my siblings, his aunts and uncles, and his cousins.  Today I'll just be seeing my siblings.

**  The link to the photo of the ship (which is also pictured in my last post) reminded me that one of my other gifts to him was a base for an old clock that had belonged to his father, which you can also see in the photo.  I still have all of these, and I'm still using the rain chain, alhough it's been moved to the left of where it is in this photo from 2019:

*** More about this necklace in a future post.

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