Finding a special message hidden within a drawer of note cards
My greeting card drawer contains note cards without matching envelopes, boxes of envelopes minus their cards, and postage stamps with no cash amount so I don’t know if they are 25-cent stamps from long ago or recent more expensive ones. Scattered among them are birthday cards that I bought in advance, forgot I had, and replaced with new ones.
One that reads “Happy birthday to my grandson who is turning 10″ won’t do it now that he’s in college.
At the back of the drawer is my mother’s large greeting card envelope with the wide scalloped flap covered with violets. It has file slots for each month of the year. Each one is filled with birthday cards for mom’s family and friends for that month. There are also anniversary and other special occasion cards – some so special I had no idea what they were.
“For someone who is always late,” read one.
“I knew you could do it,” another said.
My mother had carefully respected the identity of the intended recipients of these cards leaving me to wonder who was late or what exactly it was that she knew someone could do. Fascinated by her organization as juxtaposed against my mess, I decided to put Mom’s greetings into action.
On one of her birthday cards that was intended for a friend who has already joined her in Heaven, I wrote a note to the daughter saying how much her mother’s friendship meant to my mom, and this was the birthday card that she had intended to send.
What really got my attention was the elegantly simple card that read, “For Someone Special.” It did not indicate an occasion and left no clue for whom it was intended. Did my mother, who lived 40 of her 101 years as a widow, have someone special that I didn’t know about?
I hope so.
My plan to turn the contents of my messy drawer into neat little piles did not happen, but I did manage to organize current postage stamps into an envelope that had no matching card size. I will save them to send out my mother’s greetings at later dates as I figure out who they were meant for.
Thanks for the puzzle, Mom. I am enjoying fitting the pieces together.
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