The best Christmas present ever!

Two years ago Puente gave me the best Christmas present ever. He gave me a project. That man knows what I like. I love a good project. Something fun.

Now let me give you a little background story. It is the fall of 2012, and I have dragged Puente with me thrifting. He is always so sweet to go with me. He says he likes it. And I think most of the time he does. Anyway we are at a thrift store looking around and I see this little china cabinet. It’s an ugly yellow, and dirty. Like it had been in someone’s basement or garage. And I tell him how much I like the shape of it. The curve on top, the glass doors and shelves, the molded doors on the bottom, the big tacky handles. He just looks at it. Waits a minute, then asks how I would change it. I start talking about paint colors. Yes when I first saw this baby, I could see it in many colors. But I said what it really needed was to be cleaned. He didn’t say much else about it and we moved on. We left that day empty handed. I didn’t need a china cabinet, I was getting a house ready to sell.

Along come the holidays. We are busy with work. My kids go to visit their dad. We decide we are not going to celebrate until they come home. It’s a Saturday, we are getting ready for the day. We need to pick the kids up from the airport in a couple of hours. I am in the bathroom, brushing my teeth. Puente tells me I have to stay in the bathroom. I just look at him. “Okay…” Then I hear the dogs barking, and talking. Puente tells me I can come out now. I walk out to the front room, with my toothbrush still in my mouth. And there she is. I can’t believe it. It had been 2 or 3 months since we had seen her. So sweet that man.