Gosh!  I wasn't home when the mail came today, so I found a little yellow 
card in my box.   I noticed Robin's name on the return address and so I just 
KNEW it was from my secret pal!  I quickly made my way into town to pick up 
my package and was I so happy I did! 
It has been a very stressful, but happy week here.  I got my divorce on 
Friday, after two years of fighting for it!  I was walking on air all 
weekend, happy to be free to marry my Ray at last!  I got the nerve up after 
14 days of looking at my material and pattern to cut out my wedding dress.  I 
am so pleased with my progress, it is constructed except for the zipper and 
hem and of course the embroidery.  I have been doing that at night :)  I am 
filing my father's taxes for the last 3 yrs.  GROAN... that is what I was 
working on when my package came....
I couldnt wait to open it!  I slit the tape with my keys and stood in the 
parking lot with my van door open... eating jelly beans!   I love Jelly 
ans!
I waited to get home before I pulled out the papers... Texas?  Hmmmmm who is 
in Texas.. anyway, when I started lifting out the paper, I found an adorable 
decopauged (how DO you spell that?) heart full of jelly beans!  Appears the 
ones I was sneaking on the trip home had escaped!  Also was an adorable 
little box, about the size of a quarter around with a bunny on top, so cute, 
I am putting my Engagement Ring in it in the bathroom when I shower, no more 
worrying about it going down the drain.. :)  But the most magnificent part of 
the package?  It was a brooch, HUGE.. Celtic Miracle Jewelry.  IT is round 
with pineapples about an Amber colored Stone.. one of my favorite stones! The 
broach is heavy silver and the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!  I put 
it on my jeans jacket as I left for my parenting meeting.. I got so many 
compliments on it and told them all it was from my Secret Pal from FidoNet.
I then of course had to explain what fidoNet was and hand out my business 
card for the BBS (GRIN.. What a way to get callers!)
Thank you so very much Secret Pal!  You made my April! I have eaten the jelly 
beans on my breaks from doing the Ribbon Embroidery on my Wedding dress.. Oh 
and the Name will be just Tami Cool, I wont be hyphenating after I marry.  I 
am very proud to be taking my husbands name.
- Tami
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