For March is Reading Month, this year the Mackinac Island Public School is celebrating March is Math Month by reading a different math book every day. Earlier this week we read David M Schwartz's If You Made a Million.
The kids had a great time interpreting "Dress Like a Million Bucks" day. I thought about my Grandma, who I remembered always looked like a million bucks. I paid homage to her by wearing one of her beaded jackets and her charm necklace*. Oh yes, and I gave all the kids $100 bills with my face on them. Too fun.
My grandma had a huge charm bracelet, full of charms my grandfather had given her over their years together. At some point her collection became too big for a bracelet and was redone as a necklace. (She had so many charms, some of them still wouldn't fit.) Each charm has a story behind it; where it came from or what was commemorated by it. Before she died, I asked my grandma to write down the "story" of each charm - and I'm so glad I did.
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When my great-aunt was preparing her will she asked all of us what we wanted from her. All I wanted from my great-aunt was her charm bracelet. I loved her and I loved it and I loved the stories too!! Your grandmother's necklace is lovely!!!! ...it isn't worth a million bucks! It is priceless!
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