I promised another Christmas memory by today, didn't I?As our family gathers together here in Queen Creek, there's a part of us missing. Sean, Ashli and Ethan stayed in Wichita this year. We miss them but have already talked with them on the phone. So this Christmas memory is about Sean.
One year Mary's parents were spending a few months with us. Historically they had given the kids pencils with their names on them. It was a big joke that they always misspelled Sean's name as "Shaun" or "Shawn" or some other variation. This particular year there was a very large present with a card that read "To Sean from Grandma and Grandpa Jarboe".
The story was that they felt really bad about spelling his name wrong on the pencils all these years and this gift was to make up for it. It drove his older brother nuts.
On Christmas morning Sean tore open the wrapping paper to reveal a set of golf clubs. He profusely thanked Grandma and Grandpa for the gift and they apologized for spelling his name wrong on so many pencils for so many years.
Eventually Sean told his brother that he'd bought himself the golf clubs and had grandpa write the card. So, they sat wrapped in our living room rather than traveling the local courses because Sean got as much pleasure, if not more, from agitating his brother than he did from golfing.
Anyway, a whole new batch of memories are headed our way. That's Mary Addie Elizabeth the first on Santa's lap. Yeah, I took the photo....... I know what you're thinking. First a tree, now this?!?!?
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