If you remember in my earlier post about my nana’s angels I had decided to start my own collection. Because I am 33 years behind I anticipated on taking about two years to collect them. Not only that some of them cost upwards of $200 each. Ebay is how I was going to get them and how I had gotten the few that I already had. On Christmas Eve the first gift I opened from my mom was one of the angels. She knew I wanted to start collecting them so I didn’t think much of it. The second one was as well. Then I opened a box that had about eight angels in it. Then it dawned on me and I started to cry. My mom wasn’t with us on Christmas Eve this year. She was in Florida helping take care of my Pepe this being the first Christmas without my Nana.

My mom got me the entire 33 years of the angels. Every one. She spent hours and hours on ebay and now I learn she was bidding against me at times to win some of the angels to be able to give them to me as a gift. The only one I am missing is 2006 which is VERY hard to come by is it was their 30 year anniversary but my mom has found one since she has been in Florida and will be bringing it home to me to complete my set! ***great big smiles***

I’m not the only one. My sister heard of my idea and decided to get one of my Nana’s angels for each of the years that her kids were born…just six, knowing that collecting all 33 would be too expensive. So, she got onto ebay in the past few weeks and got her six. Just her way of having a little piece of Nana’s angels I guess. My mom did the same for her as well. All 33.

My brother’s wife as well. My baby brother’s fiance’ too.

Thank you, mother for the best gift I have ever received. I love you for it.