The Little Things

Well Christmas has been and gone, and it was pretty uneventful apart from one small thing, and when I mean small I mean small. My girlfriend and myself had put all of our unwrapped presents on the table in my lounge, as after Christmas passes we tend to write thank you notes to the people that gave us the presents, a little old fashioned, but very thoughtful.

I had actually taken some of my presents out of there boxes, and placed the empty boxes in the dinning room ready for recycling, and had actually thought nothing of this until New Years day.

So, On New Years day my girlfriend had invited her sister in-law around for roast beef, it's a tradition that now goes back some 6-8 years. Dawn who is my girlfriends sister in-law duly came around with her son.They were accompanied by my girlfriends daughter and her boyfriend, and my girlfriends son, girlfriend and baby son. So it was a pretty full house, and a lovely meal that we all enjoyed, but at the table my girlfriend brought up the fact that she was surprised to find that I had put one of the small Christmas decoration ornaments in one of the boxes due to be recycled and sealed up the box. It was only because the box was about to be torn up and flattened that it was found by her.

I spoke up at the table and asked what Christmas ornament was it, and my girlfriend couldn't really remember and was surprised I had actually spoke out about it. I hastened to point out  that I had in fact NOT actually put anything in the box let alone seal any boxes up.

My girlfriend made light of the matter and said it was probably a ghost, but to me the object and story carry's more significance than I want to expand on. For the last two days I have asked my girlfriend if she can remember what the small ornament was, but each day she has come home from work saying "Why is it so important, I simply can't remember what it was". She seems to think it was something off of the Christmas tree, which could be anything from a baubles to an angle. I was actually tempted to unpack all of the Christmas decorations and go through each box until my girlfriend remembered which item it was, but trust me when I say we have lots of boxes.

The crazy thing is, neither of us actually moved the object into the box, and the guests to our house have visited us either side of the event happening.