I wrote this post THREE YEARS ago -- and I received a nice email because of it....the internet is an amazin place...
So -- while I WAIT FOR BABY NEWS -- here's one of my favorite posts....
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Before Christmas 2009 goes away forever -- I'd like to point out one of my favorite FARRO traditions --
Hanging in our living room -- every year -- my fabulous cardboard ornament of Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in a scene from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. The best Christmas movie EVER made. I watch it every single year -- it goes beyond Christmas tradition. It's what life is all about -- not just for one day a year, but EVERY day of your life. Making a difference. Just by taking care of your family, going to work every day, being kind....
All the people you touch with your life -- but never really think about. I LOVE the movie..
Maybe 15 years ago, Target decorated their stores with scenes from It's A Wonderful Life -- and I sucked up to the local Target manager, spent hours shopping there every single day during the month of January -- hoping to snag one of the ORNAMENTS before it went into the dumpster...
My persistence paid off. As persistence always does. And this ornament became a fixture in the Farro living room...
Yep. It IS a Wonderful Life...
Hello! I just found your blog by accident when trying to find out more about a cardboard wall hanging I've been given!
ReplyDeleteMine is of George and Zuzu holding her flower. I'm at least the third person to have it, and I didn't know where it was from, so thanks for posting the info; I'm glad to know at least that it was from Target.
Do you have any idea how many different ones there were? Just curious. I'm sure they're impossible to buy!
Happy New Year (three years later but a holiday greeting just the same)!