MontrealMum
01-01-2009, 11:10 PM
Not really about Christmas, actually, but I liked the alliteration :) Here is my version of a "Jones" story. I'm not asking WWYD, but just sharing because it's just so odd...
I will try to keep this short, but it's really pretty involved and complicated. I was part of a group of three girlfriends in highschool, it was me, J, and K. J and I have both moved away from our hometown and have been gone for quite some time, but our mothers both still live there. K has not been too good about keeping in touch since getting married about 9 years ago (when I say not good, I mean really not good). In fact, a few years back, she and her husband moved and didn't tell me or J - I found out when I went home to visit and discovered her phone had been disconnected, subsequently I drove by her house to find strange cars in the drive. I called her parents and found that they didn't have an answering machine - in the end, it took us 2 years to track her down. But, I digress.
J just wrote me to say that she received an Xmas card from K - who is married with 2 girls. I have not gotten a card, but it may be that the mail is slow, or I might not be getting one, you never know with K. Anyhoo, the card is a photo of 3 little girls, and is signed "Merry Xmas, love X,Y,Z". No note, no parent's names - no explanation for the inclusion of the third mystery child.
According to J, the child must be at least a year based on size, ease of sitting, and that she has enough hair to have it up in a ponytail. Noone has heard anything about K being pregnant, or having had a baby. My last contact with her was at a baby shower thrown for me back home around May 2007 - my bff sent her an invite on a whim and she showed up to everyone's surprise. She certainly did not look pregnant, but if the kid's over a year, she would have been - though maybe not showing. Also, when I walked her out to her car she offered me the rest of the maternity clothes she had left as she explained she'd gotten rid of most of them since she and her DH were done. There have been no announcements of a birth in the church bulletin - she and my mom are members of the same church. Of course, she could have switched churches too considering her falling off the map after moving last time.
So, any ideas on where this kid came from? Adopted? A foster child? Her sister's? I can't imagine why it would be any of those, but who can say. If there hadn't been a photo, I might have said that the third little girl's name was a reference to a new dog; but there was a photo.
J and I are thinking that we should probably call though K is pretty darn hard to get ahold of by phone too; J felt guilty about missing the window for a gift and just not knowing, I felt angry and hurt. Now, I am just amazingly puzzled.
I will try to keep this short, but it's really pretty involved and complicated. I was part of a group of three girlfriends in highschool, it was me, J, and K. J and I have both moved away from our hometown and have been gone for quite some time, but our mothers both still live there. K has not been too good about keeping in touch since getting married about 9 years ago (when I say not good, I mean really not good). In fact, a few years back, she and her husband moved and didn't tell me or J - I found out when I went home to visit and discovered her phone had been disconnected, subsequently I drove by her house to find strange cars in the drive. I called her parents and found that they didn't have an answering machine - in the end, it took us 2 years to track her down. But, I digress.
J just wrote me to say that she received an Xmas card from K - who is married with 2 girls. I have not gotten a card, but it may be that the mail is slow, or I might not be getting one, you never know with K. Anyhoo, the card is a photo of 3 little girls, and is signed "Merry Xmas, love X,Y,Z". No note, no parent's names - no explanation for the inclusion of the third mystery child.
According to J, the child must be at least a year based on size, ease of sitting, and that she has enough hair to have it up in a ponytail. Noone has heard anything about K being pregnant, or having had a baby. My last contact with her was at a baby shower thrown for me back home around May 2007 - my bff sent her an invite on a whim and she showed up to everyone's surprise. She certainly did not look pregnant, but if the kid's over a year, she would have been - though maybe not showing. Also, when I walked her out to her car she offered me the rest of the maternity clothes she had left as she explained she'd gotten rid of most of them since she and her DH were done. There have been no announcements of a birth in the church bulletin - she and my mom are members of the same church. Of course, she could have switched churches too considering her falling off the map after moving last time.
So, any ideas on where this kid came from? Adopted? A foster child? Her sister's? I can't imagine why it would be any of those, but who can say. If there hadn't been a photo, I might have said that the third little girl's name was a reference to a new dog; but there was a photo.
J and I are thinking that we should probably call though K is pretty darn hard to get ahold of by phone too; J felt guilty about missing the window for a gift and just not knowing, I felt angry and hurt. Now, I am just amazingly puzzled.