How I Won #1 Daughter-in-law Position!

If you know Phil’s mom then you know how much she loves antiques and auctions and collecting.  🙂  Her favorite TV show is The Antiques Roadshow on PBS.

Several months ago, she showed me the newspaper article telling that The Show would be in a big city near us this summer.  She had read all the instructions on how to request tickets.

She asked if it was OK to send a request in my name.  It was one request per household.

And she asked, that if she won tickets, would I drive her there as FIL didn’t want to drive.

Sure!  I’m always game to drive.  🙂

And so we waited.  And waited.

I figured when June rolled around, we were out of luck.

However, one day…

I got a box in the mail from Heather!  😀  I was so excited to open it and loved, loved, loved my new Brazillian sandals!  😀  She is so very sweet!  … but I’m getting side-tracked here…

And the evening progressed.

Until I returned to the kitchen for my bedtime hot cocoa.   I sorted through the rest of the mail, previously ignored.  This plain envelope looked like junk mail but it was thick.  And it seemed like a PBS-type call letters in the corner.  Maybe I had won something from a quilting show.  (All that I usually see on PBS.  😉  )

I opened it.

From the back, of course,

An ad for insurance…. a company that SPONSORS THE ANTIQUES ROADSHOW!  Ack!

I turned over the inside contents and was greeted with —

Oh my goodness I knew I had hit the jackpot!  It was 9:50 p.m.   I said to Phil, “Do you think it is too late to call them?”

And he vehemetly said, “Yes!”

So I had to sleep on my news!  Meanwhile doing a snoopy dance in the living room.

The next morning, JP & I went to their house.  I had the envelope in my purse and they didn’t know we were coming over.  I walked into the middle of the living room and said I wanted to show her what I got in the mail yesterday.  I handed MIL the envelope.

She immediately happily wondered when she saw the return address.   I think my smile gave away the rest as she pulled out the tickets.

She read out loud: Congratulations! Here are your Antiques Roadshow tickets!

Meanwhile, FIL entered the living room from and I annouced with my hands in the air –

“I just won favorite daughter-in-law!”

As MIL walked to her chair and sat… silently… reading… every bit of info on the tickets.

She was pleased as punch!  Tho she also thought that maybe, just maybe HER tickets would arrive in her mailbox that day.  I tried to tell her these were HER tickets.

So very soon, we’ll be heading out for our journey.  We have 2 tickets and each ticket holder can take in 2 items for appraisal.   She is choosing items for me to take for her.   Sounds like it has been a big decision process.  😉

I’m taking my camera so I’ll show you the real behind the scenes.  🙂

FYI… my in-laws have one son & one daughter.  I’m the only DIL.  😉