the lucky one

Remember how my dad won us tickets to go see the Nutcracker?

Well, before we found out he won, I had entered another giveaway.  And would you believe that I just found out yesterday that I won that one, too!?!?!? 

I won four more tickets!  Is that crazy or what?  I've never been lucky in this sort of thing before, so I don't know why this sudden stroke of luck, but I'm so thankful to have been blessed by EIGHT tickets to this show!

Last night I called a friend with two little girls who I thought might like them.  She told me, "I think you're about to make my little girl's dream come true!"  Her daughter (a friend of Rachel's) had recently seen the Barbie Nutcracker video, and there was a documentary at the end about the real Nutcracker ballet, which she loved watching.  Then her mom told her that they do the Nutcracker here in town, and she started begging to go see it.  They looked into going, but the only tickets left are the really expensive seats, so they decided not to go.  And then I called her with four extra tickets!  I'm so excited that I could help make her dreams come true.  They're so thrilled.

As fun as it is to know we get to go see it again next weekend (Rachel still doesn't know--please don't tell her if you see her!), I think it's even more fun to get to play Santa and give these away to a little girl and her family who really, really want them.