The Next Best Thing

It's no secret that I think of my mom when I find a penny. I'm not the one who coined the concept of Pennies From Heaven, but I buy into it. I also think of Mom when I see a ladybug. She harbored them in her house, which was a joking point with us, and I saw them everywhere the month after she died. My sightings have slowed down considerably, but I did have an encounter in the shower a week or two ago.

February is a special month for me. It contains my birthday, and also The Pony's birthday, during the first two weeks. I was a bit disappointed last week to find NO PENNIES at all! That only happens a few weeks a year. Saturday evening, I checked for comments on my blog post for the Saturday CENTSus, bemoaning the lack of coinage to show off for the week.

I browsed through a few other sites before going upstairs for supper. One of them was about recent primary elections. I rarely read this site, but the title caught my eye. So did the comments. There were 143 of them, as I recall. I was scrolling through, reading here and there, when I saw

A LADYBUG!

Sure, it was just an avatar. But it still counts as a ladybug! How many of those do you see every day? None for me! Until Saturday evening, February 8th. I didn't even look for the comment, just clicked on that avatar to see it bigger.

My mom's name was Dorothy. She passed away February 4, 2015. Five years ago that week.