Welcome to the very first edition of Wonderful Words! How fun to have you along!!
Without further ado, the first wonderful word is:

Dictionary definition for amalgamate: to combine, unite, merge, or coalesce: The three schools decided to amalgamate.
My definition for amalgamation: combination, hodge-podge, mixture
Alyssa’s definition: variety (That girl loves words almost as much as I do!)

As I mentioned in a previous post, after 23 years of marriage, you need new plates. You also need new glassware. I started out my adult life with an amalgamation of glasses. For either our wedding or a shower, we got four tall glasses with geese on them (hey, I did get married in 1988 when that was very in!). I’m down to one. We got some blue glasses. I don’t remember how many I started with, but I’m down to six. Someone else gave us a few nicer water glasses, of which five now sit in my cabinet. We ended up with high ball glasses even though we don’t drink anything that would go into those glasses. Several of those have managed to break. And I only have three juice glasses. That doesn’t work very well when you have five people in your family. And it really doesn’t work when you have overnight guests. See what an amalgamation I have! Add to that an amalgamation of plastic cups from such far flung places as baseball games, restaurants and my alma mater, and it’s sheer craziness. You never know what you’re going to drink from at our house.


So, I’ve been on the hunt for new glasses to replace my amalgamation. Doesn’t anyone drink juice anymore? I couldn’t come up with juice glasses to save my life! I saw some in Wal-mart, but hesitated. 12 glasses for under $10 just sounded too inexpensive. As in cheap. As in, I’ll soon have another amalgamation if I’m not careful. 


My friend and I went shopping last week, on the hunt for glasses. I found some nice coolers (that’s the “technical” name – I call them milk glasses cause that’s what we use them for). No juice glasses. I resigned myself to another amalgamation. Things wouldn’t match, and you know I’m all about matching. These were on clearance, so I bought them.


The hunt for juice glasses that would at least compliment my new purchase continued. Did I ever tell you my BFF is the best shopper ever??? Well, she is and she knows where the bargains are. She led the way through a higher-end department store to a dark back corner where the clearance items sat. She dug and dug until she came up with it. A beautiful box containing 10 coolers and 10 JUICE GLASSES!!! Buh-bye amalgamation! They match!!! I won’t tell you how much I paid for 20 glasses. Alright, so I will. $14.99. Can. you. believe. it??? Expensive high-end department store glass for $14.99. I’ve never been happier.


The old ones are packed and ready to go to our cabin. I don’t care if I have an amalgamation there. I just wonder how long before I have another amalgamation at home?


Now, it’s your turn. Write a post about the word amalgamation or containing the word amalgamation. Please link to my blog in your post. Then come back here and link to your post. That’s it! Thanks so much for playing along and spreading the word. I can’t wait to read your posts.