forgiveness and super glue

So six months into marriage, we're learning a lot about conflict, forgiveness, and super glue. I'm a big fan of the "angels without faces" (willowtree) and have a few of them decorating windowsills and shelves around the house. Peter is really into practicality and as he watched me add little decorative things here and there, he commented that he really appreciated things that served a purpose or could be used for something more than decoration. So I picked up one of the angel figures and stated that they served the purpose of bringing me sanity. He raised an eyebrow, but accepted it. I think. Curiously, a few of them were knocked off of their sills and shelves and broken. Unfortunately they were the ones that had been given as gifts. Just things, right? We're learning.
Then we were in an antique store in New Orleans one afternoon. As we dug through the various items in search of "treasure," Peter came across something really neat. A stein commemorating the 500th anniversary of Columbus discovering Puerto Rico. Satisfied that he had found something rare and important to his culture and life, we bought it and moved on to other stores. Later on were loading our bags into the car and the bag containing this treasure slipped from my grip. Really. It had to be that bag. More discussion about things and forgiveness. And then we bought super glue. A lot of it. As we begin to put things back together, I think we both smile as we see growth.