The "more news" that I forgot I was going to write about

I just got off the phone with Mom. She said she was enjoying the part of aging that causes her to forget entire storylines of books she's read and hung onto. So, she's reading them again and they are like new adventures. How nice.
I'd like that too. Books are so expensive now. When did the price of paperbacks go up to $9.99? I missed that price increase until just the other day when I was in the grocery store looking for something to read. I was shocked. I buy my books at tag sales. Or I go to the library where they are free. But that's not what I wanted to write about.
Mom forgets story lines and that benefits her. I forget things like doctor appointments. Taking stuff out of the freezer for supper. Conversations. Laundry in the washer that I need to re-wash because now it smells bad. And I forgot that I was going to write about "More News".
So, here's the news: Helen is a friend of mine who has bought some jewelry from me. (You were wondering when I was going to get back to writing about jewelry, huh?) I've also done some repairs to her jewelry and not charged her. That's what friends do. Friends also let friends borrow stuff. She asked me if she could borrow a necklace and bracelet set that I had made, to take with her on her annual trip to the Cape. Of course I said ok. So she did.
Now she wants to buy them. I told her they weren't for sale. Not because I'm especially attached to them or anything. I actually forgot she had them. (More of this forgetting shit) I would have remembered eventually, and hopefully remembered where they were too, but there she was, sitting at my kitchen table telling me that "They speak to her", that "They are ART". OMG. I really didn't know what to say. It's not that I don't want to sell them. I just never considered it before. Even though that necklace was the first cabochon I'd ever beaded (and it came out great, if I do say so myself) I was just caught off guard and didn't know how much to ask for them. They took many hours to create. A Rose Quartz cabochon with a beaded bezel and a spiral beaded necklace. The bracelet is freeform peyote in the same bead colors. How do you put a price on one of your children? Because that's almost what it feels like. Ok, I admit if I loaned out one of my children, I'd remember THAT. But you know what I mean. And actually, it's not so much the jewelry that I loved, it was the MAKING it. (Again, like children...ha, ha...did I say that out loud?)
So she told me she'd pay me $300. And she told me to think about it.
THINK ABOUT IT? I don't need to think about it. Of course I didn't tell her that. She's not THAT good of a friend. $300. No, I surely don't need to think about selling that set for $300. I'm actually considering throwing in a kid to seal the deal.