Holiday gifts, one mitt at a time
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- December
- 29
For years, I’ve purchased masses of small gifts for my children which are duly wrapped and placed around the fireplace waiting for the holidays to appear.
The years have changed the gifts from small plastic frogs and harmonicas to book lights and gift cards, but what hasn’t changed is the tradition of drifting by the fireplace during the weeks of December, counting up who has how many packages.
What’s also tradition is that I get the fewest number of gifts. This year, my youngsters decided that wouldn’t be so.
I got the regulation gift cards, of course, from my husband, but I had seven small gifts in odd-shaped packages waiting for me as well, putting me one-up from my husband and tied with my two oldest children in number of gifts.
What my enterprising children did was purchase two silicone mitts and a set of metal measuring cups and wrap them up separately. The first gift I opened was the 1/4 cup, nicely tied up with a bow all to itself. I opened the third-cup measure next, in its own package. Then came the rest, one by one. They also wrapped up the ring that holds the measuring cups as a set.
Frankly, I’m still laughing. And here’s a wish for laughter and good kitchen memories to all for the upcoming year.
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on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 11:30 am by Randi Weiner.
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How sweet of them to do that!