I have seen many responses of what people received for Christmas. Steve and I usually buy something for the kitchen. This year we didn’t. In fact, we didn’t get anything for us for the holiday season. Why? There was no reason. With writing out medical checks and roofing checks and new guttering checks. It seemed we had already given enough.
This morning I couldn’t sleep and
got up at 3 AM to process the 10 lbs. of Chicken I had cooked the night before (it had cooled to the point it could be handled). We
cook for our barn cats. Yes, they get
regular cat food, but we top dress it on the cold mornings to give them a special
treat for catching all those mice who come into the barn. They are also good in the summer to keep the
snakes out of the barn.
I am getting off the subject
though. The topic I was going to write
about was gift giving. Not just for
Christmas but for any time.
This week I had picked up a
freebie from the marketplace on Facebook.
A lady had bought some freezer bags for her vacuum sealer. They ended up
not what she wanted. She put them up for
free. They were exactly what I needed,
but alas another person got there first.
NOT! They never picked up. She wrote me and said they are on the
porch. This is Friday the day before Christmas. It was great I was going to be the recipient. I didn’t know anything thing about the lady,
but I had Steve take a copy of one of my children’s books too her as a Thank
you. I figured if she didn’t need it,
she would have a friend with a little one.
She wrote me the nicest thank you
note on messenger. She had 3 little
grands under 3. She said the 3-year-old
will love it. I thought, gee it was so simple,
she sounded like it meant so much to her.
Back to the chicken. While I am processing the chicken, I am using
a Colander. It is plastic, and it collapses
(folds up). I received it for a Christmas
Gift from my SIL. You’ll say, “Strange
gift for Christmas” I’ll answer, “Every
time I use it I think of her”. In fact
when I see it not taking up space in the cabinet, I think of her. A very meaningful and helpful gift. It is not something I would have bought
myself, because I have other colanders.
I love it.
Another gift I received for my
birthday was from my son. It was a box
of 30 Elmer’s kids glue sticks. I squealed when I saw it. He had heard me cursing because I was always
out of glue sticks when I needed them. Every
time I open the box to retrieve one, I smile and think of him.
My daughter, years ago
bought me a gift, which keeps on giving, for Chanukah. She went to Williams Sonoma. Admittedly she could have bought me
knock-offs and I would have been just as thrilled. She purchased several sizes in each color;
orange, yellow, green. They were silicon
spatulas (they year they first came out). I am using them still. I use them to bake every gift which goes out
the door. They are used to cook her dad’s
favorite chocolate ice box pie. I don’t
know what I would do in the kitchen without them. Every time I use them, I think of her. I would have never bought them myself.
A gift doesn’t have to be extravagant;
it literally is the thought that counts.
Thinking of the person when you are picking a gift and choosing
something especially for them, is what is important.
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