a tender package from home
7 December 2006
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a couple weeks back my mother called me to let me know she was going to send me a package for christmas. for the first time since i’ve lived in ontario, i won’t be spending christmas with my mom and my brother. i’ve been home for the holidays every year, with the exception of last year when they came here. so anyway, my mother felt compelled to produce a box full of goodies at my doorstep.a package from my mother produces two kinds of emotions in me—fear and excitement.let me deal with the fear thing first… i know it makes me sounds like an ungrateful child, but my mom has a long history of sending me odd things (weird second hand jewelry, floss?, etc.). it’s hereditary… my grandmother used to send us weirdo packages of psychoticness (i recall an electric card sorter… because my parents played a lot of texas hold ‘em?). my mother vowed to never do the same thing; i remind her of this every time i’m diagnosing just how wacky some of the items are when the package arrives.
next, the excitement… there’s usually pretty awesome things in there. i think somehow just sending the good stuff is not enough to my mom; so she rounds out the box with whatever odd, freaky items laying around the house that she’s acquired at various yard sales and second hand stores. the moral of the story is: you gotta take the good with the bad. lucky for me, the package that arrived on my doorstep a couple of days ago was a sweet surprise! mom sent me a cute ceramic kitty (that i’ve been eyeing on her nicknack shelf for years), a fun scarf, delecious rice krispy squares (chocolaty and peanut buttery), and some nice, old books for hooman were included, too. it was really nice. thanks, mom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
on December 8th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Those Rice Krispie treats look really really good, now that I’m a house husband, maybe I should try making stuff like that.
on December 8th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
get on it, buddy!