Gifts
I cleaned my old apartment today and now I’m coughing and wheezing and having a hard time breathing. I think it’s safe to say that it was definitely my crappy old apartment that turned me mildly asthmatic.
On the brighter side, a friend gave me a truly awesome Christmas/Solstice/Holiday gift today: a tin of freshly baked, undecorated sugar cookies, a decorating kit and a couple tubs of colored frosting. I had just been thinking about how much I wanted to make sugar cookies with my boys but how time was running out and I knew I wouldn’t get around to it, and moments before she handed me the tray with a smile, I was bitching to her about that very thing.
That is an excellent gift for the single mothers in your life who so want their children to have every fun childhood experience they had around Christmas but who lack the time, energy, organization, energy, time and time. And energy.
This friend also offered to sacrifice a day of her weekend next week to watch my boys while I get my shit together. I was lamenting that I wished I could just have a day where I could sit and brainstorm around some problems I’m facing, write up a good budget and financial plan, and start working on some ideas I have that might make my life easier and she immediately offered to provide that for me.
I believe that my dad is getting me a very fancy new iPod for Christmas but I’m pretty sure that my gifts from this friend take the cake.