"What do you want …
for (insert random gift giving occasion here).” Every occasion, I am asked this question. Every occasion I am asked to make a “list”. Every occasion 90% of the list is exactly the same. Maybe I should just type it up and laminate it, ya think? How hard can it be? I collect things. You know what is around the house. You live here, too. Well, there are always pretty tea pots at Hobby Lobby. You can find something with moose on it. They are not that hard to find.
Do not get me wrong. The gifts do not make the occasion. I would rather not make a list, let them get me what they want to get me, something from their heart.
One year, my youngest was 3 and he saw a pretty pink toothbrush. That is what he wanted to get me for my Christmas present that year. I loved that toothbrush and used it. That toothbrush was from his heart. He wanted to get it for me. He thought of me when he saw it.
I miss spontaneous gifts. They do not have to be huge or expensive, just something from the heart. Something that makes you think of me.
*EDIT* Even a handwritten note saying simply “Happy Birthday!” would mean the world to me. It is not the gift it is what is in the heart.
Sorry for the rant. You all probably wish I would go back to keeping things bottled in. LOL!
