Kids Today

This is a thank you card I recently received from my 4-year-old friend Bo. (We'd sent her some little presents for her birthday.) This reminded me that I also got a thank you card from my niece Mattie after we sent her birthday presents. Say what you will about gangs and street crime - in my experience, the kids today are extremely polite.

More Amazing News!

I have actually packed up and posted my sister's birthday presents! Only 5 1/2 weeks late!

Once she receives them, I'll post the photos I took before they went in the box. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of them post-wrapping, so you'll just have to trust me that they were ridiculously cute. But then, my presents always are...

Lavender Sachets

I finally caught up with my former co-workers Jo, Adrienne and Tammy and gave them their Christmas presents. I quit my job just before Christmas and then spent 19 Dec – 8 Jan in Texas visiting family, so between training my replacements (my job being so difficult and busy that it took two people to replace me), comforting all the co-workers who were devastated at the prospect of not seeing me every day, packing, facing an early deadline for purchasing all family gifts AND hosting a Pre-Christmas Dinner and Gift Exchange for my UK family, I wasn’t able to concentrate enough to make their gifts. I fell back on the tried-and-true lavender sachet, in cute little sets of three. I also made a set for a (very late) birthday present for my friend Virginia. They seemed to go over very well, though in hindsight I probably should have presented them after dinner as they are very fragrant and so our entire dinner smelled vaguely lavender-y. Which was weird for pizza…