April Coker, Author

Category: holidays

  • No Gift Wrapping for YOU! A Post-Christmas Post

    In the frenzy of the last few days before Christmas, some shoppers get a little edgy. They seem to forget what gift giving is all about and get caught up in the frustrations of heavy traffic, crowded malls, and delayed shipments. Unfortunately, those whose job it is to serve these shoppers often receive the brunt…

  • Adventures in Gift Wrapping: It’s a Wrap!

    If you poked your head out in East Texas yesterday and listened, really listened, you might have heard the sounds of paper ripping as the lucky recipients of gifts wrapped by Cindi and her elves from Festival of Flags and Gift Wrapping in Tyler opened their beautiful packages.  Of course, most of us were too…

  • It’s Christmas Eve and It’s a Wonderful Life

    The gifts are wrapped–all nine million of them–and I am finally sitting in my chair taking in my favorite all-time Christmas movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”     Nine million gifts may be an exaggeration, but I know that I wrapped at least twenty or thirty per day since December 1, so what is that,…

  • Comfy Sunday: A Boxin’ and a Wrappin’

    Wow.  My last blog post was before Thanksgiving!  And now we’re on the home stretch to Christmas!  How did that happen so fast?  I finally have a few minutes to sit down and write so here goes. . . Friday after Thanksgiving was a good time to go to First Monday Trades Day in Canton,…

  • Meaningless Drivel Monday: "Stop and smell the stuffing!"

    Okay, it’s getting ridiculous.  The Christmas season, or as the politically correct like to call it, the holiday season, is coming earlier and earlier every year.  Have you noticed?  This year I saw Christmas ads on television even before Halloween was over.   Stores like Hobby Lobby and Michael’s have stocked their Christmas aisles beginning…