Tag: gifts

  • 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: Hula Hoops and Gift Wrap

    What do hula hoops and gift wrap have in common?  Nothing. Or so I thought. Enter a sweet older man hauling a purple hula hoop and a professional jump rope into the flag and gift-wrapping shop where I work one day a week.  It’s called “Festival of Flags and Gift Wrapping,” although during the Christmas…