Christmas Fruits

A while a back I was someone big on giving greeting cards. That’s all change now, but back then I found the cute and (in my opinion) expensive things to be as necessary as Christmas Holiday gifts. I would put them everywhere and on just about everything. One time I took a meat pie over to my mom’s and put a greeting card on that too. My mom thought I had obviously lost my mind.

When I wrapped presents I did them in three steps. I’d tape the box shut from every side. Even the box lid. I’d tape it with long pieces of tape from one corner to the other. Then I’d pick three different warping papers. One would plastic, the other would be patterned paper and the last would be something metallic. The paper would go on first, followed by the plastic and then add corners with the metallic one. My husband often said my Christmas gifts were hard to unwrap and I though it was because he was afraid of getting emotional about my really great Christmas gift. The third step was the bow and a greeting card. I’d just address the to: and From: and that was it. My Christmas holiday gifts were something I was proud of. Not just because they were really unique Christmas gifts but also because I had put so much time and energy into wrapping them.

I began holding back on the greeting cards and the tape when one December my husband announced we had exceeded the tape roll quota. We had bought sixteen rolls and the store wouldn’t sell us any more. So I started to conserve tape. I slowed down with the greeting cards because of my mother. I had bought her a Christmas fruit basket and was about to take it over to her when she showed up for a surprise visit. I told her I was going to bring the Christmas fruit baskets over. She said she’d take it herself and thanked me. I ran to get a greeting card for and that’s when my mother with the kind motherly patience told me ‘Greeting Cards are not shoes that go with everything’.

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