Christmas Fruits

I remember my first Christmas after I got married. Actually I remember the days leading up to Christmas more vividly. I remember being up all night wondering what I’d get for my in-laws. The neighbors were new and I didn’t know anyone very well. I had no shopping partner. I was in the formative years of my shopping life. I worried about Christmas gifts, Christmas decoration, Christmas dinner and Christmas wrapping paper.

I still had a bit of teenage perspective on things. To me an ordinary Christmas gift was a pair of jeans and unique Christmas gifts were designer clothes. When the early Christmas holiday gifts began arriving I got a bit worried. It was mostly food like pies, cookies and Christmas gift baskets. I couldn’t make Christmas cookies and stuff back then. It’s a talent I acquired only after my children were born. As more and more early Christmas gifts began to arrive I really began to panic. I didn’t know what would make a good early Christmas gift and I had less time to shop now. I was still trying to balance my work and domestic responsibilities. But as the gifts kept pouring in for the newly weds, and I felt an increasing obligation to respond in kind, I decided to go with the old copy cat routine.

Since I couldn’t bake or cook very well, I bought Christmas baskets like the ones I had received. But I didn’t buy the ones full of coupons and mugs. I had grown tired of finding mugs with ‘Merry Christmas’ and “Newly Wed’ written on them in the gift baskets. I couldn’t inflict similar torture on anyone. I didn’t have room for one more cup. So I bought Christmas fruit baskets. They were better because everyone loves fruit, they look better than the other baskets and because it’s something to eat. I even found some baskets that came with chocolate sauce. They proved to be a very fail safe and widely liked gift.

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