Christmas Fruits

A few years ago a friend of mine went on a sabbatical. She had been reluctant to go in the first place but she needed it badly. She was afraid she was going to burn out. But she was also afraid that if she left it would rub off on her progress report. We convinced her to take some time off for herself, which she finally did.

She came back in early December all fresh and full of life. We decided to throw her a welcome back party. The office was already beginning to look like Christmas and a few early Christmas gifts had also been given out. So we decided to make it a ‘Welcome Back in Time for Christmas’ party. There would be cake and balloons and pizza and cookies. Our menu was full of variety, the weird kind. But we were all generally excited about welcoming back our friend. We had decided to give her a small Christmas gift of some kind. We weren’t looking at any big spending, some one was getting a snow globe someone thought of a ceramic angel. I was indecisive about what to get her.

We had all set a limit on what we would spend on her gift. Everything that was affordable in the budget didn’t appeal to me and I wanted her to get Unique Christmas gifts. The easy and obvious stuff was already taken. There were two other colleagues who were stuck with the same problem. Everyone else was done wrapping their Christmas Holiday gifts. The three of us decided to ‘team up’ and get her one really awesome present. Someone suggested we get her a Christmas gift basket. We were a little apprehensive about it. The woman who suggested it had a habit of gifting a baby cactus plant to new people and it seemed a bit early for Christmas gift baskets. We settled on a nice box of fruit with gourmet chocolate sauce. We got her a box with a dozen pieces and she loved it. The party made her feel like she had truly been missed.

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