A Lovely, Lovely Person* sent a CDPackage to cheer me up and give me strength during these
brutal relentless discouraging challenging days of motherhood!
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| Lots of cheerfully wrapped presents and a sweet card! |
And
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| Bubble wrap!! (The children especially thank-you for this.) |
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| Presents #1 and #2 |
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| #1: YUMMY! This had the PERFECT ratio of chocolate to pretzel. |
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| #2: What a great idea! I'd never seen these before! It was a challenge for me to not use my hands for 20 minutes, but I finally did it, and it was quite pampering! |
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| Presents #3 and #4 |
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| #3: How perfect! I miss Mister Rogers; he was so kind and wise. The world could use more people like him! |
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| #4: Wonderful things for tired feet! I really enjoy socks that are heavenly-soft, and I am sad that one of these has gone missing, so the other one is on my lost-sock hanger =(. |
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| Present #5 |
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| #5: There can never be too much delicious chocolate!! These were yummy! |
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| Present #6 in 4 parts |
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| #6: These are a very pleasant sweet-pea scent! Good timing too: I was almost out of the last CDP soap I enjoyed so much! |
UPDATED:
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| Present #7 |
It had just been ONE OF THOSE DAYS. (Ian lost the privilege of SPEAKING early on in the day because his loud, angry voice was killing my spirit. I hurt my shoulder, which had JUST stopped hurting, again when I lifted the vacuum cleaner over the couch while we were deep cleaning the VERY HOT AND NO CEILING FAN IN SIGHT living room. I got hot and grumpy AGAIN when we were organizing the game/coloring book shelves, and the ONLY thing that made me feel better was ice cream. And on and on and on.) And I was TRYING to hang in there....and then I heard the sound of something crashing to the floor and shattering. And even then, I didn't get angry or start screaming, but when I discovered that a child had just broken ANOTHER one of the measuring cups I LOVE because they are beautiful and have all of my favorite colors from the dishes I finally picked out after 8 or 9 years of marriage, I thought I might have to cry, so I went to my room.
I hesitated to open this CDP because I was afraid of wasting it on a day in which there was NO HOPE. But, since it WAS a severely Crappy Day, I followed directions and opened it anyway, and the most amazing thing happened: as I saw what was in the package, my face smiled involuntarily, and the Crappiness that had been so oppressive mere MOMENTS before just dissapated in the face of this awesomeness:
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| A Baskin Robbins gift card wrapped in ice cream cone tissue paper!!!!!!!! |
Thank you, Lovely Person, for helping me through some discouraging days!!
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*I will be keeping Crappy Day Present senders
anonymous so that the sender doesn't have to worry that Person Q is going to see
what they (the sender) sent me and possibly feel bad that their (Person Q's)
package was not as fabulous as mine ;-). But if you don't worry as much
as I do aren't worried about that, you are welcome to claim your
package in the comments!
4 comments:
Hahahahahaha, I'm so sorry, but the picture of present #1 . . . the glare . . . I figured out that it was a chocolate covered pretzel, but my FIRST thought was that it was poop ;) And that made me giggle, which I am calling a CDP for myself after a long day of used car shopping with a toddler while feeling pregnant and yucky ;)
Kenner--Glad I could help out =).
You have a great deal of restraint, not to open #7!
But I suppose it is a GOOD thing that you have had need for only six of the CDPs?
Ugh. I do not want you to open #7 now. Because that means a bad day. Let it sit on your desk for many years!
Life of a Doctor's Wife--It takes great restraint not to open it when I see it on a non-Crappy Day, but then, when it IS a Crappy Day, I'm too busy/overwhelmed with dealing with the day to remember to open it! ONE OF THESE DAYS I'll remember to open it because I am very curious =)!
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