While I didn't get any information or cool software that I asked for with such subtlety, I did receive some pretty cool gifts. Along with a cool tea pot, tea cups, and sumptuous Earl Grey tea from Stacy, I also got a Borders gift certificate from Lee (she knows me and books!) and a customized "Best Friends" Zena Moon candle from my hot girls.
Cool!
One gift that really hit home, even deeper than the thoughtful, incredible, very Dawn-like gifts above was the Miss Suzy book Kathryn gave me. In this strange quest I've embarked on to reread books from childhood, I've had to do some real searching. Kathryn was with me when I asked our local librarian to help me remember this book about a squirrel and there were mean squirrels, and then this troop of toy soldiers helped her.... The librarian found it, I made a note of it, and Kathryn evidently filed her own note away.
When it came time to figure out what to get Mommy for her birthday, Chris and the girls did some Amazon shopping. Chris actually found my wish list (I didn't even know that HE knew I had one), and there was Miss Suzy. So, on my birthday, I sat down with my daughters and read to them a book I remember reading oh so many years ago.
And now that it's nearing Thanksgiving, I've a hankering for Cranberry Thanksgiving, which, thankfully, I already own. No long quest for this book.
While those other gifts I thought I wanted might have touched my mind and fed the writer in me, these birthday gifts touched my heart and fed my soul.
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