This Christmas, more than others, I've noticed that we Americans have lost the attention to details.
We have "gift-bagged" ourselves into being lazy wrappers of gifts. I lead the parade on this one, and I am not proud. The presentation of the gift is, as precious as, the contents. I have been known to not wrap, AT ALL!!!
What brought this realization to the front of my cluttered mind was, School Gifts!!!
My ELL (English Language Learners) kids may give , unusual gifts, like personal decorated EAR PICKS, but the wrapping is "old school'. Bows, ribbons, and cellophane! Dirt wrapped in cellophane, looks grand!!
This year I received Brazilian candy, homemade, in an individual wrapper , surrounded by cellophane and in its little, tiny box. Just one piece, in its own box with a handle. Beautiful. Then I gazed upon Santa's shirt and ribbon was the tie, that was the wrapping. It was folded and molded, origami wrapped ornament!!! None of us wanted to open the package. Awesome , attractive, presented with love, I felt it. There were homemade cookies, with labels telling us, the kind of cookies they were,petite little morsels, all wrapped and then wrapped again!!! Four little chocolate chips, four little peanut butter, four little nutmeg, all about the size of a perfect quarter, not touching each other!!!! Ribbon and design to die for, I kid you not!!! Homemade rose water soaps, in a gold foil box, just the size of the soap. I cannot even explain how the box opened and out came these little soaps, rose buds in my hands. No rubber gloves this year, or packages of panty hose, although those too were wrapped to perfection!!! A banner year, of sweetness, came our way.
Gifts bags are not horrible, there are so many cute ones to choose from. They certainly make gift wrapping easier, but I'm not so sure we don't lose something in the giving.
So this year I asked, Bill , Hart and Emma to wrap gifts, I can't take all this pressure!!!
We have "gift-bagged" ourselves into being lazy wrappers of gifts. I lead the parade on this one, and I am not proud. The presentation of the gift is, as precious as, the contents. I have been known to not wrap, AT ALL!!!
What brought this realization to the front of my cluttered mind was, School Gifts!!!
My ELL (English Language Learners) kids may give , unusual gifts, like personal decorated EAR PICKS, but the wrapping is "old school'. Bows, ribbons, and cellophane! Dirt wrapped in cellophane, looks grand!!
This year I received Brazilian candy, homemade, in an individual wrapper , surrounded by cellophane and in its little, tiny box. Just one piece, in its own box with a handle. Beautiful. Then I gazed upon Santa's shirt and ribbon was the tie, that was the wrapping. It was folded and molded, origami wrapped ornament!!! None of us wanted to open the package. Awesome , attractive, presented with love, I felt it. There were homemade cookies, with labels telling us, the kind of cookies they were,petite little morsels, all wrapped and then wrapped again!!! Four little chocolate chips, four little peanut butter, four little nutmeg, all about the size of a perfect quarter, not touching each other!!!! Ribbon and design to die for, I kid you not!!! Homemade rose water soaps, in a gold foil box, just the size of the soap. I cannot even explain how the box opened and out came these little soaps, rose buds in my hands. No rubber gloves this year, or packages of panty hose, although those too were wrapped to perfection!!! A banner year, of sweetness, came our way.
Gifts bags are not horrible, there are so many cute ones to choose from. They certainly make gift wrapping easier, but I'm not so sure we don't lose something in the giving.
So this year I asked, Bill , Hart and Emma to wrap gifts, I can't take all this pressure!!!
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