TheBanyanTree: A Present from Grandma

[Monique Colver]

Please forgive my typos. I think I'm not fully awake after a shopping
expedition this afternoon. "I'm apparently?" Really? I need a full-time
editor.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Monique Colver <monique.colver at gmail.com>wrote:

> Tomorrow is my charming husband's birthday, and with it shall be all the
> pomp and circumstance befitting a man of his station. No cake, of course,
> since he's diabetic, and I'm apparently have a blood sugar issue too (and a
> Vitamin D deficiency!), but he has asked for a sugar free apple pie and I
> know a place that has really good ones. His parents usually don't think
> about it much -- his mother's is the day before and I don't think she's
> ever
> forgiven him for ruining her birthday that one year. He'll call her tonight
> to tell her happy birthday, and then she'll likely respond in kind.
>
> But Grandma! Grandma remembers these things. (By Grandma I mean his
> grandma,
> of course, since mine are no longer in a present giving frame of mind.) She
> likes to send miscellaneous items that she finds around the house, and
> occasionally she'll send him a jacket or a shirt that actually turns out to
> be rather nice. We never know if a package is going to contain an
> interesting piece of memorabilia she found around the house or something
> really useful. A couple of months ago she sent a huge page out of an album,
> with old pictures still attached. I'm still not sure what to do with it.
> For
> our wedding she gave us an elderly vase she'd had hanging around the house,
> but it's an interesting vase, and that's all that really matters to me.
>
> So a box came today, smallish. Unexpected, as these things are. Andrew
> opened it, and I said, "aha! A mug!" He unwrapped the tissue paper around
> it
> and there it was, a Batman Forever glass mug from McDonald's, circa 1995.
>
> Now, we don't expect Grandma's presents to make much sense. That's part of
> the fun. Each time something shows up we're not sure what to expect. But
> this! A 1995 Batman Forever promotional item from McDonald's! Has she been
> holding on to it since 1995, waiting for that perfect occasion? Did she
> find
> it at a garage sale? Was she going through her cupboards? And in the card
> she sent along were also raffle tickets.Raffle tickets! So there may be
> more
> to the present, should any of the tickets be a winner. I think they're for
> a
> painting or something.
>
> But the Batman Forever commemorative glass mug is something I will always
> treasure. I think the value is about $2.50, but it's the thought that
> counts.
>
> I'm not sure what the thought was, but I am totally in love with this
> present anyway. It's just so . . . Grandma!
>
>
>
> --
> Monique Colver
>



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Monique Colver