TheBanyanTree: A Present from Grandma

[Pam Lawley]

No worries!  I was so wrapped up in the story that I never even noticed any
silly typos!!

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Monique Colver
<monique.colver at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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