Snowpocalypse!
Dec. 18th, 2009 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debboamerikI'm actually not going to write about the tremendous snowfall we are about to get (at 12-24 in., the biggest I've ever seen) or the fact that we are not having any kids over to make cookies until January (but still within Christmas, I hope - it's the biggest of the gifts I want this year - happy kids to make me feel cheerful and Christmasy). Instead, I am going to write about the package I found in front of the door when I got home.
The package of Royal Riviera pears from my parents.
They had given us some two years ago, and over Thanksgiving we (the ungrateful ones) told them again how nice it was to get them and how much we enjoyed them. I think they think they are going to get me back this way.
I appreciate the pears; I look forward to their deliciousness. I intend to write a formal thank-you letter for them, at which point my duty will have been discharged, in my opinion. Myra and I plan to either use or give away anything they give us this Christmas, and write a nice, formal thank-you letter for it all.
Interestingly, as I was on the Metro tonight coming back from Trader Joe's (shopping for Snowpocalypse), I was rereading A Little Princess, and came upon this line: "Any one who is kind wants to know when people have been made happy. They care for that more than for being thanked."
The package of Royal Riviera pears from my parents.
They had given us some two years ago, and over Thanksgiving we (the ungrateful ones) told them again how nice it was to get them and how much we enjoyed them. I think they think they are going to get me back this way.
I appreciate the pears; I look forward to their deliciousness. I intend to write a formal thank-you letter for them, at which point my duty will have been discharged, in my opinion. Myra and I plan to either use or give away anything they give us this Christmas, and write a nice, formal thank-you letter for it all.
Interestingly, as I was on the Metro tonight coming back from Trader Joe's (shopping for Snowpocalypse), I was rereading A Little Princess, and came upon this line: "Any one who is kind wants to know when people have been made happy. They care for that more than for being thanked."
