This isn’t actually a blog about Dickens, although, yes, I love his works. At least all that I have read. This blog is about a particular gift I received.
My youngest son’s fiancée, Lauren, gave me a beautiful wooden advent calendar several years back. The days leading up to Christmas are numbered on the front on twenty-four little drawers. She has filled the drawers in the past with chocolate and themed objects, the first year being Winnie-the-Pooh, which included snippets and quotes on small, rolled papers as well as adorable Winnie, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet charms and erasers. The next year was a Charlie Brown theme. Plenty of Snoopy and Woodstock, as well as Charlie and his friends. Each year’s efforts have reflected an obvious labor of love. Opening those little drawers to find out the items secreted inside has been a great pleasure.
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