Not Long Now

Hmm, taking a reading breather here. Is it near Christmas yet? Thinking we might be needing some sleep in 3-4 hours, but otherwise doin fine.

My best friend did something wonderful last night. While I was still at work, he came over and did some surprises stuff. Had me pretty much fooled. Really a nice person ... I’d been stayin caught up with most the dishes, but first surprise was he helped us with a couple of pans.

He IM’d just before we left the office and asked if I could pick up some candy canes for the kids. First question was "whose kids?" Both our kids are most likely past candy cane stages. Sometimes we question too much, but he was pretty insistent ... even had us asking the boss for candy canes since he thought he’d seen some on her kitchen counter.

I wasn’t allowed much past the kitchen table in the back of our apartment. He disappeared into the living room. After a looong few minutes, he invited me in. It was spectacular! He’d gone out and bought us a small Christmas tree (artificial to be acceptable in apartment manager’s eyes). There were lights on it and the candy canes just bought at the drug store. Never had one before and to be honest ... haven’t had a tree at all since the boys left almost 7 years ago.

There were also lite dining pleasures, gifts, home made cookies, and time to talk. *Giggle* Try not to feel that he’s visiting a "shut-in" when he stops by. By the time I spotted the flowers, we were pretty near to tears.

Ya know ... I really think it’s the "little" things people do for you that really count. Think we’ll head back over to Slo’s place. She’s holding a blogathon. It’s almost like you have the feelin when your there, you are one of the special guests she was bakin for. It’s almost Merry Christmas time! We’ll be sure to save some of them cookies, but we’ve only got water to offer.

Sure hope he don’t scare the kitties ... God Bless Santa and all his little helpers! An ... some of them are bakin chocolate covered cherries tonight! Be over -------> there!