Think Twice
Dec. 16th, 2006 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fitzwThink twice before you open a large box filled with packing peanuts on a bed covered with a polar fleece blanket.
The Gray Family holds its holiday gift exchange on some weekend before or after Christmas (usually before), but not actually on Christmas. This is because there are so many other families that we've all married into, and we don't want to interfere with their holiday gatherings.
We each get one other person to give a present to in the family (other than our spouses -- we're all expected to give a gift to our spouses, of course). Children give a gift to another child, adults give a gift to another adult. Our parents give a gift to each of us, and we give a gift to each of our parents.
For my father this year, the gift I gave was a new handle on one of his splitting mauls. I "borrowed" a splitting maul last Spring, which had a broken handle, and we picked up a replacement handle at the hardware store. It needed a little shaving down to get it to fit the eye in the maul head. And, since the gift was the handle,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
helwen was kind enough to wrap the handle in wrapping paper for me.
helwen asked for, and will get (when they arrive), buttons for a dress that she is making. She gave me a special table-mounted rolling cutter for cutting rags into strips suitable for weaving into rag rugs (hence my comments about packing peanuts at the start of this post). That tool should get a fair amount of use from both of us.
The Gray Family holds its holiday gift exchange on some weekend before or after Christmas (usually before), but not actually on Christmas. This is because there are so many other families that we've all married into, and we don't want to interfere with their holiday gatherings.
We each get one other person to give a present to in the family (other than our spouses -- we're all expected to give a gift to our spouses, of course). Children give a gift to another child, adults give a gift to another adult. Our parents give a gift to each of us, and we give a gift to each of our parents.
For my father this year, the gift I gave was a new handle on one of his splitting mauls. I "borrowed" a splitting maul last Spring, which had a broken handle, and we picked up a replacement handle at the hardware store. It needed a little shaving down to get it to fit the eye in the maul head. And, since the gift was the handle,
helwen was kind enough to wrap the handle in wrapping paper for me.helwen asked for, and will get (when they arrive), buttons for a dress that she is making. She gave me a special table-mounted rolling cutter for cutting rags into strips suitable for weaving into rag rugs (hence my comments about packing peanuts at the start of this post). That tool should get a fair amount of use from both of us.
