Remember when we were kids and Christmas would come and we would get crazy excited. Now don’t get me wrong, I still get crazy excited about Christmas, but I feel like as adults we have lost a bit of the wonderment Christmas use to bring to us. I remember as children when we saw presents under the tree we use to go around and count how many were ours. We would look at the size and shape of each present and tell each other what we thought it was. We would shake them when my mom wasn’t looking. Some of us would get a little carried away, I remember Annicka actually would gently pick at the tape and gradually unwrap her presents before Christmas just because she couldn’t stand the suspense. What ever happened to that!? Now as adults we don’t even glance at the presents under the tree. What happened to the mystery!?
Well in years past I have tried to bring back the mystery by wrapping presents in boxes that were too large or putting caned goods in with the gifts just to try to throw people off and make the curiosity come back. And it has worked to a degree, but never the way I wanted it to. So this year I tried something a little different.
As some of you know my mom was a scrapbooking addict. Let me re-phrase that: my mom was a scrapbooking supply addict, and when she passed away she left a legacy of scrapbooking supplies. The unfortunate part of this legacy is that none of her children scrapbook. Last summer I finally took all of her supplies and organized it into one of those four-drawer metal hanging file cabinets, and it filled the whole thing. Hating to see my organizational work just sit there and collect dust I started looking into card making and found I really enjoyed it. So this year I took my card making skills and made a card for each gift. The fun part is that inside each card is a clue to what their gift is. Here’s some examples, see if you can guess what they are.
