Today I put all the presents under the Xmas tree. We have quite a few for the girls, plus tons that their grandparents and aunts/uncles sent for them. Too many presents if you ask me, but this is a consumerist culture and for this one time a year, I’m the epitome of a consumer. What can I say? I just love seeing boxes under the tree.
I was much more restrained in my presents for everyone else – I’m getting tired of adult presents. Kids presents are much more fun, plus they remind me of a time when I wanted to play. And of course, when I give presents to my kids I’m actually giving them to my child self. The real kids – or rather the older kid – I expect to be quite ungrateful and upset about what I got her, whatever it is. I used to be the same way so I can’t fault her.
Anyway, for three more days I get to enjoy my tree and the myriad of presents underneath them. Of course, I have to keep the younger one away from it (shoo!) but it’s worth it.
Author: marga (Page 108 of 158)
Xmas is not even here, and I’ve already received quite a few presents from my mother (and there are a lot wrapped up). Here they are, so I can remember and thank her!
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Iraq’s National Library and Archive, Caught on the Front Line of
Sectarian Fighting, Is Closed
By BURTON BOLLAG
After months of determined efforts to keep going amid Iraq’s
deepening violence and chaos, the National Library and Archive, the
country’s largest depository of books and documents, has closed.
Babies die everyday of a million causes: poverty, hunger, disease. And yet this story is particularly maddening because not only the baby did not have to die, but the mother was detained for having been raped!
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