Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Homemade Gifts for Small People



Approximately 4.5 years ago my best friend told me she and her husband were expecting their first child. I wanted to make something special for her and her new baby.

I started cross stitching

A few months later my Carpal Tunnel issues got to be unbearable. I traded in stitching for massage therapy, accupunture, and physical therapy, and eventually dual surgerys on my hands (but hat is a WHOLE other story)

I recuperated

I started stitching again.

My friend had another baby.

Her son is now 4 and her daughter is now past her first birthday.

The gifts have changed some.

This weekend I presented her with her baby’s gifts. A yellow Super-hero Cape for her oldest. The completed baby quilt for her youngest.

I was told her son’s favorite color was yellow, and unbeknownst to me just the week before he had been asking his mom what he could use as a cape.

The night that she got home and gave her son the gift I had made for him I got the best phone call I have had in a long time. A sweet, excited voice on the other end of my phone filled with excitement telling me how much he loves his super-hero cape and now he can fly. I asked if he was ready to rid the world of all evil now that he was an official super-hero. He responded “no, I think I’ll just fly around”.



I like that, not all super hero's need to save the world, We need some to just fly around...