Gratituesday

Today I´m joining Mandi because I´m thankful for thoughful friends.

Especially around Christmas it “sucks” when you´re about to loose or lost family, esp when it´s the parents.

I may be nearly 40 but imagining they´re both gone makes me feel like a lost kid.

Whom do you ask for advice in certain things when your Mother is gone?

Yesterday I found a card on the kitchen table, saying Ho-Ho-Ho and reminding me that also friends from the other end of the world do care and are aware of my Mum´s and hence also my situation – Mandi, you made my day - I thank you for being a friend.
Hehe... now I have the theme-song of the Golden Girls in my ear :-)

A real card is something different than an electronical one.

And look here:

I don´t think we have Christmas-themed stamps over here - how cool is that?!

I´m a sucker on this one this year, though.

I´m also thankful for my friend P who started to make personalized Advent-calendars for me after I´d lost my Dad to cancer.

That was 8 years ago and we still keep this tradition (both ways certainly).

The weird thing is…. Though the reason for this yearly mini-pressie-galore is a very sad one, I so look forward to the calendar. And enjoy finding things for hers all year round.

So… here is: To friends :-)

Oh, btw… being a sucker… I so wanted to make Pies with Ingo between Christmas and New Year´s (it´s a new field, so I need time and the feeling I´m off the every day stuff). I have the forms and the receipes – and very likely Ingo has to work those days, buhuuu!

We´ll see what we can do.