Gifts to Remember
The “best” unusual gift I ever received was a real, hollowed out ostrich egg! The “best” (costly) gift was chocolate covered macadamia nuts, Hawaiian coffee, and an assortment of shells from a student whose family had visited Hawaii. The “best” gift from the heart was from a boy who gave me a half used bottle of his mother’s perfume, because he like the way it smelled, and wanted me to have it. I don’t know if his mother ever knew what happened to it! It was given to me as a gift on the last day of school that year.
I am retired after 32 years of teaching, and during the last 15 years that I taught, if a child asked “What do you want for Christmas?” I always said, “an ornament for my tree”. An ornament can cost next to nothing, or it can be whatever the child and his or her parents want it to be. I have around a hundred handmade or store bought, funny and thoughtful ornaments, and I have put the child’s name and the year on each one. I love putting up my tree each year with all the memories! I only wish I’d thought of it the first year that I taught. Of course, I still always got some coffee mugs, bath salts, and other things!
Pearl Nancarrow, Globe, Arizona
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