This is segment two in a three part blog naming what I wish
for my babies that can’t be bought with money. My younger daughter, Deb, is a
complicated girl and coming up with ideas for her list was a little tougher
than for her sister. Of course, I don’t live with her so I can be forgiven for
that. As I said in my first blog about Deanna, many things that you wish for
your children can’t be purchased and, when they are all grown up, most of us
couldn’t afford it anyway. Here are my ideas for Deb.
Journals for life. Deb has an obsession with journals. To
me, they are fancy notebooks and when I feel the need to write, I use a plain
$.99 spiral from Walmart. Not this girl. She writes a lot (I wonder where she
gets that trait from?) but she needs a pretty book to do it in. Any time she
sees one in a store, she wants it. So one of my wishes for her would be an
unlimited supply that would just show up like magic on her nightstand. Journals
with pretty pictures on the front, of all shapes and sizes.
Pens to go with the journals. Not just any kind of pen will
do for Deb though. They have to glide like magic over the pages of her
journals. Plain old Bics are not an option for this girl. No, we’re looking at a
Uni-Ball Impact 207 or a Sharpie Fine Point or something of equal quality.
Color doesn’t matter. It’s all about the glide…
Free monthly shopping trips to specialty food stores. She’s
a cook and when she cooks, she likes to make food from different countries. Ingredients
for meals like that are outrageously expensive. In order to keep both her
creative side and her man’s stomach happy, a shopping spree is exactly what she
needs. Come to think of it, I may as well add in a free trip to a kitchen store
as well because if the ingredients are expensive, the cookware to make it is
even more so and there is always something new for her to try that needs a
unique, pricy gadget to create it.
A gum gum tree in her back yard. No, this isn’t a new
variety of plant life; Deb likes bubble gum. So much so that it’s amazing that
she has such beautiful teeth. And to keep her in gum gum is very expensive so
I’m wishing for her a tree with an endless supply of gum and no end to it’s
growing season. We need to make it a pretty tree and the fruit (gum) has to
come in different, yummy flavors.
Right next to the gum gum tree is a tea tree. Earl Grey
specifically. Girlie drinks her tea like
most drink coffee. Can’t leave home without it. Doesn’t speak in the morning
until she has it…not anything civil -like anyway. Again, has to be pretty and
no end to it’s blooming. Because Deb without her tea (with a spot of milk) is
not someone you want behind the wheel of a car. Or anywhere else for that
matter.
These are my wishes for Deb. Stay tuned for Elijah’s … it’s
coming up next.
