Life is my litterbox ... Grab the SCOOP!

Saturday, December 08, 2007

Saturday Photo Hunt #46: LONG!

LONG!


The
Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt theme for this week is LONG!

It's the weekend before Mom's "winter vacation" starts, so the house if FULL of all kinds of presents that have to be finished an' packed before school ends.

This is a photo of the presents Mom made for the secretaries/clerks/instructional assistants she works with during the year. Mom bought a bunch of oyster hampers (those little Chinese food containers) to package the presents that she made.


Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone, but the containers have lavender-scented sugar-and-salt scrub an' a handmade lavender-scented glycerine soap.

It would have taken furry long to put out the other group of packages. Mom has eighteen little brown giftbags that have a jar of oatmeal-raisin-spice cookie mix in each. Those packages go to her teacher colleagues. Then there are the seven Secret Paws boxes that are nearly ready to go, the three Trader Joe's frozen foods bags full of gifties for her "girls," the snowman bag full of stocking-stuffers for her god-daughter and the sisters, an' the packages going "North" ... oh, an' a furry special package, too.

Mom will be glad when it's the 15th of December 'cuz the storage room will once again be empty without the LONG lines of presents waiting to go ...

Whewww!

13 comments:

muffinmidi said...

Your mommy has been a busy bee this month. You should go crawl on her lap to reward her for all her hard work.

Mark's Mews (Marley, Lori, Loki, and Binq) said...

Cool "LONG" list of prezzies! Yer Mom really givs out a lot of stuff... :)

Tara said...

Wow,seven secret paws! Mom has trouble just doing one for me!

Thanks so much for the card and Temptation coupons! I'm going to make Mom use those right away!

Tara

Around Your Wrist said...

wow, dmm, your mom is really busy! i hope you'll let her take a little trip up here for some r&r after christmas.

Boy said...

Nice pwesents! I wove giving pwesents!

Daisy said...

What wonderful and creative gift ideas! That's a LOT of presents. I think your mom is a very hard worker!

Ramses said...

My Mummy says Trader Joe's is a great place, and your presents remind her of her great friend in Seattle that she's not seen in ages...

Purrs,
Ramses

Parker said...

Yikes, that's a lot of stuff to finish!

Chrissie said...

Your mom has been furry, furry busy making lots of gifts! My mom has just been screechin' for the Christmas program(she says it's singing), and is playing catch-up now.

Tyler said...

I'm sure your mom's friends and colleagues must look forward to her gifts every year. As you know, my mom's a teacher too and she has a long list of people to give to also, but she doesn't give handmade gifts like your mom. I guess that's my tattle, she store buys her gifts. Though one year she bought the ingredients to make the cookie mixes. She ran out of time and another two teachers had made them to SELL. Mommy even bought those handmade gifts. Since then she's stopped trying. Is your mom going to give anything to the custodians of the school. My mom just remembered hers the other day while in Walmart. The head custodian at her school does a super duper job. He's even the one who brought Sophie to my mom. He LOVES animals and if it's a cat he tries to get my mom to take it. He used to help my mom take care of her rats and hamster. They're long gone now.

Anyway good job on your gift giving and wrapping. You've done a marvelous job.

Jake and Bathsheba said...

Your mom sure is ambitious, DMM! My mom just doesn't have much energy this year.

Smooches,
~Jake

Toffee K. Ripple Fuzzypants & Feline American Angels said...

Mom's rapidly running out of steam. She's still got lots of stuff to do including writing the holiday letter for the family. Argh. I cannot wait until she's home for vacation.
DMM

Forty Paws said...

Holy cow! That's a whole ton of gifting! Good thing your Mom has the Christmas Spirit!

Luf, Us