The Daily Rant: The Best Gift Of All

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

The Best Gift Of All

I think the best gift I've gotten this entire Christmas season came from my sister-in-law.

This week, she and I were driving around doing some last minute shopping and running some errands. She's a year younger than I am, a size 4/6 on a fat day and has the sweetest disposition of anyone I know. She is the perfect blend of beautiful and nice. It's been a long time since we've had a chance to hang out like this and I just had a fantastic day.

My gift came when she turned to me and said, "How come you don't have any wrinkles??"

Ah, yes. The best gift of all.

3 comments:

Anocsanamun said...: I LOVE IT!; 12/26/2005 6:26 PM
Becky said...: What a wonderful gift! Hope your Christmas was all you wanted it to be.; 12/26/2005 8:39 PM
mdrock said...: I hope you told her that your wrinkle-free face was do to living such a clean and chaste life :-); 12/27/2005 8:28 AM

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