This is how I see it in the preexistance. I was really really good friends with all sorts of people and then I had like maybe 100 best best friends and we probably spent all day making each other laugh while we bounced on clouds.
And I am pretty sure that within that 100 included 3 girl angels that on this earth make up my dream team. Oh gosh Shellie GAG me with a spoon!! But I’m serious!!! So my dream team friendship began like this… I wrote a post about being depressed, then Sheryl who had been reading my blog for awhile posted a comment, then a little while later Michelle who is Sheryl’s BFF posted a comment that her and Sheryl read my blog over the phone to each other and laughed a whole bunch, and then I emailed Sheryl and Michelle thanking them for their comments, and then I introduced them to Melinda because Mel is my twin and I knew that Sheryl and Michelle would love her and in my world the 4 of us would make up the ultimate dream team!
The best thing is that I know I can say my CRAZIEST wack a doo idea and they would all be game. And you all better believe I have some crazy wack a doo ideas and Chad has had to listen to them for the past 8 years but never wanted to be a participant so its nice that I can say to these girls “Lets do this (insert weird funny idea) Wouldn’t that be fun?” and they’ll all be like “YES!!!”
So then we were getting winter blues like big time so we thought it would be fun to do a package swap to cheer each other up and so for the first month the theme was Spring… i had Michelle’s name, Michelle had Melinda’s, Sheryl had mine and Melinda had Sheryl’s… i know thats a lot to follow. The rules were $15-20, you could include home made stuff, and you take pictures and blog when you got your package!
So I get home from DisneyWorld and I had a package waiting for me on the counter from Sheryl!!!!
i had to take a pic of how freaking cute Sheryl’s handwriting is. I would chop off her hands and use them as my own but then the nerve endings would be all fried so then my handwriting would be all bellspalsy so I guess that would destroy the purpose of chopping off her hands.
cute note that explained it all… including the meaning of life
note cards to wish people happy birthday or thank you or maybe even “you owe me money” basically anything you write in a pretty note card just comes across so thoughtful :)
see how I used the packaging grass as a background for all the pictures! this is a sweet little sticker jar… inside… homemade stickers!
Kate loved looking at all the stickers with “jewlies” and making up stories for them.
CHOCOLATE! and I thought to myself “Self you gained 7lbs while you were on vacation don’t eat the chocolate right now… make it last for a month or so…” but then after about an hour I had eaten the whole Symphony bar (on the left with the homemade wrapper) I told Sheryl that I would take that wrapper and use it for like 20 years every time I ate a King size symphony bar… until the paper just disintegrated.
Oh and I know you might not be able to see but the flower on the symphony bar was a flower clip for kate :) cute cute!
The yellow bag was filled with hershey kisses!
and the cutest spring table runner ever. Thats the great thing about package swaps is you get really cute stuff that you totally would love but can’t justify getting for yourself because you think “oh I could use that $$ for something else like a stupid power bill”
Thanks Sheryl!!! It was so fun getting a present just for the sake of brightening my day and also picking and making other fun things for someone else to lift their spirits.
It makes me want to give dream packages to the whole world now! I am grateful for all my friends… old and new… it makes life more exciting having tons of people in your life who you get to share things with.
