When John and I were married, we received several unexpected
wedding gifts. There were three toaster ovens. My mom’s friend gave us an
industrial-sized tub of Vaseline. (She’s probably still laughing.) One of John’s
relatives gave us hand-made gifts: a sock monkey, a clown doll made of yo-yos,
and an Afghan crocheted from hundreds of scraps of yarn. There was a set of days-of-the-week
embroidered dish towels: Monday was washday, ironing was Tuesday. Wednesday was
for mending, etc. I actually used the dish towels until I wore them out. To this day I mourn their loss. The yo-yo clown fell apart, and I didn’t know how to
fix it. We re-gifted the toaster ovens. They quickly became presents at other weddings. It took us a decade to use up the Vaseline, but it was a genuine
life saver. Diaper rash is a much bigger deal when you only use cloth diapers. I
still treasure the sock monkey and the Afghan.
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