Four calling birds

I've never really given much thought to the words of the Christmas classic, The Twelve Days of Christmas. Never before this year anyway. A week ago today, I received a Christmas Tree candle as a gift from a student. My first thought was, Wow - it's early to be getting gifts! Then, the next day, from the same student I received 2 Christmas ornaments. It took me awhile but I finally got it. I was experiencing my very own twelve days of Christmas. The third day was three gift bags, the fourth was four pieces of fudge, the fifth was a $5 Sonic Card, and today I got six bows. It has been very fun to receive a gift each day.

The experience got even better when on Monday another student began their very own daily gift-giving. Monday I received a Starbucks card, Tuesday I got two Dove chocolate bars, Wednesday I received three candy cane pens, and today was the funniest thing ever. I opened up the little package and found four bird ornaments:



Do you get it? It's four calling birds! Well, two of the four calling birds. They're on the telephone. I think this might be one of the best gifts I've ever been given. It obviously doesn't take much to make me happy!