One of my favorite things is when there are things that fit inside of boxes. For example, I love those Russian matryoshka dolls, the doll that nests inside the doll that nests inside the doll--but really I just sort of love anything that nests inside a box. Here are some of the boxes filled with things that have arrived at our house lately:
1. A head full of books:
This is the latest issue of McSweeney's: a box in the shape of a head, filled with pieces of novels, stories, oral histories, poetry, and cards. Patrick gave me a subscription last Christmas, and it's seriously the most fun subscription I've ever had: you never know if you're going to get a standard book-like literary magazine, or a severed head box full of books. Awesome! You can't see from this picture, but the bottom of the box is a cross-section of the guy's neck. Gross! Yet amazing!
2. A "dairy milk" advent calendar:
This has been here since the beginning of December, actually: an advent calendar, sent "to Seamus" (i.e. Patrick) from Patrick's sisters in Ireland. In Ireland, they say "dairy milk" for what we call "milk chocolate," and in America, Patrick likes to have an Irish advent calendar to make it really feel like Christmas.
3. Presents! (Shhh, those are surprises; no photos yet!)
4. The boxes that they ship presents in:
Sorry for the blurry quality of the photo, but it's impossible to get a non-blurry one to go with this theme because Dude plays with such great, speedy gusto with empty cardboard boxes. He does his own version of the hokey-pokey, putting stuff in a box and then taking it out, sticking his face in the box and then taking it out, and then he "drives" the boxes around the house. I really don't know why we bothered to buy him actual presents--not only will the paper and ribbon be more interesting than the gifts themselves on Christmas morning, the plain cardboard boxes are apparently the best toys he's ever had.
5. A wintertime CSA box:
The CSA program we do usually only sells their veggies in the spring, summer, and fall, but they have occasional wintertime "boxes." (At the pick-up site, the veggies were actually in a box. But the farm recycles the boxes, so along the way it became a plastic bag full of things.) Beets, carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, parsnips, onions, cilantro, and lettuce, oh my! Yum!
What boxes are arriving at your house these days?
That McSweeney's box looks intriguing -- I think I'll have to subscribe this year!
ReplyDeleteI love it that you are writing, Vee. So fun to read!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely get a subscription, Mom, and thanks, Tash!
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