Because without my mom's careful over-packing of Jeff's Christmas present, there might have been a catastrophe!
I had my mom order Jeff's present, since there was really no way I could do it and still keep it a secret (which it still is, so....) and she mailed it to me the other day. It arrived today, and thanks to our mail carrier being... not so careful, shall we say... the package ended up sticking mostly out of our mailbox, where it got thoroughly rained on all day. (I had some yarn suffer the same fate recently. I was NOT happy.) Luckily, Mom put the present into a padded envelope, which she them stuffed into another, larger padded envelope, and so only the outer envelope was drenched. Contents all nice and dry! Yay!
And now, since I'm fighting off some sort of bug, I am off to cuddle a cat. 'Night!
Phew! Yay for moms, indeed. And boo to the mail carrier, as well. I had an envelope clearly marked "do not bend" bent into my box the other day, and it was just luck that the gift inside was not damaged. Ugh.
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