Best and worst gifts

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Best gift? That's tough! I got my lovely wedding jewelry, which was probably the nicest "thing" I got-- but both of my siblings had excellent not-really-thing-y gifts.

My sister scanned in my grandmother's cookbook, complete with hi-res images of the well-loved food-spattered pages. Bits of biscuit dough made by my grandmother herself. It was really sweet.

My brother recently connected with my grandfather's sister. Long story short, my grandparents wouldn't let any of their children/grandchildren touch or see any of the family history, geneology, etc. But my grandfather's sister is much nicer. She allowed him to scan in my great-grandfather's memoir manuscript, the family tree, and some other things. From this we discovered an old family secret-- on my father's side, we're actually part Irish! And that both sides of my grandfather's ancestors came over on the Mayflower, not just Governor Bradford (about whom we knew.) My brother also bought us a Mayflower nonfic book with stories and pictures of artifacts owned by our now-traceable ancestors.

I didn't get a single bad gift! But Tom and I managed to give each other the same gift at the same time. But, unlike Alex, we enjoy the shopping. So exchanging will be fun.