A Wooden Spoon from my Sister

As I related in my earlier blog post, Exposed to my Sister, I spilled the beans to my sister Susan, and hoped that she might be interested in some more active participation. That was about a week ago, and I've heard nothing since. Until last night that is. Turns out Susan has just been playing coy and was planning a Christmas surprise for david and I all along. My sister is great.

Christmas Eve went as planned, with about a dozen guests over at my place. We opened gifts in the living room around the tree after dinner. It's all very organised, with little elves handing out gifts one at a time, and then everybody getting up and kissing the gift giver, and on to the next gift, and so on. I played head elf.

When it came to david's first turn, I got one of the kids to hand him his gift from me to open: his new apron (see my Christmas Eve Aproning post for that). I made him put it on, and then in front of the whole family I thanked him for all the help with the housework. I told him I loved him and gave him a big kiss. He endured a little choice teasing as a result, mainly from my younger sister and brother. Younger sister asked "does he do windows?"  Younger brother looked to the side at his girlfriend and said "whi-ipped" in a stage whisper, and she suppressed a laugh. Sue said "well I think it's sweet." I thought I might have seen a bit of a blush there on david!

A few more gifts were exchanged, and when it was david's turn again he opened his gift from Sue. It was a set of wooden spoons! Nobody else thought anything of it, except maybe that it was strange that david, who never cooks, gets a set of cooking utensils. Sue said "Julie can show you how those should be used. Or, if you like, I can come over and show you also."

Before david had a chance to react, I quickly jumped in with "go kiss Susan, david, for the nice gift" (the same thing we had been telling the children all night. Ha Ha!). david went over and Sue turned her cheek to him, and david planted a big kiss on her cheek, and definitely did blush!

Unfortunately, the evening was over before we could do anything with those spoons (Sue had to drive Mom and Dad home - drats!). I did get her alone a bit, and chided her for being so evil. She laughed and said, "I know what you wanted when you told me, and I'd be happy to lend a hand anytime. Just say the word." OMG. Does Sue know me, or what???

Did I mention that my sister is great!

By coincidence, I was looking at updates from some of the other blogs, and Andy had posted the below on his Merry Christmas post. The moment I saw it, it reminded me of david receiving those wooden spoons from Sue. It was like him being publicly outed in front of the whole family, but with only him, Sue, and me knowing! I imagine he felt like I had dressed him up and sent him out there to open up his gift from Sue, just like in the drawing. I altered the drawing a tad to fit the sit better (no disrespect to the artist!).

david receiving his gift from my big sister Sue in front of my whole family