{"id":6757,"date":"2012-12-03T23:38:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T04:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2015-12-05T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T13:46:24","slug":"on-the-angel-tree-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6757","title":{"rendered":"On the Angel Tree Package"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned a few days ago that I was putting together an Angel Tree package at the office. I talked about that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tonight I finished wrapping the thing, and tomorrow I’m going to take it to the office. MY work will be done.<\/p>\n

The tag I picked off the tree was for a seven year-old boy. He wanted LEGO, cars, and wrestling men. The tag also indicated his clothing sizes.<\/p>\n

I set myself a budget — 40 dollars. I came in under that budget.<\/p>\n

The hardest thing to find turned out to be the first thing I settled upon. He wanted LEGO and cars, and I thought that Hasbro’s KRE-O Transformers Optimus Prime<\/i> (small size, not the big size) would be pretty cool. It’s knock-off LEGO, true, but it’s also really well made. I should know, I have one at the office; Optimus has teamed up with the Cybermen to oversee their conversion complex. Anyway, it took some hunting to find this, which surprised me because it used to be everywhere.<\/p>\n

\"10151357047545482\"<\/p>\n

I bought some more knock-off LEGO. These Best-Lock car sets were two dollars each at Rite Aid.<\/p>\n

\"10151357047615482\"<\/p>\n

However, don’t think he wasn’t getting some real LEGO! Target offered this LEGO Batmobile<\/i> set for four dollars, and I picked up a Batman action figure, too. Kids like Batman. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I also picked up some Spider-Man<\/i> stuff — a puzzle and some flying discs — at Dollar Tree:<\/p>\n

\"10151357047730482\"<\/p>\n

He could use clothes, so I picked up two shirts at Target. I don’t know what colors work for him. I picked colors I would wear.<\/p>\n

\"10151357047705482\"<\/p>\n

And he could use some reading material, too! I had two copies of this book for some reason. I suspect I received one at the office for some reason or another. In any event, he can give it a good home. It’s LEGO, it has a minifig, and it’s vibrant and colorful.<\/p>\n

\"10151357047775482\"<\/p>\n

I wrote a letter to the little boy from Julenissen, Norway’s Christmas Gnome. We know him as Santa Claus, of course. It was fun to write, and Julenissen talks about a lot of things. He doesn’t live at the North Pole — there’s nothing there but ice — but he and his Elves, Dwarves, and Gnomes do live in a mighty castle (Slott Julenissen) north of the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. Julenissen had a lot to say, five pages worth!<\/p>\n

\"10151357047800482\"<\/p>\n

Here’s the pile of wrapped packages:<\/p>\n

\"10151357047810482\"<\/p>\n

The package has been repacked:<\/p>\n

\"10151357047850482\"<\/p>\n

There it is. All wrapped and ready to go to the office tomorrow:<\/p>\n

\"10151357047920482\"<\/p>\n

On Christmas morning, he’ll unwrap the big box, open it, and discover lots of other things inside.<\/p>\n

That’s going to be awesome. I hope he has a great Christmas. And if he has little brothers and sisters, I hope he shares. (Julenissen in his letter tells him he needs to share.)<\/p>\n

There you have it — my first-ever Angel Tree package. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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