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Thursday, December 31, 2009
 
9:11 PM

Scotch Tape



I know. It's just a .25 roll of tape. But it's been years since I have seen it packaged in the vintage Scottish plaid container. I have missed it. I always loved the red, yellow, and green plaid because it reminds me of Christmas. And of course, this is the tape that my mom used to use for wrapping gifts and many was the time when she would run out mid-wrap and announce a spontaneous run to town to get another. During the Christmas season, the stores always stayed open late so I LOVED having an excuse to go downtown and soak up some of the holiday atmosphere. I suspect my mom did too since she clearly could have kept extra rolls of tape on hand, but always chose to make those tape runs instead. : ) Go Mom.


Also, there were a couple of years wherein they marketed Christmas tape that perfectly matched the wrapping paper that they were selling in the stores. The tape looked exactly like the wrapping paper so when you wrapped a gift using it, the tape was almost impossible to see. My mom and I thought that was super cool so we bought a lot of that and, because she wanted the tape to match all of the packages, we had to make a lot of extra runs to town for more because she ran out often. Looking back, I realize she could have just bought several rolls at once rather than running back to town every time she ran out but I realize she loved going downtown to soak up the Christmas atmosphere as much as I did so she purposely let herself run out so we'd have an excuse to go back to town.  No sweeter mom ever walked the face of this earth and that's why Bernie and I always had the msot magical Christmases imaginable, no matter what the family budget looked like on any given year.



If I close my eyes, I can still see the beautiful lights and other decorations and I can hear the sound of music and a ringing bell coming from the Salvation Army booth that always sat in front of Woolworth and Ben Franklin's during Christmas. Mmmm. I miss childhood Christmas and I love, love, LOVE my sweet mama.