(That statement is untrue. A hippopotamus actually will not do at all.)
BlogHer is featuring a variety of holiday gift guides this month- gift guides for pet lovers, for the entrepreneur, for co-workers, for that girl down the street that sometimes waves at you when you pass by her house while pushing the stroller. (She’s totally warming up to me.)
Anyhow, they asked me to look through their gift guides and pick out a few of my favorite things. Please wrap these in brown paper packages and tie them with string. See what I did there?
I clicked on the gift guide for entrepreneurs because I like to fancy myself one. I have a very vivid imagination. In elementary school I was sent to the principal’s office for a dramatic short story I wrote about an alcoholic stepfather. My parents were like “what in the heckfire?!” But a magazine subscription to a business publication is really a great gift for a working mom. I personally love Working Mother and Inc. My Inc. subscription has totally run out too, so if you were wondering what to get me I second this suggestion.
Then I clicked on the ideas for homemade gifts because I’ve got a drawer full of sequins and a hot glue gun, folks. One of the suggestions was a gift basket of tea or coffee. Let me tell you how I feel about that. My baby?* She likes to wake up at dark thirty. If I stumble into the kitchen before it’s light outside and discover that we are out of coffee or, worse, that we are out of vanilla chai? My day just got real, y’all. And if you give a basket of caffeine to someone like me, you’re going to become their new favorite person at five thirty on a Thursday morning when they’re all “OH CRUMB I FORGOT TO BUY COFFEE! Oh wait? What is this? It’s that gift basket from my Aunt Gladys! The one with the tiny bags of coffee in it! BLESS YOU AUNT GLADYS!”
(They also recommend this recipe for DIY Brownie Mix and I know you might be thinking “Seriously? Again with the food?” but really, why WOULDN’T you give me brownie mix? That’s just a fail safe right there. There’s no way I’m not going to like brownies. That would just be crazy.)
And then I’d round the whole thing out with the book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishigur because I could read it while I drank my coffee and ate my brownies. Plus, I hear the movie version stars Keira Knightley and we all know I’m always up for anything that allows me to do my amazing Keira Knightley impression. (I’m really very good. Probably SNL should call me up anytime now.)
(*okay fine, my baby is actually a toddler now but that just drives home my point even more)
This post is part of BlogHer’s Holiday Gift Guides editorial series, sponsored by Open Road Media.
