The best part about doing it in the carport is that bicycle parking was close and convenient!





It was a lot of fun!!! For the people in my neighborhood, I took a gift to the lady who sale tortillas on my corner and thank you notes and bags of candy to the cafe I visit a couple times a week. It was really awesome to see the shocked faces and have people that saw me give the gifts ask who I was. A reoccurring thought this year was, "How do I reflect an extravagant gift giver?" Well it needs to be unexpected, undeserved and from the heart, and importantly not to someone who is going to pay you back or can. I received a gift like that when a national friend picked me up and drove me around to run errands. I hadn't asked her, I hadn't expected it of her, I was stressed out, she is the mother of three young kids so her time is quite valuable, but, with her help, what would have taken 2 or 3 hours took 40 minutes. I guess it doesn't really have to be Christmas nor do you need anything from the store in order to be a giver.