What a great surprise!
Posted in New Stuff by: Alisa
Scott’s coworkers all signed a card and gave Truman a huge bag of Bionicles and Legos. Scott said he had something to bring home but I wasn’t expecting such a generous gift. And they all signed the card! What do you say to a kid that you don’t know who broke his arm? They were all really cute and clever and sweet and it really made me feel like Scott was being taken care of at work if his coworkers would take the time to do this for Truman.
My favorites for the card was when Jamie said “Drink lots of milk!” and right next to her Bryan wrote, “Forget the milk. Go straight for the ice cream.” Truman lit up when I read that to him. ”Yeah mom!! Let’s have some ice cream!”
I cannot tell you how well the Bionicles are going over. All four kids (Jessica our neighbor is with us Mon – Thr) are all in the boy’s room totally engulfed in them. The other great thing about the gifts is that they were really, really well thought out. The gift came with three balloons (two of which are already popped thanks to our textured ceiling) and there were three sets of Bionicles. One for each boy! Whoever picked everything out knew what they were doing. One smart cookie!
Needless to say Truman is totally thrilled that for no other reason than he has a cast on he got some presents. I’m thrilled because we’ve been spending A LOT of time indoors so that Truman doesn’t re-injure his arm (we met a girl at the pool yesterday who had pins in her elbow that she somehow bent so the Dr.s had to re-break her arm to get the pins out and then reset it again. Not something I want to go through or have Truman go through.) It’s always great to have a new activity that the kids are excited about. Quietly playing with. So all in all this was an incredible surprise.
Has your work ever surprised you like this?
August 5th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
That is pretty rad. I love co-workers that are real human beings. I mean, you end up spending a HUGE portion of your life with them…. its nice to reach out a little on a personal level too. YES, whoever put that packages together MUST be in the know…. AKA …. a MOM.
Chris has had a few co-workers over the years surprise us with baby gifts, or a random Disney DVD that they got double of kind of thing. So nice. I try to reciprocate by making cookies or whatever and have Chris bring those in.
Bionicals are super awesome. Glad the boys are diggin ‘em!
August 5th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
That is awesome! Kinda makes little medical traumas a little more worth it:)? When we had Macie Rich’s work gave us a $100 gift card to Costco. It was great. It was so well thought out also–diapers, wipes, etc. I’m glad for Truman though. He deserves a little spoiling right now.