When I went to pick up my mail at the Post Office today, there was a slip informing me that they were holding a box too large for my mailbox.  It was an early birthday gift from one of my best friends, the lovely Cara!  She’s spending this year of her life working at an orphanage in Ecuador and, really, let that sentence sink in for a minute.  She’s living.  In a foreign country.  To take care of babies.

If I didn’t already love her for that, I’d love her for the fact that, in my box of birthday gifts, she sent a hammock with a note explaining to that I am to hang it in the 18 feet that separate my house from Clay’s.  What a fun gift, no?