When I was a teenager my parents would send me off to camp for the summer. The one thing I looked forward to more than letters from family was a care package from my parents. Some girls got a care package every single week packed with food, random junk that would make us laugh, and pictures. Though I was not lucky enough to get a package every single week, the one or two packages that I did receive were always the best! Since my mom owns a gift basket company, my care packages were never casually thrown into a cardboard box, but instead were presented in a beautiful basket wrapped in bows. Not only was the packaging incomparable, but my mom's company has access to products which you can't buy off the shelves in your local big box store. My packages were always filled with gourmet food such as dried strawberries, exceptional chocolate bars, fruit and nut mixes, tea and hot chocolate, and one of a kind cookies and candies.. I would always share my baskets with my friends and for years after, my camp friends would ask me where my mom had found certain delicacies that they had only ever had in the contents of my camp care packages. a few months ago I moved cross country for school after twenty one years of living in the same state as my parents. Although full-on homesickness hasn't set in yet, it has been difficult being away from my friends and family and there are days which are harder than others. A week or so ago I got an unexpected package. I tore the box open to find a gift basket much like the ones my mom used to send me at camp. It contained 'energy' jelly beans, fruit and nut mix, gourmet chocolate bars and cookies, some of the best granola bars I've ever had in my life, and my bike bell which I had left behind at my parents' house. 
Friday, August 12, 2011
College Student's Gift A Care Package
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