Alyice on December 10th, 2009

Thanks For The Xmas Gift

As I was checking email this morning, I heard a faint ring of the doorbell. “Who’d show up at this hour?” I thought. Immediately I dismissed the doorbell, but there it was again. In the near five years that we’ve lived here, nobody has ever come to our home this early, except one person. I should have guessed it was our landlord.

And he came with such a treat! Ground beef, a lovely Christmas card, and our rent check, uncashed!

He and his wife live on a farm—a money producing farm. The home we live in is his childhood home—which was passed down to him when his parents died. We rarely speak with him and his wife, but on the rare occasion that we do, they are always well-mannered, kind, and loving. I have to say that they are probably the nicest people, aside from the Bos family (our next door neighbors who moved away at the beginning of the year), that we have met since moving to South Dakota nearly five years ago.

Since I’ve already blogged about them here I won’t bore you with the details again. Suffice it to say, renting this place, is one of the reasons we aren’t ready to pack up and move to Sioux Falls anytime soon—even if making friends in the area is difficult and damn near impossible.

Give thanks…

P.S.

In case you’re wondering, the card came with a beautiful family photo and reads:

What can I give Him, Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb.
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part – -
Yet, what can I give him,
Give my heart.
– Christina Rosetti

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Gena says:
What a lovely story and always nicer when it’s in the form of a surpise!! Hope you had a blessed Christmas day!!! Wishing you all the best for the new year, Alyice!!
Gena
Posted at 8:50 am December 29th, 2009

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