
This is Mary Ann from A Joyful Chaos Monica asked me if I would be willing to do a guest post for her and I was happy to consent.
The Christmas season seems to bring out the best in people. For a few weeks every year people are friendlier, a little more patient, there is a little more goodwill towards their fellow men.
With a woodworking shop, we used to be blessed with more fudge and fruitcakes than we could possibly eat, presented to us by happy customers. Most times we would sample everything and feed the rest to the chickens. One year, we were once again overwhelmed with a flood of fruitcakes of every shape and size. After sampling all we cared to eat, my brothers asked our parents if they could have the rest. My parents were happy to give them permission and the fruitcakes disappeared.
On Christmas morning when we exchanged our gifts those fruitcakes appeared again, but were now transformed. They had taken them and let them set for a few days to dry out and then sprayed them with lacquer. They looked surprisingly pretty with their glossy finish. They could now serve as doorstops, bookends, and a footstool. We got to enjoy those fruitcakes for a long time. So now when ever I see a fruitcake, I no longer groan. I have learned that you can transform almost everything in life to something good if you try hard enough. Even a fruitcake.
This cracks me up!! One newscaster told the story one time of how they've had the same fruitcake in the family for years. They re-gift it every year. MaryAnn did a post about making a homemade fruitcake that takes like 45 days or something and that's something that I'd actually like to attempt at some point in time. That's on my "bucket list". ♥ I bet those fruitcakes weighed a ton by the time her brothers were through with them!
ReplyDeleteI never heard the likes... This strikes me funny.
ReplyDeleteLove the story...fist time I ever heard of turning a fruitcake into a door stop... :)
ReplyDeleteI love visiting A Joyful Chaos...and reading her wonderful stories...Merry Christmas to you!
That was great thanks for sharing.. I've never had a fruitcake giving to use and I don't even know how to make one.. Thanks again for sharing... Blessings sisterbrenda
ReplyDeleteOh, how funny and creative!! I love your brothers' ingenuity.
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