This Christmas week has been glorious – gloriously busy, gloriously blessed, and gloriously frustrating. \u00a0I can only begin to skim the surface in telling you how much joy and delight filled our Monday night, when we opened our family Christmas gifts… there’s nothing more satisfying than giving gifts to family, and we were so blessed in our giving this year. \u00a0As usual, however, Paul had the most fun of all. \u00a0When I opened the one gift from him, I found a gorgeous new 18-135mm lens for my camera… only it seemed he had forgotten that my camera is a Nikon, and spent way too much money on a Canon lens.<\/p>\n
Oh well, I reassured him, I can always exchange it. I was quite choked up that he would have thought to give me something so nice – even if it wasn’t quite the right fit!<\/p>\n
Then he said wait — maybe I have something else for you. \u00a0So he went out to the shed and came back in with another box. \u00a0Inside, I found another gorgeous lens – a macro – but again, a Canon mount, totally wrong for my D3100. \u00a0I was feeling really bad for him at that point, and and staying up-beat so he wouldn’t be bummed that he’d forgotten something so critical as my camera make and model when shopping for me.<\/p>\n
Finally he said WAIT wait wait, I might have something else back there…. by now, everyone was laughing and asking just HOW many more things he might have stashed away, to which he replied “Oh I don’t know, it’s hard to say…”<\/p>\n
So he comes back in with yet another box, and I open it. \u00a0Inside I find …. a\u00a0Canon Rebel T5i Digital SLR Camera<\/a>!!! <\/strong><\/em>And a few other nifty additions, not the least of which (and boy will I need this) — the\u00a0Canon EOS Rebel T5i\/700D For Dummies<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I was completely destroyed. \u00a0I cried my face off. (I deleted the picture of the streaming mascara… a little more candid than I could handle!) It was too much. \u00a0Not merely the expense – I’m used to my beloved spending extravagantly on me by this time. \u00a0It is just that thing they tell you about “love languages” — well, my sweetie speaks mine fluently. \u00a0And the name of my love language is: Camera!<\/strong> <\/em>\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n [hr color=”dark-gray” width=”15%” border_width=”2px” ]<\/p>\n