February 20, 2007--frog

this cheery fellow was part of a smorgasboard of gifts from my grandma-in-law a few years ago. the family was doing a gift exchange where we each drew one name and then had to get a gift that was green. it was up to the giver whether they wanted to give a serious or a gag gift, but most of them were pretty funny. so, i don't even know if gma w. knows that my nickname is "phroggi" and that my family still has a habit of getting me frog-related gifts, but this guy was actually kind of cute, and i needed something to hold my scrubby things at the edge of the sink, so he lived there for a few years with a mouthful of green scratch pads. until this christmas when i got a beautiful new egg-shaped, baby blue thing that nigella lawson calls a "salt cellar" and which i call "a holder for my scrubbers" which is much less humorous, but much more attractive to me. so, i hope gma. w, that you are not offended that this froggy is going to hop on over to the thrift store where someone else will give him a new home.