I have her. Or I guess I shall say we have her. Our family, that is. We have the bestest great Auntie. Auntie Kay, that is. She is awesome. For as long as I can remember she will send boxes (sometimes at random times of the year) covered in the coolest stickers to you. The boxes are always stuffed to the brim. There is ALWAYS something she has knitted in the box and usually other random things such as calendars, pencils, you name it.
Her gifts are special and forever kept. For my high school graduation she sent me the cutest little paper mache heart box with a handkerchief and I had yet to meet my great Auntie Kay at this point in my life. As you can see, I still have these to this day. I think there was even a pencil or two with them and at the time I thought what the heck?!
In the last several years though knitting has been her thing…I mean REALLY been her thing. Four Thanksgivings ago we got a huge box of hand knitted hats for our entire family and took a family photo of all of us with our hats on~it was hilarious. The problem is, see…we all have big heads. Ginormous, actually. And I think her head is average. Some of her hats fit, some are a little snug so when a box comes everyone goes a’ diggin’ looking for one that will fit them. It isn’t as much about which one matches your winter coat as it is about which one fits your gigantic head. Man alive I wish I could find that family picture but I can’t, darnit.
Fast forward to Nana’s beach bash~the family reunion in July, 2007. Great Auntie Kay came and brought a knitted hat for everyone…yep, all 70ish of us!!!! It was amazing. So so cool to look around at all of us big headed people (not in that way~well kind of sometimes I guess) wearing these great hats. Below is my Pepe and late Nana in theirs.
Last week another Auntie Kay box arrived adorned in many stickers once again. A pocket calendar was in it as well. Four pair of booties were in it and 20 hand knitted hats. She hand wrote a note saying that she ran out of yarn and got tired so she was sorry if there wasn’t enough for everyone. The thing is, see….there was. Plenty. Everyone in our family got something from Auntie Kay. Seeing how I (puffing chest out proudly now) got to dig through the box first after my mom opened it I actually found a hat that fit AND matches my winter coat! Yes, it is pink and red but that is ok…it’s from Auntie Kay!!!!
Her latest shipment…
