Umbrellas and Anthon Berger

This year for Christmas I got two umbrellas and two boxes of Anthon Berger chocolates. I was expecting the umbrella from my niece. We talked about how I'd begun carrying long, full-sized umbrellas because of my unfortunate proclivity for losing the folding ones. But I need a folding one for when I take public transportation and I had left my last one at the yoga studio. I also got a folding umbrella from my friend Kathleen. Add the one I bought myself on sale for Black Friday and I now have three. Let's see how long it takes me to lose all of them. 

Then there are the boozy chocolates. I'd never heard of Anthon Berger chocolate liqueurs and now I have two gift sets. They are kind of neat. Each foil-wrapped bottle is 2" in. high, made of dark chocolate, and filled with booze. I got one from Kathleen and another from my friend Mindy and her husband, Alan. I haven't tried any of them yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

It's funny. Mindy and Kathleen met once, more than a decade ago, at my mom's funeral. So I'm fascinated that they came up with the same gift for me, and something I previously didn't even know existed.