Possibly overthought that, sis

So my sister prodded me to order a Mothers Day card in with my last food delivery so I could send it in plenty of time for Sunday. But while Asda do have an category for "Mothers Day presents and cards" it turned out to be all presents and no cards. So she told me she would sort something out, which turned out to be ordering one from Etsy to be delivered to me.

It finally turned up today - she ordered one for herself at the same time and it turned up last weekend - and I opened the package to find an envelope that was already addressed "Mam" and "do not open til Mothers Day", and was sealed. So immediately I knew I was going to have to find another envelope to post it in - fortunately it was a relatively small card - and to break the seal - fortunately it was just a single sticker I could carefully peel loose rather than the whole glued seal.

And inside it already says "To Mam, with love on Mother Day, from David x". She could have had it sent to her instead and just handed it to my mother on Sunday.

I managed to squeeze in "Looking forward to hugging you for real", which was made harder by not having a great deal of space and the paper for the card being made with wild flower seeds in, so my pen kept going askew every time I hit one, making my writing even worse than normal. And now it's resealed and in the post and god knows if the post office will deliver it in time given the current delays (I got more Christmas cards after the New Year than before Christmas). And of course it was peeing down on the one day this week I needed to go out.

Discussing it with my sister afterwards "Yeah, I vaguely remember writing in a message, but then I must have changed my mind and had it sent to you instead". Genius!

Oh well, hopefully it arrives.

(The other slightly weird thing is that the order acknowledgement card has an individually packed biscuit and a tea bag glued to it. While I can see what they were aiming for I'm not sure I'd trust a single biscuit to the mercies of the post on a regular basis!)