CTHB

[Allow me a moment to be nostalgic about a moment on the dance floor where I got to hold my just-married sister and share a good cry.]

My sister got her wedding present from me, the Best Man, and two of the groom's friends from Toronto today. The coordination between getting a card signed by all of us, having the gift shipped to my Mom's and then having the whole lot wrapped and delivered took a little time.

Sis and Mom work at the same college, so Mom drove her home. Mom forgot to give her the gift while she was in the car so shortly after getting home, Sis got a knock on the door with Mom bearing a gift. "Are they pei dan?" my sister asked. Pei dan are preserved eggs and the package was about the right size for the boxes that the eggs come in. I can imagine my Mom's reaction as she told her that they weren't eggs. Exit Mom, backstage.

When Sis and Matt started opening the gift, they didn't even know what it was. The things were so new in Canada (and even the US) that they had yet to hear of them.

We bought them iPod nanos, one white, one black.

"These are smaller than some of the snack wafers I eat."

Matt got the black one and Sheree got the white one. They didn't notice the engraving until later and then they realised how perfectly they had gravitated to their respective iPod.

The white one read:

You can probably guess that the black one read:

So my voice message had this giddy, jumping-for-glee sister bubbling about her new iPod and Matt's new iPod and how hers says "Hers" and his says "His" and how they were both installing them right now.

I heard later that they had gone out that evening and Sheree had been lightly rubbing circles on Matt's back as they were riding the elevator and Matt was singing and changing volume like the iPod when you roll your thumb around the scroll wheel.

You guys rock. We're thrilled.

(Where's my couch?)