T-Shirts Galore
Welcome to the first of five shoppping guides, coming to you from the heart of Nannie, my gone-but-not-forgotten mother-in-law. She taught me everything I ever needed to know about creating the perfect holiday season; we started at her house for Thanksgiving and the joy went on through her son's birthday on January 2nd. There were gifts by the hearth in the dining room when the kids arrived from the airport, and they were always exactly the right gift. She listened. She planned. She bought when she found it and stashed it in the closet until it was time to wrap. She kept only-used-once-or-twice sheets of gift paper in the closet under the front steps; the massive rolls for holiday use lived in the sun porch. Unheated, the bed covered with detritus of the season, the room offered a quiet escape when the festivities got to be too much. "I'm going up to wrap," could buy me an hour of peace and quiet. Nannie wrapped everything. It to...