Today is the day after Thanksgiving, which means it’s ‘changing of the guard’ for my chapstick. To my dismay, Burt’s Bees has discontinued the flavor, Ginger Spice.
That’s my, “Abuela Chapstick”?!!!! So I thought this would be the last season I will use it so I will just finish it. I was supposed to start something new on December 1, but I won’t this time.
I wanted to see how much Chapstick I had left so I pushed it all out and thought to push it back in, but it won’t go back in so I have a “Bag-o-Chapstick”
That’s all that’s left of my Chapstick that reminds me of my Abuela. I can still see and smell her house! I can hear her chanclas shuffling across the kitchen floor.
I think that house has been gone since I was in middle school. When I put my Chapstick on this morning, I smiled to myself and told my Mom, “My lips taste good” I thought of her and Montgomery Wards and the show Alf with fondness…