Christmas 2007 friend poem

"Weigh Every Choice" When opening your gift this year, With shock you’ll say, “A scale?” Therefore, the many reasons It’s important I shall tell: For measuring ingredients, ensuring right amounts; To have a perfect outcome of a meal. If all your weights and measurements Are accurate and just right, Your friends will think you cook with style and skill. When thinking of a kitchen scale, A diet comes to mind, But if you’re thinking smart You’ll know there’s more, That kitchen scales can do To make your meals have great appeal; And make them turn out wonderful for sure. Let’s say you’re making apple pie, You go into the store And purchase five green apples for the treat. A European recipe is not amounts, but grams; Which makes your apple pie more full and sweet! You’ll find much more consistency When using kitchen scales, And thus, a more successful finished dish. So go enjoy your kitchen scales And everything they weigh, And may this Christmas grant your greatest wish. And while we’re weighing foods to eat, There’s more that we have weighed, We’ve weighed the many choices Through our life that we have made. Now it seems to me a kitchen scale Could represent our life, And the choices we each make While we serve as mom and wife. I’ve weighed so many times how You’ve been “weigh” great friends to me. I’ve weighed our many lunches That have filled my life with glee. We’ve weighed the “weigh” we’ve raised our kids-- Too harsh or else too easy? Yet still, no matter how we chose, It wasn’t always breezy. A scale is quite consistent, Though adjustments must be made. Along the “weigh” we’ve also Altered attitudes, and prayed. As there are many kinds of scales, There are many kinds of friends. You’ve helped show me the “weigh” to go For enduring to the end. With every thought and action, With every word and deed, You’ve weighed your choices wisely-- You’re a great and awesome breed. You’ve given me so many years Of therapy and fun. Your friendship weighs so precious When my Christmas day is done.