2/8: receiving a gift

...for Valentine's Day from my mother.  When we were growing up, each winter we'd put gumdrops, small marshmallows, and LifeSaver candies on the branches of a small, clear plastic tree (like this).  In a burst of sweet nostalgia, my mother sent me and my siblings our own trees this year, along with a big bag of red cinnamon and white peppermint gumdrops with which to decorate it.