On the first day of Christmas my true love sent me a partridge in a pear tree.
Leslie walked into her office at the Parks and recreation section of city hall. She had a mug of cream and sugar, with maybe an inch off coffee, in one hand and a fresh binder full of ideas in the other hand. She had woken up after her usual 3 hour a night sleep with a swarm of ideas ranging anywhere from new fountains in the parks to a new way to destroy libraries. She had quickly gotten up and grabbed the first unused binder she could find in her bedroom and wrote down all the ideas.
It wasn't unusual for Leslie to have a grand idea after she woke up, so she had a stack of binders, for when an idea popped into her head, on the floor close to her bed. She had recently started to have to realistic dreams of a certain co-worker, so that when she woke up she was more inclined to write them down in her dream journal, then write down the ideas she had brainstormed in her sleep.
On this fine December Tuesday morning she walked into her office to find a gift on her desk. A tree made of licorice as branches and gum drops as peddles. Sitting on one of the branches there was a yellow Peep, the candy shaped like birds that you can get around Easter. Leslie stared at it in amazement. If there was one thing that Leslie loved more than local government, it was candy. She ran over to her desk, dropping the binder and the coffee on Toms desk without thinking. Closer examination of the little piece of heaven could see that there was a card attached to the back. It read in what was very apparent to be a mans handwriting.
On the first day of Christmas your secret admirer sent you a Peep in a yummy tree.
Leslie smiled at the note in wonder, she had never had a secret admirer before.
Author Note: I'm going to try to make up for the days that I missed so that all twelve days are completed on Christmas day!