Our kids have a $1 gift bazaar at school so we gave our youngest a few bucks to buy his gifts. THe teachers help them make a budget and calculate what they can pick out. He got Sister a tube of lip gloss, a screw driver for dad, a toy car for Bubba and for me ... he snuck in with something behind his back. Eyes got real big when he saw me.
“Mom! Don’t LOOK at your CANDLE!”
STill chuckling about that.
I got the two things on my list; new slippers and underwear.
Both, needed desperately.
The best present was my best friend of 37 years and my son’s Godfather, came with a turkey and some goodies to share with us. And, spent the whole day!
It was a great Christmas! I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
Our PTA did that for the kids every year. They were so sweet when they came in and so anxious to get just the right thing. One year my son bought a mug for me that said “Moms like you are an endangered species” and it had a picture of a lion on it. When we were talking with grandma on the phone Christmas day, I told my son to tell grandma about the mug he had gotten for me. He proudly told her the mug said, “Moms like you SHOULD be an endangered species”! Still makes me laugh after more than 10 years.