29 Gifts, Day 4 - The Gift of Life

Yes, today I gave the gift of life.  I spent half of the day cleaning and organizing the kids' rooms, and two hours this evening at IKEA with 8 zillion other people, and I didn't kill or maim anyone.  The thought crossed my mind, but I counted to 10 seven hundred and fifty-two times and kept my cool.  While I was cleaning Aliya's room I told Adlani and Norah to put whatever they wanted to donate to the school yard sale out in the hall.  This is what I found when I ventured out of Aliya's room:

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I felt like I needed to give a "real" gift, so I bought a dozen pairs of socks for the preschool nurse.  She had socks and underwear on her wish list, so when I was putting up the wish list board I asked her what style of underwear she wore.  She hesitated and then caught on and cracked up..."They're for the kids!!!"  Norah has come home with socks from the nurse twice, and I think she's purposely going to school with no socks on so she can get some TLC (and socks!) from Nurse Barbara.  I guess this is more like repayment of a debt than an actual gift, but it's my gift for Day 4 anyway.
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