Care to share a gift-giving flop?

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How about a gift-giving funny? Once upon a time, when the kids were little, we used to wrap presents in newspaper rather than wasting $ on actual wrapping paper. We often used the colorful funny section of the Sunday paper, but we were also creative in other ways. One year, for Mother’s Day, my son, who was about 4, shyly and proudly handed me a gift he had wrapped all by himself in newspaper. Front and center was an ad, obviously the star attraction of this wrapping paper. It gave me pause for a moment…..then I realized he had chosen it because it had a picture of a very pretty lady on it, with very pretty eyes. Pretty like his Momma! Only, his Momma ran a day care. She wasn’t an exotic dancer at Jezebels. I laughed till I cried! ♥ I still have that “gift wrap” in my buffet.

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