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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 567044" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>You are TOTALLY the best!!</p><p></p><p>There is a special kind of joy when you give a child a gift you have searched for high and low, and all over the country. It truly is a wonderful thing for both of you. It is also super special to pass on something that you treasured and kept and saved for years to your own child or grandchild. I was the kind of kid who treasured books, my entire family is that way. One of my mom's friends often gave me my favorite Christmas gifts. She gave books. One year it was a treasury of children's stories. The next was a fairy tale treasury with beautiful illustrations. Then disney stories. By then I was maybe eleven and she gave bro and I the set of Narnia books and I also got a set of Judy Blume books. Years later i was visiting her and learned she was always hesitant about those because she was not a big reader. Wiz was a year old then, and she was shocked to learn I still had the story treasury books and that bro and I read the anrnia books until they fell apart, quite literally fell apart. Even bro, who loved the story treasury we first got from her, was amazed the year I gave that to his daughter. </p><p></p><p>The gifts Aubrey gets this year will be things she remembers, treasures, enjoys, and will wish that she had once she has her own children. That, in my opinion, is a very very special thing.</p><p></p><p>It is awesome that Aubrey 'gets' the love and care put into gifts like that. Truly wonderful. I hope someday Kayla can escape her parents and brothers and have nice things for herself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 567044, member: 1233"] You are TOTALLY the best!! There is a special kind of joy when you give a child a gift you have searched for high and low, and all over the country. It truly is a wonderful thing for both of you. It is also super special to pass on something that you treasured and kept and saved for years to your own child or grandchild. I was the kind of kid who treasured books, my entire family is that way. One of my mom's friends often gave me my favorite Christmas gifts. She gave books. One year it was a treasury of children's stories. The next was a fairy tale treasury with beautiful illustrations. Then disney stories. By then I was maybe eleven and she gave bro and I the set of Narnia books and I also got a set of Judy Blume books. Years later i was visiting her and learned she was always hesitant about those because she was not a big reader. Wiz was a year old then, and she was shocked to learn I still had the story treasury books and that bro and I read the anrnia books until they fell apart, quite literally fell apart. Even bro, who loved the story treasury we first got from her, was amazed the year I gave that to his daughter. The gifts Aubrey gets this year will be things she remembers, treasures, enjoys, and will wish that she had once she has her own children. That, in my opinion, is a very very special thing. It is awesome that Aubrey 'gets' the love and care put into gifts like that. Truly wonderful. I hope someday Kayla can escape her parents and brothers and have nice things for herself. [/QUOTE]
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