An Early Christmas

Dominic's school has an interesting program where you can send your student to school with a list of recipients and a bit of money. They can then 'shop' for gifts with some assitance from the grown-ups running the program. This way, your young student can 'shop' for gifts for their family.

So we decided to send Dominic to school with a short list of people and a small sum of money. That day he came home with four gifts. He bought gifts for DominicsMom, myself, Jocelyn and Grandma Pat. Grandpa Frank and Grandma Pat visited this afternoon, so Pat received her gift, which was a very nice keychain. I had high hopes for the remaining gifts...

At that point, Dominic went into overdrive as he wanted to give us the rest of the gifts. We resisted at first as Christmas is still several days away. He slowly wore us down as the day went on and we finally relented. Dominic collected the three gifts and presented each of us with our gift. We let Jocelyn open hers first - she was still very groggy from her nap and Dominic helped her open her gift. Imagine her surprise when she pulled out a dinosaur egg! This is the type where you take the egg, place it in the water, and then wait. Over the course of a day or two, the dinosaur will 'hatch' and spring forth from the egg (the dinosaur will slowly grow as it absorbes the water, thus 'hatching' from the egg.)

Well, one out of two wasn't too bad. DominicsMom went next. She received a nice little bracelet that said "I love mom". Very nice!

I went last, opened my gift bag, and pulled out a nice little yo-yo. It was a nice little yo-yo, lighting up at the bottom of each swing. I did better with it than I normally do, although Dominic ended up playing with it more than I did.

Well, it's the thought that counts!

DominicsDad