I love these stories! And Wolf, any mom who is a Monty Python fan is AOK in my book!

I think any gift that reaches into the understanding of the heart of another will always trump the material thing. One Christmas, I gave my parents a collection of stories I had written over the years while traveling - I didn't know if they would think it was corny...but you would have thought I had given them a pot of platinum!

They talked about it for years after that, shared it with their church friends.

For all the other passing fads, the gift of self will be most cherished!


(OH,and when I mentioned about my attitude when I was in my teens, I should also say (now that I am pushing 50) that any woman who could give birth to 6 children in 10 years and raise them all to be self sufficient, happy human beings has earned her stripes---I'm guessing we gave her numerous occasions to be "tense" in our young fledgling years!) Kudo's Mom on a job well done!