one gift wonder

B doesn't ask for a lot. He hates birthday parties and is always worried about Bruce and I becoming poor so he doesn't often ask for gifts. If he says he'd really love to have something, he always tacks on, "But Mom, I don't want you and Dad to get it for me if it will make you poor."

But he only needed one gift this year to make all his dreams come true.





My kids are spoiled. But I also like to think this provides me leverage for future parent-mandated consequences. "Oh, you don't want to practice the piano? Fine with me. I'll just take that iPod touch off your hands for the next week. I've been wanting to play Angry Birds."