as long as they get their socks

Today I asked Danelle how she would feel if one year at Christmas we switched things up a bit and did not give gifts, but instead took a trip or gave Christmas to a family that needed it more than us. She paused for a minute and said "I don't know. It would be pretty hard to not give gifts to anyone. Could I still do that? Give gifts?". I said that maybe we could still do that. Then she asked if she could still receive just one gift. I asked what that would be expecting something big and she said "socks....I really like getting socks and I always need new socks when Christmas comes around again". What is so interesting and funny to me is that I had an almost identical conversation with Madison about 20 minutes later. I was alone with each of them in the car at the time so there is no way that she could have heard me talking to her sister but she too requested just one gift. Only she wants fuzzy socks. Today was a good day. Lots of little happy moments. This is one that I want to remember.