nada gift

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Thought others might " appreciate " the thought that went into this:

I've been NC since...November? Right around that time I (foolishly in

retrospect) agreed to let nada /stepfada send my kids Xmas gifts. " We've

already bought them, blah blah. "

Anyway, since she had " authorization " for the Xmas gifts, nada took it upon

herself to send the kids a package for Valentine's Day, addressed to the kids

so they saw it was for them (well, DS saw it was; DD can't read yet!).

My son loves to draw and spends hours a day drawing cartoons...and remember

he is ADHD--if none of you folks has an ADHD kid who loves to draw, let me tell

you: he doesn't mean to, but he's enthusiastic and messy: the ink gets

everywhere. (I ought to invest in the companies that make carpet-cleaning spot

solution and those magic-erase sponges, ha.)

But...even if he's careless and leaves an uncapped purple marker on light

carpet...well, I don't like that part of it, but it makes me happy to see him

cultivating a talent for something he loves so much.

HOWEVER....nada's " gift " to my son? A set of 24 PERMANENT-INK markers.

Now...nada is not one of those " laid-back,

let-a-child-loose-with-permanent-ink " kind of gals. (She wouldn't let anyone

under 30 into her home with ONE permanent marker, fully capped.) And she's not

a space cadet, who buys sets of permanent markers for children by mistake.

The woman bought my messy ADHD child a set of permanent ink markers, in the

hope that either (1) I wouldn't notice, and he would ruin a bunch of stuff with

permanent ink; or (2) I would confiscate the markers and be the Mean mama.

I did the latter... He would have " understood " in any case, but the timing

made it even easier... I had just spent half the afternoon tracking down

special " animator's clay " for him (he also does clay animation and other kinds

of stop-frame animation), so he was in an appreciative frame of mind.

I'm sure others have funny stories about wildly inappropriate nada gifts.

Flea

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