Christmas cards and cake

I'm putting off going into the kitchen this morning. I got Grace off to school, Sus is on the couch watching Sesame Street and Parker is still sleeping. I could not find one thing that I wanted for Grace's teacher. Last year, we got her teacher a Jim Shore Santa.

We were moving and I just loved Mrs. Miller, too so we got her something special. Well, the same goes for this years' teacher, Mrs. O'Neal. She is so supportive of Grace and helps her learn on her level. She even brought in some of her daughters old Junie B. Jones books to school because she knew that Grace liked to read them! So, I have been searching for yet another Jim Shore Santa like the one that I fell in one with last year...it says Naughty on one side and when you turn the Santa around it says Nice. Well, because it was last years Santa, no one carries it in their stores....of course, I found one online last night, but that is okay. I'm just going to get her a Sonic giftcard, she loves happy hour, just like we all do around here and I'm going to bake her a sour cream cake. Grace gets out half day so I best get to baking!!

As a former teacher, I used to get some real doozeys as gifts and I also got some gifts that I still have to this day and think fondly of those sweet little ones. Do you have any great (or not so great) gift memories? You know you do!!! Comment on your favorite gift from years past!