We finally had our big family gift exchange last night — this is actually a major win for Mom. Sure, she failed in her quest to get it into December this year, but we still had it before the first full week in January.

A little while after my sister had arrived, her children had made enough of a ruckus that I thought to ask if she was looking forward to the calm, relaxing, stress-free environment of graduate school when her semester starts next week — she was, and she’d been thinking that very thing all day.

Anyway, I had a couple of jokes lined up for my “big gift”, but the much bigger story was one of my nephews. The middle one, who is a very strong contender for the coveted International Lost iPod Association Poster Boy position immediately protested me getting an iPhone. Ignoring how unlikely it is that my sister would have a 14-year old carrying a cell phone around, she later said (you know, when the poster boy comment had occurred to me and I tried it on her privately) that he would never have one; I simply added that even if he did get one, he wouldn’t have it for long.

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