Gorilla Gift

Tuesday started off poorly for me.  I had messed up my work calendar, and ended up not being somewhere I was supposed to be, and that just set my day off kilter.  I hurried to the meeting.....so very late, and felt terrible.  It all worked out in the end, but just left me unsettled.  

Sugar's dance teacher wasn't feeling well, so her Tap class was cancelled.  I picked her up, and we had an errand to run across the street.  In the store, I notice an older man whom I see at a monthly meeting I attend through my work.  He doesn't know me....but I know him.  Anyhow, we were behind him in line to check out, and he had received this stuff gorilla as a "free gift with purchase of 4 Valentine cards".  He turned to Sugar and asked her if she wanted it.  She didn't know what to say.  He finally looked at me and asked if it was alright, and I said she could have it.  She took it graciously, and was really quite pleased.  She just hadn't known what to say in that situation, and I had to agree with her that it was awkward.  If she had said, "yes!"  she felt selfish or greedy.  If she said, "no", she seemed rude or possibly ungrateful.  She knows she isn't supposed to accept gifts from strangers in general, but I knew this man....so many things for her to think about.  In the end....both were happy.  I'm sure he felt pleased to make a little girl's day, and she LOVES stuffed animals, and had actually pointed this gorilla out to me earlier.  He is happy in her room......and she named him Fred.  

We got home to find that The Hubby had had an accident while cutting a board on a table saw.  It kicked back at him, and the board hit his face.  His teeth went through his lip, and he busted off the tips of 5 teeth!  OUCH!  He looked terrible.  No doctor for him, though.....sigh.