I've Been Tagged, Here's My Crappy Gift!

MnMom has tagged me - I must choose a crappy gift. Here's mine . . . thank heavens I never recieved one!
If I opened this little gem on Christmas morning, I'd know my husband really didn't know me at all after nearly 24 years of marriage! Don't get me wrong, I know other women just love them, but the last thing I personally want to wear locked around my neck are stick figures of colored glass children! The only thing that might be worse is this . . .

. . . the dreaded Mother's Birthstone Heart necklace. Yes, I would know that my hubby had totally depended on my daughter's advice on what to buy mommy for xmas.

I remember one year, our mom got a set of very fragile glass fish sculptures for her birthday, dad had taken us girls shopping with him. It was a mommy fish to which was literally "chained" three little baby fish. She was supposed to set it on the edge of the bath tub, her only retreat from all of us in our small house. I can just see her now, taking that long bath, behind that locked bathroom door, one of us on the other side of the door saying, "Mooooooooom, mooooooom, when will you be out?" "Moooooooom, moooooooom, can I get a new toy telephone system for my room?" "Moooooooooom, moooooooom, when are you going to be out?" At which point, she "accidentally" knocked that little chained-mother fish sculpture right off the tub edge to a very brutal hard landing on the cold linoleum. To this day, (I live in the old family home), there are little fingernail marks in the pine wood trim around the bathroom upstairs where us girls used to dig our fingernails into the soft wood in rows while waiting for mom to come out of the bathroom after a long bath. I wish I could find a photo of that little fish family for you, it was hysterical and the same 70's green of the tub and toilet! Mom was a trooper though, they lasted about two weeks or so before they "broke", that's longer than I could've made it.