Best Gift I've Ever Received
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Instead of getting every parent and sibling a gift on Christmas, we draw names for a secret Santa. We spent Christmas at my in-laws, and on Christmas morning my youngest, Aspen handed me a gift, with a gift tag in her tangled 8yo scrawl, that read
To: dad
From: SS
She gave me the sweetest half smile, her blue green eyes watching intently as I opened her gift. Inside was a pair of red plaid slippers with “BEST” on one foot and “PAPA” on the other.