Oh Barbara - *thank* you for the best laugh I've had in a couple of days. I'm truly sorry that you're in a place where you're pondering the no returns/no exchange policy - but you have definitely got a great sense of humor (vital to our survival, in my humble opinion) and I know you'll weather the latest.
OMG no! No need to delete anything on my account. You didn't offend me at all, I initially thought that maybe you didn't understand initially. I later went back and saw your haha. I'm sorry!
I think we did try a trade not too long ago in the watercooler! We were all for it - the kids and husband's and SO's had different ideas so that didn't work as planned.
I have to say though that some of the "gift" is the friendships formed on this board. I would never have known my friends on this board if my difficult child didn't go through what he did last year.
I often think about the people I would not have met if I did not have my kids. An indirect special gift!
Many many days it really is impossible to find the meaning of the direct gift!