Christmas gifts

When my children were small they like to buy Christmas gifts for their brothers and sisters. Ray and I would take them to the dime store on Shawnee Mission Road and giving them each a dollar would take them in the store one at a time, Since we were with them they did not duplicate their gifts. When they got home with their five gifts I gave them wrapping paper and they wrapped them. I don't think they ever told but it was hard for some of them who wanted to tell. On Christmas morning they had such fun opening them. Their gifts we bought from either Sears or Wards which had catalogs. We told their grandparents what they wanted so we would duplicate the grandparents told us what they had for them. We had trouble two Christmas with our order. The one at Sears left off our first letter of our name and made it Organ, One of the clerks figured it out, The other order was at Wards and did not come in. Ray was covering a story with the President of Wards and told him our problem. That night a truck pulled up. They rang the bell and delivered our order. The new Christmas dresses we had ordered for the girls had been packed down too long and we could never get the wrinkles out of their lovely Christmas dresses but everything else was fine and we still had one day before Christmas. Nerve wracking but successful.