Silly daddy

Every year the kids await the arrival of Grammie & Grandpa's Fabulous FedEx Box from Minnesota. When it arrives, we drag out the opening as long as we can, purely torturing them. Then, we slooowly take out each gift -- and forbid them to touch anything. And juuust before they burst from the tension, we let them play in the empty carton for a while:

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This year it was a nail-biter. Even though the box was sent overnight, FedEx didn't deliver it until three days later. It got as close as Warwick, RI, on Day Two before returning to Memphis for another attempted landing (this time through Boston). I called Federal Express twice a day to badger the dispatchers, and they finally admitted on the morning of December 24th that none of the drivers could go home until all the packages were delivered.

All's well that ends well, however, and the kids got to enjoy their annual styrofoam peanut fight before Christmas arrived.