One of my favorite traditions at Christmas time is,

 taking all the kids for Family Night, to All A Dollar to by Christmas gifts.

When the kids were little and didn’t have money,

we would give them each $5 to by some gifts with.

The rules were this: what you bought for others had to be useful or super funny.

The fun part was to find something useful or funny for each person in the family and keep it a secret until Christmas morning.

As we would go through the store the boys would go with dad,

and the girls would go with mom.

After checkout we would go home and the kids would wrap the gifts that they bought.

One year on the way to All A Dollar, Alex said,

“When I grow up I’m going to open up a store called, ‘Everything for a Penny’.

I smiled and said, “How are you going to make money?”

He said, “I will just buy everything and sell it for a penny.”

I have so many fun memories of going to All A Dollar at Christmas time.