Our youngest child graduated from high school this spring, and our gift to him was a grad party. Grad parties are a big deal where we live – white tents, catered food, a fancy cake, and a display of photos of the graduate growing up. And, of course, that pretty box for guests to place their cards! Last weekend, as we wrote yet another check to place in a pretty box, we got to talking about giving gifts. This summer gifts have almost exclusively been of money. We took a step back and considered what gifts we have we been giving each other this summer. And, what makes a good gift? Money? Time? Our favorite gifts to give each other are gifts of our self with the other in mind. We learned this a while back when some friends recommended that we give a gift of ourselves to each other for two weeks. They encouraged us to choose a simple, everyday gift, something we did not readily do. Examples of their past gifts to each other were putting the toilet seat down