Oh, you're sooo welcome! This is the story of a baby gift I gave and of the way it was acknowledged.

→[More:]Some years back my brother "Simon" became involved with a woman, "Crystal" who was a month pregnant when he met her. My parents and I only heard about this woman and her pregnancy about seven months after she and Simon had gotten together through another of my brothers. We met Crystal when she came with Simon to my brother Charlie's wedding. Well, shortly after the baby girl, "Sadie" was born I dropped a present (a little yellow sweater and pants outfit I had knitted myself) off at the restaurant that my brother managed, because we didn't know where they lived. My brother wasn't at work at the time. I heard nothing from Simon or Crystal in terms of acknowledgement of the gift. Oh well, a new baby is such a lot of work. And Simon is just kind of that way - very self-absorbed, and doesn't bother to RSVP or acknowledge gifts, which is why I gave up giving him things years ago.

But then the next time I saw Crystal at some family do she said to me, "I put that outfit you made away because it was too big at first and Sadie grew right past it."

I was speechless. Why did she tell me that? Why not just say, "What a cute outfit you made" or something like that? And what do you say to that, "Uh, you're welcome"?