its all about ME...DUH!!

Drawing names for a Christmas gift exchange is always an interesting thing and as is the trend in the Bennett house it is slightly more um, well, crazy. Here's the deal, Coby and I decided that this year we would have the kids draw names to see witch sibling they would get to buy a gift for so they get involved in the spirit of giving and yet Coby and I don't go insane trying to get four children to buy sixteen gifts without them seeing what the other ones bought on the ONLY trip we are making to the "city" before Christmas. So, that being said I will give you a little insight into our crazy little life...

We sat the kids down this afternoon to tell them the plan "we have all your names in this bowl and you will be picking a name out of the bowl to see who you get to buy a gift for this year. So when..." Brittany's hand shoots up mid sentence, she is obviously on the ball and already has a deep question for us. "Yes Brittany?" "Um, what if we pick our own name?" "well then we would just have you pick again. (thinking we have answered her question I move on) So when..." her hand shoots up again "yes Brittany?" "So, um what if we pick our name again?" this time my helper husband speaks up and says "then you are fired from the gift exchange." sad look on Brittany's face.
Now it is time to start the picking of names:
This time it is Justin who speaks up "I pick 7" "no Justin we are not picking a number between 1 & 10 we are going to start with Rebekah and go around the room picking." "oh" so I look at Rebekah and say "OK pick a name and that's who you get to buy a Christmas gift for." She picks a name and it is Justin's. YEAH first one down only three to go man why is this WAY harder then it should be. So I tell Rebekah she got Justin's name so I ask her to make sure she understands "So you get to buy a gift for who?" she promptly replies "me" I sigh and say "no for Justin, someone else will buy a gift for you." "HUMPH" We move around the room and all the other children are tickled with who they are buying for. Then we ask the kids again who they are buying a gift for and they all tell us and then Rebekah pipes in and says "Justin and Brittany and Mommy and Daddy and Michael are buying for me. oh and me" Coby and I look at each other and are thinking will she ever get it? Then we hear Justin calmly say to her "Bekah, I am getting you a gift and you are getting me a gift, got it?" "Oh Justin!! I am getting you a gift and one for Mommy!!" EUREKA!!