The Grands get the perfect gift.

I was short on time when I did my last post, and forgot the best gift of all. My in-laws got the perfect gift. A GIANT remote. Doug and I thought about getting them one last year, but didn't do it, so somebody did it this year. This is a big joke in the family, because they are always having trouble figuring out how to use their tv, sattelite, amplifier, DVD and VCR and wii systems. As if it wasn't complicated enough, let's add another remote to the mix. That's just one more thing that they will be calling us about to try to get things on the right input and station. They just got a new TV for Christmas, and that brought on a whole new set of challenges. They updated to HD, so they had to get an HD reciever from the cable company, and Doug had to reprogram the remotes. One night we got a phone call and Grandma couldn't get the sattelite picture to show up. She had been on the phone with her cable provider for some time, and they couldn't help her at all. She called Doug, and he figured out that they had hit the wrong button on the remote, so it wasn't working. It just needed the tv button to be pushed, and they were off and running. Sorry we outed you, Grandma and Grandpa, but it was funny! Grant was excited to have a new tv, the picture on their old one was going black, so this will be a nice change. We stopped by one evening after my Williams family Christmas party, and their new tv was sitting on the floor. Apparently it had been there for a few days, so Doug offered to help set it up. Grant was very happy for the assistance, and made me laugh when he said, "Hey, look! I'm on TV!"