mylifewithu: Don't be shallow about presents, my kids or most I know have never gotten me anything. I do not care about that, just remembering me is all the thanks I need. It's not about that girl. Why do you need presents. Well Happy Birthday, I can;t get you anything I am very poor. Does that make me less than what you want as a friend.
No of course not it does not make you less of a friend. This is the first year this has happened to me. I do not care if my kids buy me anything, and I would never feel right if I did not buy them anything.
They did remember which I know they would never forget.