If the LW makes a six-figure salary, then a TV plus an iPad are at most the equivalent of about 40 hours of LW's work time, and more likely around 20 hours.
I don't know how many hours it took Jane to compile the album, but depending on how many people Jane had to wrangle, it might easily be 20 hours. (And that's Jane's free time, that LW has admitted she doesn't have much of.)
That album may well represent as many hours of Jane's life as the TV & iPad represent of LW's. And it's an immensely personal gift, and something you genuinely couldn't buy in a store. No wonder the parents are over the moon about it in a way that they weren't about the TV; the album was the better gift.
Re: Anyone reminded of Alex Keaton in _Family Ties_?
If the LW makes a six-figure salary, then a TV plus an iPad are at most the equivalent of about 40 hours of LW's work time, and more likely around 20 hours.
I don't know how many hours it took Jane to compile the album, but depending on how many people Jane had to wrangle, it might easily be 20 hours. (And that's Jane's free time, that LW has admitted she doesn't have much of.)
That album may well represent as many hours of Jane's life as the TV & iPad represent of LW's. And it's an immensely personal gift, and something you genuinely couldn't buy in a store. No wonder the parents are over the moon about it in a way that they weren't about the TV; the album was the better gift.