Deondre's gift from his mom

Yesterday during morning meeting (the first part of the day), Deondre raised his hand and said that he had something in his backpack for me. The kids know that anything they bring to school for me (notes from home, permission slips, etc.) come out of the backpack before they even put the backpack away. And Deondre has a habit of going to get something out of his backpack and then playing back there and distracting the rest of the students. So I gave him a hard time about this. He kept affirming that it was very important and that it was from his mom and I needed to have it. Finally I let him go get it out of his backpack. He came back with a well-used pink toothbrush. It still had dried toothpaste on the handle. He held it out to me and looked up and very seriously said, "My mom says you can have it." This was apparently a very important gift. I didn't want to reject it, but I didn't want to touch it, either. I finally thanked him for it and told him that he could keep it at home for me. He went and put it back in his backpack and hopefully took it home. I tried to keep a straight face, but couldn't quite do it. It was so unexpected and incongruous. I wonder what really happened at home that morning when he was taking his mother's toothbrush to school. Would she have let him take it if she knew Deondre was going to present it to me in front of the class? It's probably one of those things that I'll never bring up when we discuss Deondre.