30. I asked for a drum kit one year because I wanted to learn how to play.
We opened all the gifts and I was sort of disappointed because a drum kit was not one of them-which should have been obvious just from looking at what was under the tree, but I was a dumb kid.
After all the gifts were open my parents asked me to help set up for dinner, and that they needed something from their bedroom.
I go in there, and the drum kit was set up in the middle of the room. I’m pretty sure I cried.
I never did learn how to play, but that’s just one example of how my parents always tried to give us kids what we wanted. I’m 27 now and that’s still one of my favorite Christmas memories.
