Unexpected Christmas Gifts

Four weeks before Christmas, I was so excited that you could find me almost bouncing off of the walls. "Hey guys...guys...guys." "WHAT!!!" they screamed back. "It's almost Christmas," I said in a cheerful voice. "What are you getting," one of the boys asked. Another replied by saying that his parents would just go and get him what he asked for Christmas day, and all the other kids agreed that their parents already told them what they were getting or that they were going out to get the presents on Christmas day. But unlike all of the other kids my parents didn't tell me what I was getting they didn't even hint on what the gift was.

"Oh if only I knew," I thought on the bus ride home from school. I knew one thing. My parents still thought that I believed in Santa, so when they bought the gifts they would hide them, but fortunately for me, in the same place every year. Under the floorboards in the attic.

For the next weed following I checked under every floorboard's every day, but all I found were dust bunnies and dead bugs. After a particularly tiring day of searching under the floorboards I stumbled across one small package wrapped in brown paper and covered in dust. On the tag it read "happy anniversary".

Oh how I was curious what was inside, but I also knew that it wasn't for me. So instead I decided to bring it up during dinner that night. Thump! I threw the package into the middle of the table. "What is this?" I questioned. My mom replied with a little jump because of the loud noise the package had made, and my dad sat there in his chair and just smiled. He said "Honey...do you remember eight years ago when I forgot our anniversary and you didn't speak to me for days?" "Yes I'm not sure how I could forget." She spoke with a hint of vexation in her voice. "Well I never forgot, I just couldn't find the gift so I tried to look for it every where but I never did find it." So he handed it to my mom and she opened it. Inside was an old VCR tape with the words "1992-2006" written on the side.

We all gathered around the T.V. as my dad dusted off the old VCR and hooked it up. The tape started with my dad looking into the camera lense saying, "is this on...hey if there's a red light does that mean that it's recording?" Then it cuts to my parents wedding, my mom walking down the aisle, my parents saying their vows. I found this to be very boring but when I looked back I saw my mom was crying...a good kind of crying, and my dad was holding her in his arms.

Then it goes from wedding to honey moon, honeymoon to first Thanksgiving and Christmas as a married couple. Then there is a huge time jump from the whole family