Music Box Christmas

To understand the significance of the year my dad got my mom a Music Box for Christmas we have to go back to the prior Christmas.

Everything was going great me and my sister were tearing into our presents to see all the stuff we had gotten for Christmas. That is when it happened. My mom opens up a present from my dad. It just happened to be a pair of jeans that were way too big for my mom. Of course the next thing out of my moms mouth was do you actually think I wear this size of jeans. At this point my dad was totally screwed there is no good answer to this question. At that moment he uttered the words that came close to being his final words here on earth. I held them up and thought they looked like they would fit you. That was just about where the Christmas Joy ended that year.

So the following year he pulled me aside and said here is $50 buy your mother something nice. It is amazing at how much wiser you become in a year. No matter what I bought my mom would be happy because one of the kids picked it out for her. So I went shopping with my mom and my aunt Mae. The entire time I was looking for something to buy my mom. It never dawned on me to buy her a bunch of small things, I had $50 and I was going to buy something that was exactly $50. I finally found it. It was a Santa Clause music box. With tax and everything it would be right at $50. Now my mother and my aunt were wondering where this $50 came from. My mom thought I had taken it out of a cookie jar that we used to keep money in. It wasn't until Christmas morning that when she opened it up that me and my dad told her that he had given me the money to buy her a Christmas present. I don't know but I think that was maybe the start of her music box collection.