"Why I love my wife" or "What a great Christmas"

[denmmurray]

Last year my wife and I lived in a kind of "rough" neighborhood with a few hoodlums who liked to prowl around. It definitely wasn't a place to raise a kid but it was the first house we were in after getting married so we were ok with it for the time being. I got a call from my wife one day and she told me our house had been broken into and they'd tried to steal my playstation 2 among other things but had managed to steal an expensive sound board and 2 big speakers.
I got home and scanned everything to see what was taken...and was incredibly distraught when I found they'd stolen my DS which I totally loved. For the following year every time I saw a commercial for a DS game I got depressed because I knew I couldn't play it.

Fast forward to christmas day. My wife hands me a smaller sized present and I open it to find...a brand new DS with Brain Age 2. My wife felt so bad that it had gotten stolen that she bought me something that she knew nothing about. She wasn't sure if she'd gotten the right thing or if I still even wanted one.

*sigh*...I love Christmas.

[diane]

Now clean the house and rub her feet in appreciation of the totally wonderful wife that you have. ;)

[denmmurray]

well...she is pregnant so I'm rubbing her back but she has a weird thing about her feet.

This brings up a question:

What is the most meaningful gift you've received?

[joedubbs]

Christmas 1994.

I received my first computer. It was a Packard Bell. I was 9. I remember that year every morning when my mom would drive me to school I would explain to her why I wanted a computer and why I neeeeeeeeeded a computer. They knew nothing about them and as the youngest of three kids my mom said it was simply too expensive. I had come to realize that it was a lot to ask for and kind of put it out of my head.

Christmas morning we unwrapped everything and I had still had a great Christmas, I was already wearing my Brett Favre jersey that I got. My dad told me there was one more box in his room and it was my computer.

Thinking of it now it still touches me. My parents and brothers are not computer people but they went out and spent a lot of money at the time I'm sure on a computer for their kid because he was crazy about it and wouldn't stop talking about it. I still have that computer in my attic. I should probably do something with it to ensure that I never throw it out.

[satori]

my wife who hates gaming bought me a PSP which was exactly what I'd been dreaming of for months. Considering how much she hates gaming I was completely shocked by this act of contrition. She never ceases to amaze me.