Love, joy and the warm feeling of getting together don't cost a thing. But gifts do cost money. So what's a poor family to do?
Before New Year, I told my mother that the only thing I 1 was a pogo stick (弹簧单高跷). However, my mother said they were so expensive that we couldn't 2 one.
On a Saturday before New Year, my family3 together. While my mother and I were picking out the gifts, my dad said, "I'll be back soon— I need to see something in the tool area." A little later, he came back with a long box. I remember wondering if there was a 4 in it.
When we arrived home, my dad put the box in the garage. While my parents were busy with their chores, I 5 walked out to the garage and found the box. I was so 6 and I knew as soon as I opened that magical box, my bright, shiny pogo stick would appear. No such 7! Inside the box was a 8 old broom（扫帚）.
That New Year morning, I got some nice gifts 9 I didn't get the present that I really wanted.
After cleaning up the room, my dad went to the garage. When he came back in, he was 10 a beautiful pogo stick. I couldn't 11 it! My parents probably got quite a laugh from the trick they played on 12.
Although we didn't have much 13, my parents gave me the most important gift of all: lots of 14. That was over 60 years ago and I still think about those15 memories. I will never forget all the joy my parents brought into my life.
