Without even trying kids can teach us some of the greatest life lessons and when you are a kid you learn some of the greatest lessons in life.

I want to share with you a lesson that I learned as a child. It all revolves around this gift [open gift – take out gumballs and a Milky Way]. Now here is the story behind this gum and this candy bar.

When I was a child, I had saved enough money to do something I had never done before at Christmas which was to buy my parents a Christmas gift. I had saved up a dollar for each parent and my mom took me to a department store and I asked her to go to one side of the store while I went to the other side of the store to shop. There was only one problem with the presents I was about to purchase. I wasn’t really thinking about what they would like to have…