How To Get A Trampoline

Santa Claus gets a very long wish list from the Christensen house every Christmas. I am the oldest of six children, with one brother and four sisters. Normally each child would get a few small items from Santa Claus such as a barbie doll or jewelry for the girls, and a t shirt or video game for the boys. However, on one particular Christmas, I talked my siblings into “pooling” their wishes into a single “big ticket” item. We all wanted Santa to bring us a trampoline.

I wouldn’t say that we are poor, but with six kids, and a stay at home mom, trampolines are usually out of the question. I coached my youngest sister, Brianna, to only ask for a trampoline. At age 3, I do not think she even knew what a trampoline was. The rest of my siblings

My siblings and I were consigned to the fact that this year, we would not get a trampoline.

On Christmas morning, my siblings and I woke up early and we eagerly waited in our rooms for our parents to come tell us that Santa Claus had come! We lined up in age order to come down the stairs into the family room. We were all ecstatic when we saw that not only did we get a trampoline, but there was one set up in the family room! The fourteen foot wide round trampoline sat four feet off the ground and took up the majority of the space in the family room. The couches and the chairs had been moved into the kitchen in order to get it to fit. Luckily, our family room has a 20 foot tall ceiling.

For the entire two weeks that we had off of school, we spent most of our time bouncing up and down on the trampoline in the house while it was below freezing outside. When our cousins came over, they were jealous to see that we had a new trampoline, and especially jealous that it was set up inside of our