When Nathan was about 11 or 12 we had this one upmanship thing going on. He would pop in the window when I was doing dishes to scare me. Or I would play a trick on him etc.
So one Christmas I worked in a Christian book store and the kids would come and hang out til it was time to go home. This winter Nathan and his friend Jamie went to the tv store just up the street from where I worked and got a big box that the old type of floor model tvs came in. Probably 3 ft by 3ft square. They then went to the second hand book store and made a deal with the owners and filled the box with Harlequin books which I read all the time. Then they wrapped it up and using their skateboards with Jamie riding on top to keep everything in place they pushed that huge box down the street and around the corner and brought it into the store where I was and put it in the corner til we went home.
In the mean time I asked Nathan to help gift wrap packages for people. Which he did. What I didn't tell him was some of the packages and boxes he gift wrapped was his own Christmas gifts from his dad and me!!
So on Christmas eve we opened gifts. I only knew there were probably books in the box. When I opened it there were over 300 books in that box!!!! And I told Nathan he had gift wrapped his own Christmas gifts!!
It was a fun time to play jokes on each other. I had had to help put that huge box in our van to get it home but was forbidden to look inside!