MAGICAL CHILDHOOD

A person on X asked the question, “What’s something your parents did that brought magic to your childhood?” Some of the responses:
– “Mom would set up our tent downstairs or create a ‘beach picnic’ in our living room during cold Minnesota winters when we couldn’t go on vacations.”
– “On the night of our birthdays, before we went to bed, my mom would come lay in bed with each of us kids and tell us all about the events of the day we were born, a lot of details, sentimental things and hilarious things. I’m almost 46, and I still ask her every birthday to tell me about the morning I was born.”
– “My dad used to tell me he could stop the rain but only at certain points. We had two overpasses over the road to our neighborhood. When we went under the rain would ‘stop’ when he said it would.”
– “My mother would sprinkle baby powder on the bedside table so we could see the tooth fairy’s footsteps. Once I fell asleep, she would walk through the powder with her fingertips so it would look like tiny footsteps.”
– ““My dad said ‘yes’ to as many things as possible. He said you are only a kid once so let’s make the most of it. Yes to movies on weeknights, basketball in the park, yes to ice cream, friends coming over, concerts, etc.”
– “Mom would wake me up in the middle of the night to play in the snow or to watch a meteor shower. She painted scenes on my walls and stars on my ceilings. She wrote me letters from fairies detailing their adventures in fairyland and asking me questions all about myself.”
– “My mother let us play outside in the rain in our bathing suits and swim in the puddles as long as there was no lightning or thunder.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What magical thing did your parents do for you as a kid?