For several days I have been feeling extremely anxious. I had never experienced this type of anxiety before. However, I have been able to pin point exactly where this anxiety stems from.

You see not long ago I became an uncle. I know many of you have children already, well the fact is — I don’t! I have no experience raising children.

This being my first experience as an uncle, I am feeling strange because Christmas is in two weeks… Okay, three weeks, it’s all the same to me.

Anyway, my nephew is three years old and I want to get him a Christmas present he will really appreciate.

So, I have been shopping around and the problem is I feel like a kid! I don’t mean it in a negative way. I mean, every time I go into a toy store, I feel like a kid again.

Have you ever experienced this? I mean I have the urge to play with the different toys that I am supposed to be picking for him! I played with Spiderman and the Green Goblin; I played with the Transformer action figure I saw. I was four years old for twenty minutes. I cannot tell a lie, it was the most fun I’ve had in years!

Hell! I even played with those silly Power Ranger copycats he likes! I got vocal too! Take that! Surrender or be Destroyed! I shouted, slamming one character into the other, as I staged various imaginary battles. It was like G.I. Joe vs Cobra all over again!

By the time I looked up two girls who were shopping with their sons were smiling at me uncontrollably. Needless to say I got extremely embarrassed and tried to play it off.

The worst part is, I can’t make up my mind what I want to get. I am like a kid in a candy store. Literally!

I want to get him everything I see but I don’t want to upstage his mother and father. That could set of the second Civil War! Sibling rivalry becomes war when it comes to kids! I know! I had to learn the hard way.

After all, I am only an uncle! Not to mention the fact that if I had my way I’d spend a whole paycheck on his toys. Incidentally, have you seen the prices on these toys?

These jokers are expensive! I think I am going to just take him to the toy store and let him pick two things out and call it a day until his mother gives me the green light.

To all my fellow uncles out there, I feel your pain Brother! Just remember it’s not so bad if we pretend to be kids again. Just don’t upstage the parents.