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12-08-2008, 08:03 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: A little town south of Chicago
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| Favorite Christmas Memories I'd love to hear everyone's favorite Christmas memories. One of my favorites was the year my father put an awkwardly wrapped gift under the tree and told me to be very very careful not to break it. I picked it up and I could tell it was something with poster board wrapped around it, but he gruffly told me that some things break very easily when handled too much. Every time I picked it up after that he cautioned me not to break it. "If you break it I won't buy another one!" he would say. That would always make me put it right back down again. I was scared to death I had broken it one time because I heard it rattle. I was so curious about that gift that year it drove me crazy. The only thing I could imagine it could be was a beautiful china doll. I couldn't wait to see it. One of the rules in our house was that we did not tell lies to keep someone from guessing what a gift was so if my Dad said I could break it I imagined that it had to be extremely fragile. Well, you can imagine my shock when I opened it first thing on Christmas morning and discovered it was a skate board! My Dad knew I would guess it in a minute if I felt around and messed with it too much. And he never lied about it! Not once did he say it was fragile or that it would break. He only said that it could break. He got me! |
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12-08-2008, 08:05 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: A little town south of Chicago
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| Then there was the year I drove my two boys stark raving mad! I wrapped all the gifts and put them under the tree. But instead of putting their names on them I just put an X or an O. So they not only had to try to guess WHAT was in the gift but WHO it was for. Fun! |
12-08-2008, 09:55 AM | #3 |
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| Come on ya'll I know you have stories to tell! |
12-08-2008, 11:58 AM | #4 |
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| When I was little my mothers mother would go all out on Christmas Eve. About 20 years ago I would have been maybe 5 or 6 years old and the oldest grandchild, and my little sister and cousin who would have both been about 3 or 4. To this day I am not sure who it was but someone would call the house and pretend to be santa(this was before cell phones) and say that he was at the gas station lost and couldn't find the house and asked if we could come meet him. So my aunts would put us in the car and take us down the road to look for him. Well he was never there and we would be so upset and they would take us home. When we got back to grandmas she would throw flour on the porch if there was no snow and make boot prints as if santa had been there and when we went in all the presents would be under the tree. I can't believe I am old enough to remember stuff that happened 20 years ago I feel so old now.
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12-08-2008, 01:12 PM | #5 |
Our Blessings R Many Donating Member | The one Christmas that really stands out as one of my most memorable is the year we took our children (age's 4 and 8) to visit the Mission for the homeless on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Before the Christmas meal was served that day, the service in the chapel was filled to capacity, some going forward asking God into their lives, giving thanks for the gift of HIS Son Jesus. This was one Christmas our girls say they too, always remember. All the Christmas's with my Mother and our family is all so very special, I really can't just pick out one from any of them. This is not going to be an easy time for so many people that have lost a loved one this year and in recent years, so we need to especially keep them in our prayers. Jack and I wish each and everyone a Blessed Christmas. Hugs, Patti and Jack |
12-08-2008, 06:13 PM | #6 |
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| One of my favorite childhood memories at christmas is sitting in front of my grandmas huge fireplace on christmas eve. She always had it decorated so pretty with long strings of artificial holly and stockings. I would just sit there on the bottom stone ledge of the fireplace and watch christmas movies on tv and talk about santa with my grandma. She sold that house when I was just 12 after my grandfather passed away. Just this summer, me and my husband bought our first house. Aside from being the perfect house for us, the large stone fireplace reminded me of my grandmas. I looked at many stores for those long strings of holly, but never found anything close. I'm sure my grandma bought those in the 60s long before I was born. My aunt passed away a few months ago from cancer, and I had to help my family pack up her belongings from her house. In a corner in the back of her walk in closet, I found a box. Guess what was in it? Those same strings of holly that belonged to my grandma. I really think it was a blessing that I found them, and they now adorn my fireplace and will for many years to come.
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12-08-2008, 06:47 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member | I love Christmas. My favorite Christmas memories are all of the family parties at my cousin Tricia's house up in Buckingham, PA. There is this gigantor hill on her property line (she lives on a farm. an empty farm lol), and my brother and I always love to climb it! It's pretty steep and we call it "the moutain." haha it's so fun! I remember one year I 'got stuck' and my brother had to threaten to throw me down the "moutain" to get me to move haha. We'd always go over my Grandma's house on Christmas Eve and stay there until 11 or so at night. Then on the ride home, my brother and I would watch Santa (which was usually a random red dot in the sky somewhere) and try to beat him home! We always did, of course. Last year on Christmas, I went with a family from church to a local nursing home to go carolling. It ranged from people who were up and moving around to some who were bed/wheelchair-ridden. That was quite a moving experience and I feel very blessed to have had the opportunity to help some of them enjoy their Christmas even more, especially for those who didn't have any family or anything left. There are so many Christmas memories I have, and I could just rattle them off. I love Christmastime and I enjoy every day this time of year.
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12-10-2008, 11:01 AM | #8 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: A little town south of Chicago
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| Those memories are so beautiful. Come on members MORE! I am so far away from family I need some Christmas spirit here! |
12-10-2008, 12:36 PM | #9 |
YT Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Schweinfurt, Bayern, Germany
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| I love these stories! Lets see. My favorites are this song my entire family used to sing I don't know what it was called, but it was about six different instruments which all sing their own line. Mine since i was the youngest was always the same. one note only. "the horn the horn that sounds so forlorn" my dad was always the drum and my mom the violin. Every christmas. just googled it. its called the instrument song, or the orchestra song. My mom also made us a construction paper tree which she taped to the wall one Christmas since we were too poor to afford one. We didn't get any presents that year, but spent the day out in the woods cutting off pine branches and holly then came home and made wreaths for the cemetery that my mom cared for. so that no one was forgotten on Christmas. Merry Christmas to all!
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12-10-2008, 02:25 PM | #10 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: A little town south of Chicago
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| Oh Duckie that sounds so sweet! Music has always been an important part of Christmas to me. We always attended very small churches and I always had a leading role in the Christmas play. Not because I was so good - just because the pickins were slim. LOL. I had a friend who was like a sister to me attending the same church and we would always practice our lines together. We pushed each other and learned each other's lines. One year we ended a play by singing Silent Night (we harmonized beautifully) but got the giggles right in the middle of it. You know how that goes. Our pastor started laughing too and pretty soon everyone in the church was laughing. He came on stage, put an arm around each of us and started singing Joy to the World at the top of his lungs. Everyone started singing with him. It was wonderful! |
12-10-2008, 02:50 PM | #11 | |
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