The last minute wrapping flurry is happening. The family Christmas will begin in two hours.
Tonight there will be pizza and cookies, tomorrow Chinese take-out. And it will all be just right Who doesn't love pizza and Chinese?
When I was a child we would gather at my grandmother's. We would wait impatiently for my dad to finish milking so we could head out. And then after dinner we would wait impatiently again for the dishes to be washed and dried so we could open presents.
There was a gift exchange with a $2 limit. Totally exciting, both to get a gift and to see who drew your name.
One year my sister, ten years younger than me, got a Fisher Price corn popper push toy and we were all amazed at such a wonderful gift. I just checked on Amazon - that corn popper is still available, for $24.
My grandmother would give us each red envelopes from the bank. $1 for the grandkids and $2 for the adults. One day this fall I was going through drawers and found several of those envelopes, still with the crisp bills inside.
I thought it would be fun to give them to my family for Christmas this year, but, today, I can't find them.
2 comments:
Such a fun trip down memory lane and so much like my childhood Christmases. 😊. Thank you for sharing this. 🤗 I do have very supportive friends and family and I'm so grateful for this. You're so right about imagining all of the worst things that can happen in this situation. I absolutely consider you a sweet friend. It is indeed a small world in today's time but don't know your Light friends. I do though have a cardiac nurse practitioner named Amy Light. 😊. Will have to ash er if she knows or is related to your friends. 🤗
Merry Christmas and that photo of you- a perfect gift..to see you looking better and smiling.....I have to go plug in my table top tree.... we don't have any dessert but...plenty of food, oranges etc. And I have a bunch of cloth scraps I am sewing into squares and rectangles......a very scrappy Project and perfect for when I sit on the couch and watch football. I tried Hallmark Movies but GAG they are awful this year.
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