CEK40 wrote:

april6263 wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

Luv how is your weather....it is still warm here until Saturday and Sunday then back to 75 for Christmas Day...Feels like Florida 

LOL....it is a warm winter this year it seems

The weather channel said that the whole east coast was WARM and not to expect a White Christmas in the east....

ok so when was the last time you guys had a green Christmas????

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april6263 wrote:

View, unobstructed wrote:

I can't stay on long....

But I was going to ask you all - what is the earliest Christmas memory you have?   I remember shopping with my mom when maybe 4 yrs old.  And pointing to a life sized newborn baby doll.   And wanting it.  But no, couldn't buy it that day.

And then it was one of my Christmas presents!   So loved that dolly.

I remember when I was about 4 waking up Christmas morning to my brother who had been away in the military sitting under our tree ....my mom didn't even know he was coming home

Oh, my gosh!  how wonderful April.

Luv reminded me that when my children were very young - 2 and 5 maybe...we had moved to Minneapolis and it was our first Christmas away from our home state and families close by.  And money was tight.  We had a nice big tree and lights, yes, but we made most of the ornaments and for the angel...

I wrapped a white chiffon scarf around little girl's Barbie Doll - and made some wings...paper towel cardboard tube made it perch on top of the tree!!
 

You know, some of the best memories are often the simplest things or just making it special with what you have/had to work with.

LuvSeason18 wrote:

View, unobstructed wrote:

I can't stay on long....

But I was going to ask you all - what is the earliest Christmas memory you have?   I remember shopping with my mom when maybe 4 yrs old.  And pointing to a life sized newborn baby doll.   And wanting it.  But no, couldn't buy it that day.

And then it was one of my Christmas presents!   So loved that dolly.

Oh wow,  What a great memory.  I have so many, but my biggest memories were that I always had to wait until my mother got up in the mornings, video camera in hand, before I could go out and see what Santa brought.  It was always mid-mornings...so it felt like forever. LOL  She had to video tape everything. heheh

One of the "sadder" Christmas was after my parents divorced.  We didn't do much that year to celebrate, but we did have a real Christmas tree, went to some kind of community party and brought home lots of yellow balloons.  That was all the "decorations" that we had on the tree that year.  It still ended up being a nice Christmas. Still have a picture of our "balloon" tree.. lol

awww.....thats sweet and it is the time spent with loved ones that matters

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Listening to the BEAUTIFUL Hallelujah    Thanks.

CEK40 wrote:

Something we started doing when the kids were little after Christmas we take all the ornaments off the tree and leave the lights on and then put balloons and party hats and streamers on it for New Years.  We started having a New Year Party with them when they were small, it usually happened at about 8pm because they were little and we had the sparkling grape juice and crackers, popcorn and cheese or pretzels for snacks....The kids loved it and they remember it now...

Oh, that is cool.  I like that idea.

Do you remember those "glass" ornaments?  We had dozens of them when I was younger.  So pretty, but dangerous, even when you were careful, they broke so easy.