CHRISTMAS MEMORIES

                   Let's have some Christmas fun and stroll down

Memory Lane of Christmas. 

Some answers below to get you remembering.

What is your earliest Christmas memory?

Memories of ‘the Tree’

Christmas Traditions:

Worst present?

Best present?

Biggest shock?

Weirdest present?

Biggest let down:

It wouldn’t be Christmas without…

Traditional Feasting: Christmas Eve       Christmas Day

Best Christmas album/cd/song?

Best Christmas movies?           

What is your Christmas like now?

SOME ANSWERS :

What is your earliest Christmas memory? 

Falling asleep behind a chair when I was 4, to ‘catch’ Santa.

We always had an Advent calendar and an Advent wreath on the dining room table and the youngest lit the first candle.

Memories of ‘the Tree’

Dad used to put up the tree while we were asleep on Christmas Eve so it was a magical sight to behold when we came downstairs Christmas morning.  He used to put plastic stars or foil flowers around the colored bulbs so they would shine.  And every strand of tinsel was placed just so!  

Christmas Traditions:

Writing our letters to St Nick Dec. 6^th and leaving it in our shoes and getting a little gift in exchange.

Painting St Nicholas Cookies.      

New PJ’s Christmas Eve 

Jan 5:  We put out straw and water by the fireplace for the 3 Kings’ camels, and getting a little trinket in retrun.

Worst present?

Underwear – a necessity but wrapped up and placed under the tree?!  

Weirdest present?  A bag of cough drops

Best present?

Child: A Tressy doll: a Barbie look-a-like with (retractable) hair down to her toes

Biggest let down:

First time to Midnight Mass was in our elementary school gym/auditorium, the priest fell asleep.

One Christmas we went to visit relatives and they took the tree down on Dec 26!

The first Christmas in the monastery EVERYTHING was different, unfamiliar. Midnight Mass, at midnight, was nice, and the refreshments that followed were nice but everyone was so pooped the next day no one was around.  We opened a few small presents at night.

Feasting:  Christmas Eve: It seems to me at home it was a pick-up, nothing special.  Christmas day was a rerun of Thanksgiving except more cake and cookies than pies.

Best Christmas album/cd/song?

Amahl and the Night Visitors and the Kingston Trio. 

Hearing ‘O Holy Night’ sung by an ex-Marine who played Santa at the  Mall.   We were waiting for the stores to open and he just sang it, spontaneously, beautifully, making the mall a Cathedral.

What new Christmas Traditions are you creating
for your family?

             MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE RED NUNS