orangedaisy Posted November 3, 2005 Posted November 3, 2005 What things stand out in your mind when you think about the holidays when you were a kid? I remember my dad using those really big bulb lights outside the house, top to bottom. It always looked so nice. My mom always baked home-made chocolate chip cookies on Christmas eve, a tradition that I have carried into my adult life. On Christmas morning, we would wake up around 6 am and have to wait in one of our bedrooms until our parents felt like getting up. Then we would go downstairs in "born order" (there were 4 of us). Looking back, my older brother was pretty smart - he was the oldest and made up the born order rule. We never caught on that the rule meant he was always first, LOL!!Next? :)
dealluvr Posted November 3, 2005 Posted November 3, 2005 we always went to my aunts house christmas morning.well after opening presents and stuff like that everybody was helping to make dinner.turkey was done all the big stuff but the sides and everything.anyway throughout the day until we ate everybody was in and out of the kitchen.wel turns out that every time an adult went into the kitchen they would throw a shake of salt into the carrots.when we ended up sitting down to eat everybody turned a sour face when they tasted the carrots.everybody one by one tasted and everybody ended up eyeballing everybody and the carrots had like a lot of salt in them,probably like 1/4 cup for a small dish.from then on we never served carrots and it was always the topic of all get togethers. also with this story goes that when my uncle picked us up that morning he got stuck in the snow(about 2 feet) so he got out to push while my mom drove.my mom had no idea how to drive anything.she drove into a tree.it didn't hurt the car not that i remember anyway
elena_398 Posted November 3, 2005 Posted November 3, 2005 Going to my aunts house on christmas day. She was a major baker and the smells of her house.
tishaclayton Posted November 3, 2005 Posted November 3, 2005 I remember getting up with my brothers at like 3am..and then we would go and see what Santa brought us..Then we would all camp out in the living room.. LOL..We did this the year my oldest brother came back from the Army.. We were 20,17,15,7..All of us camped out in our little living room..
Gporter34 Posted November 3, 2005 Posted November 3, 2005 We always have had a very LARGE family and my best memories are of Christmas at our house. My grandparents lived with us for the first 13 years of my life and my grandmother always started cooking a few days before the holidays. There was so much food. Everything you could imagine for Christmas was there. ALL of the family would come to our house. My grandparents had seven kids who all had at least two kids, most had four and a couple had six kids.lol I had so much fun with my cousins during the holidays. We would go down in the woods about three weeks before Christmas and pick a tree. Then about two weeks before, we would go and cut it and bring it up to the house. The decorations were the ones my grandmother had used since her kids were small. Big colorful lights. Now our family NEVER gets together. That is the part I miss most.
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