Give me some Holiday memories!

[sid]

People stopping by via "latest" are most welcome!

Share your winter holiday memories, whether childhood. adult, anti-, or other.

Me? My childhood memories are of my older brother waking me at who-knows-what hour of the morning on Christmas Day. Things were likely different when we were a bit younger, but I remember the two of us ripping open our presents before our parents were even out of bed. This seems so alien compared to more recent experiences of semi-large groups of people opening gifts, one at time for the optimum photo opportunities, on Christmas Eve or morning.

Later, we would head over to our paternal grandparents home in the nearby village where my father grew up, to join our two aunts and uncles-by-marriage and our seven cousins for food and more gifts. Is it a Wisconsin thing? I remember the grown-ups all tilting their wrapped gifts to see if they'd 'gurgle'. *g*

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[cheyinka]

This is what I miss about childhood Christmas celebrations: staying up really late on the night of December 23rd as my mom made pierogi from scratch (while we chatted and I helped a little bit), then waking up around noon the next day and having cheese pizza for breakfast, then eating an enormous amount of food at Christmas Eve dinner. I mean, sure, there were presents and midnight Mass and stuff, too, but "hey let's stay up until two am because we need pierogi for dinner" was awesome.

[sid]

What a great memory! I probably would've fallen asleep, lol.