Give me some Holiday memories!

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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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[annieb1955.livejournal.com]

My main memory of Christmases past as a child was that it was always hot. We hardly ever had a proper "cooked" Xmas lunch. Most often Dad would barbecue chops and sausages and Mum would make salads and we'd all sit around a huge table that consisted of several tables pushed together (I came from a family of 10 kids). My favorite Xmas memory was of the china walkie talkie doll bought for my twin sister and I by one of my older sisters. Raylee was 15 years older than we were and doted on us.

My saddest memory was being woken up a few days before Xmas when I was 12 to be told our childhood best friends had been killed in a terrible road accident on Kangaroo Island. There were 4 of them aged from 15 down to 4. Three of them were my brother in law's younger sisters and brother. I still remember that day every year.

[sid]

For the opposite of a hot Christmas, one of my favorite memories, from when I was about 14, is of Grandpa giving us all a ride on his snowmobile!

So sad about your friends' tragedy. That is surely a day impossible to forget.

[annieb1955.livejournal.com]

I have always wanted to experience a cold white Xmas just once.

[sid]

I hope one day you'll get the chance!