Give me some Holiday memories!
Dec. 20th, 2012 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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*
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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Date: Dec. 21st, 2012 01:21 pm (UTC)So sad about your friends' tragedy. That is surely a day impossible to forget.
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Date: Dec. 21st, 2012 06:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Dec. 22nd, 2012 03:27 am (UTC)