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surveypro2016

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Favorite Christmas Memory
« on: December 07, 2016, 01:12:08 pm »
What's your favorite Christmas memory?

We had five children in our house growing up. One year, one of my siblings gave another sibling and old pair of brown men's shoes. Each year, someone else was given the shoes. This went on for years. About 10 years ago, we were all adults with children of our own, I went to a thrift store and bought all the ugly brown men's shoes they had and wrapped them and gave them to everyone at Christmas. All my siblings laughed and all the little ones said What the Heck??? It was so funny.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2016, 01:53:28 pm »
One of my favorite Christmas Memories is when Santa Claus came to our house-not down the chimney (although it was big enough).  That is one that I will always remember. There were 10 of us and the surprise on our faces were amazing, happy, fun and heart felt that our parents made that happen.  Great memories.
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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2016, 02:49:38 pm »
.  Each year the guys would take turns playing Santa but as kids got older they started to question where Uncle so and so was. So we when they got to be about 5 and 6 we hired a Santa to come to the house on Christmas Eve and the kids were so confused they never questioned it again.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2016, 03:14:44 pm »
My  favorite Christmas memory wa when i was 5 and i crawled up on Santa Claus lap, and i smelled a very familiar scentand i knew only one man who wore it, My Grandpa. and i leaned in real close and said  grandpa i want a baseball amd mitt ( i am a girl but was a tomboy) .  Yep i got the baseball and mitt.  Because Santa Claus  told me to be very quit about who he was.  Oh yeah he spoiled me. The scent has always staid with me. When i had to go in for my first pet scan, he was there with me, or his scent was, so i would say he was there. I relaxed and every thing went fine. Grandma always made his after shave colonge and it was a faint pine scent.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2016, 05:07:23 pm »
My favorite Christmas memory was when I put together a baby quilt for my friend who was terminally ill with cancer.  She was expecting her first grandchild and didn't know if she would live long enough to meet the new baby.

She already bought the fabric and supplies for the quilt; however, she didn't feel well enough to make it.  I spent time during the month of December sewing the quilt for her and her grandchild.  I also bought some lace to add a ruffle and gave the quilt back to her before Christmas so it was ready before her grand child was born.  She was very pleased with the results.

My friend passed away in February after Christmas and I'm grateful for the opportunity to help her during the holiday season.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2016, 06:44:42 pm »
My favorite Christmas memory would be seeing the smiling faces on our 5 young granddaughters faces when we arrived at Disneyworld. We spent Christmas Day and all week there. Rang in the New Year too and then headed home. Such a great memory.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2016, 08:44:26 pm »
I was a young child & my dad had wrapped a big present for me. Inside that big box was another box wrapped & another & another & another, all wrapped inside. I remember getting so frustrated with each box being opened and my dad thought it was the funniest thing. Finally I got to the present (I don't remember what it was) and I love that feeling that not only was I getting a present but my dad having a good laugh on Christmas. Silly fun memory that means so much more to me now that I am older.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2016, 01:08:50 pm »
I still remember when we had traveled to my Grandmother's house, driving the whole way there. I had just stopped believing in Santa, but my younger sister was still a believer. Because I "knew" my parents had to pack our gifts in the car, on Christmas morning I was completely dumbfounded when both my sister and I got new bikes! We didn't drive to Grandma's with the bikes, so where did they come from?! I later learned that my dad had ordered them from a catalog and picked them up from the store on Christmas Eve when us kids went to bed.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2016, 02:36:15 pm »
My dad loved to invent things.

One Christmas, think I was 5, he had created a wooden toy horse that you would "gallope" across the floor by the way you moved your legs in its legs.

It was amazing. That was 68 years ago. Have no idea what happened to it over the years.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2016, 03:15:47 pm »
The time i spent it with my cousins and had amazing food.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2016, 01:13:30 pm »
One of my favorite memories was playing Monopoly with my family. We would usually play on the afternoon of Christmas day, or the day after Christmas. But the game would always end up the same way. My Mom would usually be bankrupt first, so she would go out to the kitchen and start dinner. My Dad would always win, and my sister would always get upset that she never did. We would then watch a movie on tv, usually Lassie or something like that. My Dad always wanted to watch The Guns of Navarone or some other movie with Clint Eastwood. Such happy memories I will always treasure.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2016, 01:16:13 pm »
Going out to my granma's to bake cookies and staying till Mom, Dad and all the rest of the family showed up!! My favorite one was one year I stayed out to help with the baking and then, my Aunt, granma and I set up the tree! It was fun.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2016, 02:26:22 pm »
I forgot how old I was, but when I was a kid, my mother let us sleep on the floor near the tree one Christmas. We were too excited to go up stairs to bed, so she let us sleep on blankets next to the tree, it was so much fun. We listened to Christmas music and admired the beautiful lights until we fell asleep.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2016, 06:08:05 pm »
This isn't a favorite memory but a memorial one. I was the youngest of 5 and we didn't have money for a Christmas tree. We lived in Wisconsin, my sister took my brothers lemon tree that he planted by seed in a large planter, and she decorated it with the lights and ornaments. It wasn't really the same for me but she tried to make me feel better.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Memory
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2016, 01:12:17 am »
My favorite Christmas memories are spending time with friends and family and watch great movies as well as great Christmas dinner. This is all I can think of.

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