Really off topic

[emily_in_nc]

Waiting until my parents let us run down the stairs and see what Santa Claus brought. The anticipation was SO exciting!

[tulip]

One year my little brother and I got up really early and wrapped ribbons around our waists and tucked ourselves under the tree. We waited there for a long time before our parents came in. They loved it, and still talk about it 35 years later!

[AlwayzOnDaMove]

Well, I wasn't really celebrating Christmas when I was a kid. I remember we used to had family gathering and praying all night ugh.. It was such a boring moments! lol but the food was great I think that is the only thing I'm excited about Christmas hahaha! and It's coming soon!

[Aggie_Ama]

Oh my I love Christmas, I have so many memories. It seems like every year something strikes me as magical. I love family, I love shopping, I love giving, I love getting, I love the cookies, the stockings. I miss my Pawpaw's old record player (a huge chest style one) playing carols, my Nanny got rid of it and my brother and I both cried when we realized that.

We used to go out weekly to this little pizza place, one with red checked table cloths and little candles in glass, the type of place you rarely see anymore. Anyway after leaving we would always walk by this toy shop, it was a pricey one not a Toys R Us but more of a boutique style. All fall there were these two really cool bears in the window, an astronaut and a hospital patient with a bandage. My brother and I wanted them so bad and every week we would stop to look. Early in December the bears were gone, we were absolutely crushed that someone had our bears. Little did we know my parents had bought them, best gift ever to open. I was probably 4 but I remember being so excited. My mom told me later she worked extra hours at her part time job to afford those bears because they were way more than any normal bear. I think they were $50 this must have been 1985. We of course cherished them and still have Cub Canaveral and I named mine Michelle.

Funny thing is this also the year Cabage Patch Kids were so popular, my Pawpaw wouldn't settle on not getting me one. He finally found one "on the black market" and paid $100 for it. I was so excited I could hardly contain it that Christmas.

Now that I think about it I cannot believe they wasted their money so silly but that day I thought I was just the luckiest little girl. I am sure my 4-year old squeels were some sort of payment.

My mom's favorite thing is to still have us decorate her tree. There are two beautiful little ceramic ornaments her sister bought us in 1982. A pink angel with Amanda Jean on it and a blue one that says Jason Wayne. We always hang them together near one another. Mom and Dad still use the same red plastic topper from 1975, the year they were married. It is inexpensive, a bell fell off, it is dated but it is the topper, has to be forever and ever!

[Fredwina]

Not really, my favorite, but most persisent.
Having to wait to open presents until dad got home from work (he was a pharmacist)