(Day 8 of the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories…Christmas Cookies) I’ve always enjoyed baking, though I rarely do it anymore. My arthritis makes it difficult to get around the kitchen. My speciality is chocolate stuffed peanut butter balls. They are small peanut butter balls with a couple of melted chocolate chips inside. I do the…
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The Year Our Outdoor Decorations Almost Downed Airplanes
(This is day 5 of the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: Outdoor Decorations…In Memory of my Dad) When I was growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, almost everyone in our neighborhood put up Christmas lights. Each house had one strand of big colored light bulbs and that was that. We had two…
My Christmas Ornament Collection
(Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories Day 3: Christmas Ornaments) When we were little, my parents bought the ornaments that came in a box. They were either satiny balls or colored glass ornaments with glitter on them. We had 5 or 6 boxes of ornaments that we put on the tree. Then in the 1970s, Hallmark…
The Charlie Brown Christmas Trees
Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: Day 1 We always had a real Christmas tree. My Dad was in charge of the tree. And no matter what my parents could afford he always came back with a Charlie Brown Christmas tree, then tried to convince the rest of us there was nothing wrong with it. To…
Dear Santa
(Day 6 of the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: Santa Claus) Each year around the end of October I began bugging my Mom about writing Santa. She would relent just before Thanksgiving. Usually around that time, the Sears toy catalog would arrive. The five of us would salivate over the pages, dreaming for things like…