| 12/23/08 02:33 PM |
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Linda Braden (Albert)
Roger, you just aren't right. I can't ever see me willingly getting up at 4 a.m. I guess it's what you get used to doing, though.
Thanks to all who shared their Christmas memories. Here are a few of mine:
When I was a kid at home, I used to love putting the icicles on the tree, that was the icing on the cake, so to speak. We had a real tree for years, usually a spruce (I think - the one with the really tight, short needles). It always was decorated with those lights in the primary reds, greens, blues and yellows that got SO HOT you could barely touch them when one burned out. My sister, who is much, much older than I am, had bubble lights on her tree that absolutely fascinated me. Seems like they have made a comeback in recent years - those early ones were considered fire hazards.
Something that hasn't been mentioned yet is the spray can of snow, where you could get stencils, hold them (or tape them) to the windows and spray the "snow" to leave the image of a candy cane or Christmas ornament or whatever. The windows in our house were the old-fashioned kind that had condensation on them, so I remember having to redo our stencils occasionally when they melted off the window.
Merry Christmas, everyone, and may each of us make good memories to share next year!
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