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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Merry Christmas
I just want to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas. May your day be fulled with love, family and friends. Be safe and take a moment to remember the precious gift we were given on this day.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Advent Calendar: Christmas Gifts
When I think of the gifts I enjoyed receiving as a child, I think of my first 2 wheeler bike, of course when I first received it on Christmas morning it had training wheels on it. The bike was blue, my favorite color. My first wallet was a fun gift, it was blue and a little girl's wallet.
Now I like the gift that my friends pick out with care that fit me, like the lambs or special ornaments. I especially like handmade gifts.
The gifts I like to give the most are hand made ones or ones that I look at and think oh that is so like....
The best fun about gifts is when you go to a friends house and see the special items you made or picked out for them are out and about the house.
One of the fun people I buy gifts for is our daughter Kierra, she loves vampires and skulls and all, so I start buying her Christmas gifts at Halloween. I have fun some fun stuff and she really like them. Here she is from last Christmas with her favorite gift of Skeletons, See No Evil, Speak No Evil & Hear No Evil.
It is a lot different when you are a child then the gift power is in the fun it can be but as an adult it is about the joy or memories a gift can bring.
Now I like the gift that my friends pick out with care that fit me, like the lambs or special ornaments. I especially like handmade gifts.
The gifts I like to give the most are hand made ones or ones that I look at and think oh that is so like....
The best fun about gifts is when you go to a friends house and see the special items you made or picked out for them are out and about the house.
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| Kierra & Will with her gift she loved |
It is a lot different when you are a child then the gift power is in the fun it can be but as an adult it is about the joy or memories a gift can bring.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Advent Calendar: Grab Bag
Author’s choice. Please post from a topic that helps you remember Christmases past!
My Dad was a fireman and he worked 24 hours on and 48 hours off. I can still see the little calendar he received each year, there were three shifts and it was color coded, like blue, yellow and red and depending on which shift you were, that was the day you worked. It was nice to know a year in advance what days you would be working.
When we were little I am sure it didn't matter which day we celebrated Christmas the 24th or the 25th but as we were bigger I am sure they changed plans a little. What I do remember is if he was working Christmas day, my Dad would take us out for a ride in the car to see Christmas lights on Christmas Eve. Some how my Mom always stayed home. I don't remember any excuse she gave but she stayed home. After we were gone for a while, stay an hour or so. We would come home Mom would pretend she was waking up from a nap and guess who had visited while we were gone, Santa.
If my Dad had to work Christmas Eve and he came home from work on Christmas morning we had to wait for him to get home to open gifts. Do you know what I just realized there were a lot of Christmases my mother had to play Santa alone. I bet those years were not the years we received bikes.
This way no matter what day my Dad worked we all could celebrate Christmas together as a family. My Mom was a nurse but I don't remember how her working impacted our Christmas other then maybe we got up earlier to celebrate before she went to work. And what kid would argue about getting up earlier? None I know.
My Dad was a fireman and he worked 24 hours on and 48 hours off. I can still see the little calendar he received each year, there were three shifts and it was color coded, like blue, yellow and red and depending on which shift you were, that was the day you worked. It was nice to know a year in advance what days you would be working.
When we were little I am sure it didn't matter which day we celebrated Christmas the 24th or the 25th but as we were bigger I am sure they changed plans a little. What I do remember is if he was working Christmas day, my Dad would take us out for a ride in the car to see Christmas lights on Christmas Eve. Some how my Mom always stayed home. I don't remember any excuse she gave but she stayed home. After we were gone for a while, stay an hour or so. We would come home Mom would pretend she was waking up from a nap and guess who had visited while we were gone, Santa.
If my Dad had to work Christmas Eve and he came home from work on Christmas morning we had to wait for him to get home to open gifts. Do you know what I just realized there were a lot of Christmases my mother had to play Santa alone. I bet those years were not the years we received bikes.
This way no matter what day my Dad worked we all could celebrate Christmas together as a family. My Mom was a nurse but I don't remember how her working impacted our Christmas other then maybe we got up earlier to celebrate before she went to work. And what kid would argue about getting up earlier? None I know.
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