What are your earliest Christmas/other holiday memories?
If your child is old enough to have talked about his/her memories of prior years, what are their favorite memories?
My dad used to dress up as Santa on Christmas Eve and bring us our present. So my earliest memory of Christmas is Santa throwing a snowball up at our 2nd floor apartment window - that must have been the year I had just turned 5.
Probably a year later, we had no snow for Christmas. We always went to my grandparents for Christmas Eve evening for supper & opening presents. That year, my uncle Ralph, who loved to tease us, said we couldn't open presents until there was snow on the ground. I remember being upset because I believed him. lol
We do that with our kids now. :)
I remember the Christmas contata that the 5th-8th graders sang every other year for our Cchristmas Eve program. Everyone knew it by 2nd grade and sang it on the playground. I never got to sing it in church, because we move after 5th grade and they sang it my 6th and 8th grade years.
I remember staring at our skinny chimney wondering how fat Santa was going to squeeze through. I was 4 or 5.
I also remember my Dad dressing up as Santa for our Girl Scouts and asking on girl with short hair "What would you like, little boy?" This was in the 80s. There were no boys in GS back then.
I remember getting a blue bicycle I wanted when I was about 7.
Quoting fraujones:I remember staring at our skinny chimney wondering how fat Santa was going to squeeze through. I was 4 or 5. That's funny, you'd think most kids would wonder about that!
I also remember my Dad dressing up as Santa for our Girl Scouts and asking on girl with short hair "What would you like, little boy?" This was in the 80s. There were no boys in GS back then. There aren't boys in GS now, are there? It is funny that your dad thought she was a boy, didn't stop to think about where he was, I guess!
Gathering with all of our extended family on Christmas Eve.
This happened at my son school.
- GwenMB
on Dec. 3, 2012 at 9:39 PM