Merry Christmas....
Hey all! How come nobody told me it had been so long since my last blog. I apologize to my faithful readers, if I have any left.
There are so many things I could talk about...an impromtu trip to Kansas City, the fact I'm nearly half done with my first year of teaching, Lineville-Clio girls basketball, the Iowa Hawkeyes fast start to the basketball season....you get the point.
After thinking for ohhh...about 2 minutes, it was an easy decision about what to write about. It is Christmas time! I wish all of you a very merry Christmas. I do really enjoy Christmas. When the season starts I'm kinda a Scrooge. I don't like the whole "kick off the holidays right after Thanksgiving with a mega-sale!" I don't like music stations switching their entire programming to Christmas music as of Dec. 1 (I'm talking to you Lite 104.1). Even with all of this bah-humbug, I eventually come around. I hear "O Holy Night" or I watch a Christmas classic (Elf is my new favorite, though Christmas Vacation and of course It's A Wonderful Life are up there) and bam! My Christmas spirit is back. I've got my gifts, I've chipped in with donations where I can, I put on my smile and wish Merry Christmas to people. It is just that time of the year.
So, I would like responses to this blog. What are your favorite memories of Christmas? Of course I'm going to give mine:
1. Singing Silent Night with the dimmed lights on Christmas Eve with a guitar accompanying. Even my voice gets better on Christmas Eve ;)
2. Mom reading her old Christmas tale "Velvet Eyes" to my sister and I every Christmas Eve. It is an old book with pop-ups, pull-outs, etc. A classic!
3. My distinct memory of when I was 5 or 6 and playing with a new truck that I had got as a present by the tree. I swear to this day that I heard bells and at that moment Santa Doppler on WHO-TV 13 said Santa was above the Tv towers in Algona...right across the street from us. My mom says I never went to bed faster! No one will ever tell me that some sort of Santa doesn't exist after that ;)
4. Bundling up in the freezing cold to head out to church on Christmas Eve and lighting the lumanaries.
5. Going to see Christmas lights in the area after church...or making a trip to see the Nativity Scene in Algona. This Nativity is half life size made of chicken wire and plaster...It was built by German POWs during World War II at the POW camp in Algona. A very Christmasy story and very neat to see.
Okay...now your turn. Hit me with your favorite Christmas memories or traditions.
There are so many things I could talk about...an impromtu trip to Kansas City, the fact I'm nearly half done with my first year of teaching, Lineville-Clio girls basketball, the Iowa Hawkeyes fast start to the basketball season....you get the point.
After thinking for ohhh...about 2 minutes, it was an easy decision about what to write about. It is Christmas time! I wish all of you a very merry Christmas. I do really enjoy Christmas. When the season starts I'm kinda a Scrooge. I don't like the whole "kick off the holidays right after Thanksgiving with a mega-sale!" I don't like music stations switching their entire programming to Christmas music as of Dec. 1 (I'm talking to you Lite 104.1). Even with all of this bah-humbug, I eventually come around. I hear "O Holy Night" or I watch a Christmas classic (Elf is my new favorite, though Christmas Vacation and of course It's A Wonderful Life are up there) and bam! My Christmas spirit is back. I've got my gifts, I've chipped in with donations where I can, I put on my smile and wish Merry Christmas to people. It is just that time of the year.
So, I would like responses to this blog. What are your favorite memories of Christmas? Of course I'm going to give mine:
1. Singing Silent Night with the dimmed lights on Christmas Eve with a guitar accompanying. Even my voice gets better on Christmas Eve ;)
2. Mom reading her old Christmas tale "Velvet Eyes" to my sister and I every Christmas Eve. It is an old book with pop-ups, pull-outs, etc. A classic!
3. My distinct memory of when I was 5 or 6 and playing with a new truck that I had got as a present by the tree. I swear to this day that I heard bells and at that moment Santa Doppler on WHO-TV 13 said Santa was above the Tv towers in Algona...right across the street from us. My mom says I never went to bed faster! No one will ever tell me that some sort of Santa doesn't exist after that ;)
4. Bundling up in the freezing cold to head out to church on Christmas Eve and lighting the lumanaries.
5. Going to see Christmas lights in the area after church...or making a trip to see the Nativity Scene in Algona. This Nativity is half life size made of chicken wire and plaster...It was built by German POWs during World War II at the POW camp in Algona. A very Christmasy story and very neat to see.
Okay...now your turn. Hit me with your favorite Christmas memories or traditions.
posted by CKG at
11:36 PM
2 Comments:
Favorite Christmas memories... Hmmm... I'll give you top 3 (in random order!)
1) Playing Santa on Christmas morning. Being the youngest, I always get pick out the gifts people open. One for each family member, one at a time, of course. ;)
2) Mom's pecan waffles.
3) Waking up to see Santa's gifts on the mantle. Santa never wrapped our gifts, so we could always see the stuff he got us from the hallway since we weren't allowed to go into the living room until the folks woke up! :)
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Tempa, At
2:49 PM
Glad to see you are blogging again Christian.
Favorite Christmas Memory...
1.) Christmas Eve service. My absolute favorite thing, especially the music and sitting with family and friends.
2.) Writing Santa and asking for a baby doll crib/ changing station. And then coming downstairs and seeing it Christmas morning.
3.) Christmas Eve at my Grandparents house when all of the cousins got matching red scooters. And then we also wanted to make a skating rink outside, so we filled up pitchers and cups and poured water in the driveway in hopes of it becoming ice! Those were the days.
Merry Christmas!!!
Sarah
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