gtky favorite christmas memory

MinnesotaMomma91 · December 2013

Im curious does anyone have a favorite christmas memory?

I think mine would be from when i was five or six, it was the year lion king came out. My parents got me this giant stuffed simba that roared. I didnt know it roared until i squeezed it. I freaked out and ran to my dad and wouldnt touch simba for a couole days. He then became my FAVORITE toy.

Poot simba was my first make up victim, i mearn errr client.

BlondieBia21 · December 2013

My favorite memory is the day before Christmas when I was 10. My neighbor (who'd been my best friend since I was 3) and I literally played in snow all day long that year. Since we moved in, we always spent Christmas eve playing together since we didn't have family plans. I promised him that when he came back out after dinner that I'd have a snowman taller than me built. I FINALLY got it accomplished, only to have him come outside and run straight at it and knock it down. I cried, so hard. I ran inside and tattled on him and refused to go back out. It was like 9 at night (super late back then ya know lol) and he came and rang the door bell and my mom told me to go get it, I looked out there and he rebuilt it (in smaller size, we'd pretty much ruined the snow by then ha), then wrote "sorry" in the snow with snow cone syrup haha..

He was my best friend, and that was the last Christmas we spent together. He was killed in a car accident 8 months after. I will ALWAYS cherish that snowman. I haven't built a snowman since, but they'll always hold a special place in my heart. I have a picture of me with the snowman, but he wouldn't get in the picture.

Wasn't I super cute?

MinnesotaMomma91 · December 2013

BlondieBia21 said:
My favorite memory is the day before Christmas when I was 10. My neighbor (who'd been my best friend since I was 3) and I literally played in snow all day long that year. Since we moved in, we always spent Christmas eve playing together since we didn't have family plans. I promised him that when he came back out after dinner that I'd have a snowman taller than me built. I FINALLY got it accomplished, only to have him come outside and run straight at it and knock it down. I cried, so hard. I ran inside and tattled on him and refused to go back out. It was like 9 at night (super late back then ya know lol) and he came and rang the door bell and my mom told me to go get it, I looked out there and he rebuilt it (in smaller size, we'd pretty much ruined the snow by then ha), then wrote "sorry" in the snow with snow cone syrup haha..

He was my best friend, and that was the last Christmas we spent together. He was killed in a car accident 8 months after. I will ALWAYS cherish that snowman. I haven't built a snowman since, but they'll always hold a special place in my heart. I have a picture of me with the snowman, but he wouldn't get in the picture. Wasn't I super cute?

That is so beautiful and sad and such a great story! Im sorry to hear about the loss of your friend though

MommyAmes2 · December 2013

BlondieBia21 said:

My favorite memory is the day before Christmas when I was 10. My neighbor (who'd been my best friend since I was 3) and I literally played in snow all day long that year. Since we moved in, we always spent Christmas eve playing together since we didn't have family plans. I promised him that when he came back out after dinner that I'd have a snowman taller than me built. I FINALLY got it accomplished, only to have him come outside and run straight at it and knock it down. I cried, so hard. I ran inside and tattled on him and refused to go back out. It was like 9 at night (super late back then ya know lol) and he came and rang the door bell and my mom told me to go get it, I looked out there and he rebuilt it (in smaller size, we'd pretty much ruined the snow by then ha), then wrote "sorry" in the snow with snow cone syrup haha..

He was my best friend, and that was the last Christmas we spent together. He was killed in a car accident 8 months after. I will ALWAYS cherish that snowman. I haven't built a snowman since, but they'll always hold a special place in my heart. I have a picture of me with the snowman, but he wouldn't get in the picture. Wasn't I super cute?

That is the most touching story ever.

Also... I cannot get over the fact that you are wearing that dang pooh bear. I hate him. I am a pooh hater.

MommyAmes2 · December 2013

When I was 6, my parents got me a Pom. I named her Muffin, she was the sweestest dog ever.

BellaOso · December 2013

The year my grandma was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer we all took time away from our lives and just hung out at the house. For 2 weeks my family from Seattle and So Cal all came and stayed in the quiet little town they grew up in and we just hung out. That year we learned to make "W%ashi Eggs" (to prevent google search,) these ornaments made of blown eggs, special fabric-y paper, and glaze. They have to be cut and folded a certain way and to come out right each cut has to be perfect. We obsessed over making the perfect egg. We did it because it was something to do, and we talked for hours and hours while 3 generations of women just made these eggs. Each one took a couple hours and we made several dozen. We hung them on the tree for Christmas that year. It was her last Christmas.

After that for about a year, I made an egg or two a month. I hang them on my tree every year with the others. My tree is mostly eggs. My aunts and I take pics of out trees and send them back and forth every year. It's a happy/sad memory. We took the time and said goodbye right. We love remembering the laughs we shared over those 2 weeks.

I love those eggs. I can't wait until my girls are old enough to learn to do them. Maybe one year there will be 3 generations of women making W%ashi Eggs again.

Okay... gonna go call my Aunties now.

Revez · December 2013

My parents were a part of a really weird church that wasn't allowed to celebrate anything (it's a long story). So I never had a birthday party, Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween or Christmas until I was 6-7.

I remember my first Christmas, I couldn't understand why I had so many gifts (it wasn't a lot but at the time seemed like it). I was so overwhelmed I cried and cried and didn't know what to do with myself.

Every year I try to remember that feeling of overwhelming thankfulness so that I don't take all that I'm given for granted.

Eta: typo

TexasGirl81 · December 2013

This may sound weird, but a few years after my dad died my mom had been working numerous jobs just to make ends. Well on Christmas me, my sis and bro had only one present each. Which was not like it had ever been. My mom was sad and ashamed and she basically said "I'm sorry, this year we just don't have much". I was very small at the time. However, it was right then when I looked at our one gift and didn't even care about that gift, I was just happy we all had each other. I just wanted her to return them. I hated that she felt so bad. That memory taught me early on about "family values".

BubblyDevil · December 2013

First, some background info- my grandparents raised me and they are the only "mom and dad" that I know.

One year I was like 7 or 8 and I woke up in the middle of the night and decided it was a perfect time to open my presents. I went downstairs, turned the tree on and quietly began unwrapping my gifts. By the time my mom woke up, it was 5am and I had everything open! I should have been in a lot of trouble, but when she woke my dad to tell him/have him yell at me, he couldn't stop laughing.

Mom died December 23, 1999 and dad died this past February... Christmas always is special time for me and I hope my LO will grow up having amazing memories like I do.

kkay1982 · December 2013

Mine is an ongoing Christmas memory/tradition. Every Christmas Eve we have bread bowls with soup at my parents, then off to church for a Christmas Eve service and then we all get in the car (now van as our family grows) and go look at Christmas lights as a family. We always just have a fun carefree time and it's wonderful. Our family has 9 people now with LO and we have outgrown my parents can and I was bummed that we would have to stop the tradition or break into two cars, but my dad us going to be able to borrow his church's 15 passenger van so the tradition continues!

coraggiosa · December 2013

I think if you had asked me this question a little over a year ago, it would have been different. That being said, my grandpa passed away last year, and I really miss him.

Since he passed away, I often find myself thinking of this one memory I have from Christmas Eve when I was probably 17 years old. I should preface this by saying that my grandfather was a very serious, non-emotional man. He was the CEO of an international company and was business-like all the time. He was not the affectionate kind of person. However, that year I had to work on Christmas Eve at the grocery store because I bagged groceries and fetched carts from the parking lot. I had gone in at 6AM and worked until 2PM. Then, I helped my mom get things ready for Christmas Eve dinner and then we went to Mass. I was exhausted. After dinner, I was sitting at his feet (he was in an armchair), and I was yawning continuously. He reached over, patted my head, and then guided it onto his lap and whispered, "Go ahead and take a nap, sweetheart." I think I fell asleep in 5 seconds. There's actually a picture of it as well.

Now that he's gone, it's one of my favorite memories of him.

BabyE143 · December 2013

I have to say last year was my favorite. We announced our pregnancy in a thoughtful way. My mil had a charm bracelet we bought her for Mother's Day and we decided the last gift that would be opened would be hers. It was a charm that said grandma. She couldn't read it at first and needed her glasses but when she did she started crying. We bought my mom a pandora charm bracelet too and added a baby carriage charm with an M for her other granddaughter. It took her a while to figure out what it meant bc the last thing she was expecting was to become a grandma again. I still have that bracelet and plan to keep it bc of the memory it holds.

This year I'm excited to surprise my sisters with a recordable book that my mom recorded for us girls. It's going to be a really special gift!

LiylaRae · December 2013

When I was ten my dad was really sick and in ICU for 4 months before he passed away. But I made him a clay heart in school and gave it to him for Christmas and told him I was giving him a heart because his was failing. Anyways we spent all day with my dad and I ended up falling asleep in the hospital bed with him. It was my last Christmas with him and even though I wish I circumstances would of been different, that day was perfect to me because I got to spend it with him. I think all my holiday memories with my dad are my favorite because now that he's gone they are really hard for me.

Coconuthead · December 2013

Breakfast is the big deal in my family on Christmas. We always have blueberry muffins, deviled eggs, bacon, and coffee for adults, cocoa for kids. We couldn't open our presents until after breakfast so Christmas morning we would always be up early so we could eat but my dad would hand the gifts out so no matter how fast we ate we would have to wait for him to finish.

Last Christmas was my partner's first with my family, also my father's last as he passed away in June. We weren't ready to announce my pregnancy yet so my partner had to drink my beer. He would drink his then we would switch so I had the empty bottle. It was quite a holly jolly Christmas for him!

Eta: Wow...I got the Christmas memories and Christmas traditions threads blended into my head as one thread. Mommy brain fail!

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