This is my sister, Stacy and I on Christmas day, 197?. We usually got a variation of the same thing and loved it! However, one Christmas Eve, we just couldn't sleep. After laying in bed with our eyes wide open (well up into the wee morning hours) and several trips to our parents room, our mother finally decided to take us into the living room and show us what we got. We weren't quite sure how to take that but, one thing was for sure, we were not getting any sleep until we knew. And SLEEP was the one thing that our mother just happened to want. Now, I know this sounds extreme but, we had older siblings who were very out of the excited stage and we also had a certain tradition in our home every Christmas morning before gifts.
We always held a testimony meeting in our parents room. So, with seven children and two parents, you can imagine how long and how short some of those testimony's were. However, we did not know any different, it was what we did on Christmas morning. The only family testimony meeting we ever held during the year. Looking back, I think it is one of the things that has kept us close. My own little family has adopted that tradition and they do not know any different either. In fact, I think they look forward to it just as much as I do. Thank goodness my kids can sleep on Christmas Eve, though.
I had to show this picture because Troy is actually putting garland on the tree. He'll help with the lights sometimes but then he lets us take over. Yeah Troy! He even put our outside lights up just a day after Thanksgiving!
Last year we had a "MOM" tree and a "KID" tree but this year we only did one so, I relinquished my decorating to the kids. It was a lot of fun and our neighbor down the street even joined us. I will be sad to have to put everything away in January. However, it will be nice to have snow to preoccupy me.
5 comments:
I remember those strollers! Crazy... my vote is it's 1974.... I forgot about your testimony tradition. That's a neat idea but yeah, I think it would have drivin me nuts as a kid! Your tree looks great. It would be a kodak moment in our home too if John was putting a garland on the tree! You guys should come for a visit, soon! Maybe while the kids are off of school...
Mom was too good to us!!!!
That's a pretty special tradition....thanks for sharing. Hope your christmas is wonderful!!!
I LOVE the doll strollers, why can't they make them like they use to?? Miss you guys :)
Thank you so much for your comments on my Blog Mindy. I'm so grateful for Cynthia for so many reasons this year and one big one is finding you. You are such a sweet treasure. Christmas traditions are wonderful and mean so much to me. Even after your parents are gone they still live on in the memories and traditions they instill in us. I love that part of holidays. I want to start the testimony tradition. That is a great idea! My sister and I had baby carriages like that too. (((hugs))) Adele
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