{"id":3799,"date":"2014-12-11T03:57:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T03:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2014-12-11T04:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T04:06:24","slug":"down-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3799","title":{"rendered":"Down Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

While decorating the Christmas tree I always get nostalgic remembering Christmases past.\u00a0 David and I have shared so many together with children and without children.\u00a0 It was so much fun having children to get us up early Christmas morning and\u00a0watching them racing down the stairs to open the\u00a0presents that Santa had left.\u00a0 It’s not quite the same with two “old” people who get up later and creak down the stairs and make coffee and eat something before we open our presents to each other, but I would not want to change anything for the world.\u00a0 Christmas has always been special to me.\u00a0 I love the carols, the church services that celebrate Jesus’ birth, the Sunday school parties where grownups act like kids sometimes.\u00a0 I love that we celebrate Christ’s birth even though we are probably\u00a0a few months off on when He was born.<\/p>\n

Hanging each ornament on the tree reminds me of a past Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Santa on a stork.\u00a0 David’s grandmother gave this to us when we were expecting our first child, our older son.\u00a0\u00a0 The son who did the 5K with me on Thanksgiving day.\u00a0 I have kept it and put it on the tree every year since.<\/p>\n

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This little snowman candle looks its age.\u00a0 It use to hang on my grandfather’s tree.\u00a0 One year Daddy, my brothers and I went back in the woods behind my grandfather’s house and cut down a tree and brought it back to decorate.\u00a0 I don’t remember my grandparents having a Christmas tree very often, but I remember this one particular year.\u00a0 The ornaments were few, but I loved them and when\u00a0both my grandparents had\u00a0passed away, I was fortunate enough to get their ornaments.\u00a0 I have two of these snowmen.\u00a0 They are probably seventy or so years old.\u00a0 I love them.<\/p>\n

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A friend traveled to Europe and brought back this cute little wooden doll.\u00a0 Pull a string and her legs go up.<\/p>\n

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Our grandchildren made both of us an ornament one year.\u00a0 We found one broken this year which made me sad, but we still have this one.<\/p>\n

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McDonald’s gave these away in Happy Meals one year.\u00a0 I kept\u00a0this one\u00a0and put it on the tree.\u00a0 A Christmas mouse.<\/p>\n

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We made a trip to Hershey, Pennsylvania one year and I bought some tree ornaments.\u00a0 It was the vacation when, as we were driving there, our younger son sat up and said, “I think I left the freezer door open.”\u00a0 We had this big freezer that had a door that was hard to shut and I was always reminding the kids to shut it tight.\u00a0 I guess it had been ingrained in our son’s head and he thought he had left it open and panicked.\u00a0 David and I just looked at each other and said, “Well, it’s too late now.\u00a0 If all the food is defrosted there is nothing we can do about it.”\u00a0 I actually even forgot about it the rest of the trip and when we got home, the freezer door was closed tightly and all the food was fine.\u00a0 But it makes for a funny memory.<\/p>\n

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Things our children made at school always get put on the tree.<\/p>\n

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A few years ago we went to the Virgin Islands and I bought this wonderful sailboat with Christmas lights strung on the sail.<\/p>\n

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Through the years I have made ornaments.\u00a0 This is suppose to be a reindeer with twig antlers.<\/p>\n

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A tiny manger scene I have had for years.<\/p>\n

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One year my daughter and I decided we didn’t like all the “old” ornaments so we went to Target and bought all new balls and decorations for the tree.\u00a0 David did not like that tree so he put up another one with all the old ornaments on it.\u00a0 Now I very seldom use the new ornaments we bought although I do love these particular ones.<\/p>\n

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I love our tree.\u00a0 We considered not putting it up this year as we had put a tree on the new porch, but it just didn’t seem right not to have a tree in the house so while I took a three mile walk last Sunday with Belle and Molly Marshmallow which became a drag me three miles walk, David put the tree together(yes, it’s a fake tree)\u00a0 and we decorated it and I am so glad we did.\u00a0 It sits in my girly room where I can see it while I work on Christmas projects.<\/p>\n

Christmas memories are wonderful.\u00a0 Sometimes they make you laugh, sometimes they make you miss someone, and sometimes they just make you happy.\u00a0 Hope you have more happy memories than sad ones this Christmas.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While decorating the Christmas tree I always get nostalgic remembering Christmases past.\u00a0 David and I have shared so many together with children and without children.\u00a0 It was so much fun having children to get us up early Christmas morning and\u00a0watching them racing down the stairs to open the\u00a0presents that Santa had left.\u00a0 It’s not quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-memories","category-home-and-family","category-taking-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}