Day 2 of the 12 Days of Christmas Project!

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thanks again to injj for bringing our tree to life. This was an UNCLE Christmas ornament project from 2013

The twelve days of Christmas project.

Each we'll be posting the UNCLE Christmas tree and we'd like
all the cousins to share a happy memory of Christmas' past as a comment,
 and leave as a present under the tree.

There's nothing like our treasured memories, they're gifts
that will be with us always!


This is DAY 2 of the 12 days of Christmas Project!

Comments

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

For years we've gone to my cousin's house for Christmas eve, and all the family would be together. (except for my brother who lived in Florida) The town would (and still does) have a Santa in his sleigh on a flat bed being pulled my one of the fire engines from one of the local firehouses. Santa would make special stops and certain houses, and of course it would be at my cousin's house.

Her granddaughter who was the only little one, was scared of Santa and would stay inside, but all us 'goofy adults' would go out on the lawn waving and yelling hello to Santa (who was one of the local police officers) of course we'd get hugs, kisses and candy canes from Santa. It was a funny sight, and a fond memory.

Sadly Santa doesn't stop anymore, and the Christmas eve tradition is changing since my oldest cousin moved to Florida (she's the one who gave me her car) Christmas eve we'll all meet at her sister's apartment, in the same complex where I live. It won't be the same with out the eldest cousin and London love Victor not being there.

Victor always made a every English Christmas feat for us. Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, Brussels sprouts with chestnuts, and don't forget the Christmas pudding. There was so much more along with poppers and paper crowns. On Christmas day he'd make bubble and squeak from the left overs. Alas, no more. Life changes.

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

My favorite memory of Christmas' past has to be when my Dad made the toy planes for the movie "A Christmas Story." The film was shot in nearby Cleveland. He was contracted to build 5 airplanes for one of the opening scenes. Here's a pic of one of them.

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

I saw a blurb on a TV magazine show about the "A Christmas Story" museum. I went to YouTube and found a vid. There was a plane in one of their showcases but I don't see how it could have been an original from the movie. All of the toys in that scene were donated to a children's hospital.

[pfrye.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily a happy memory but a vivid one. I was out of the military, had a job with the federal government, my son was living on his own and it was the first Christmas in many, many years when I'd be alone. Just me and my little pet cockateil "Boggy" to whom I'd been whistling "Jingle Bells" to for about two weeks. I can't whistle so my "Jingle Bells" was not very good, sort of flat and tuneless to say the least. Christmas morning comes and I've got a big case of the blues when I suddenly hear (for the first time) Boggy whistling Jingle Bells - he had saved his debut until Christmas morning. I sat crying into my cup of coffee and loving this little bird so much!

[sidhe-uaine42.livejournal.com]

My favourite holiday/festival memory was when my friends Tyler and America invited me over to their place to celebrate along with her mother and a couple of other people. I baked a cheesecake for dessert as a "just in case" (a good for something thing because her mother's pumpkin pie went over like a lead zeppelin [the pie was from a vegan recipe that she found online and it was terrible].) One of their furred managers basically waited for my arrival and stayed by my side pretty much the entire time without her usual "cartoon bubble"/"emoticon" (DIE!) which kinda got Tyler's nose out of joint.

When I got home, Tovarish was playing a round of Catch-the-Tail on "our" headboard, and she also found some of my polyhedral dice to play with. I then crumpled up a piece of junk mail and we finished the rest of the day playing together. She hasn't changed much in the six years between then and now (we don't need a television to entertain us or anything, in spite of all the hype/grief I get about that.)