Day 6 of the 12 Days of Christmas Project. YOU'RE INVITED!

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

The twelve days of Christmas project.

Each day the UNCLE Christmas tree posts in section7mfu
and we'd like all the cousins to come visit and  share a memory of
Christmas' past as a comment, and leave it as a present under the tree.

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

Give someone a smile with one of your favorite personal
memories, anectotes, or stories, songs...anything from your
Christmas Past, OR even what you're looking forward to this year!

Time to get into the Spirit of Christmas.

(along with some spirits at the Canteen Christmas party!)

Comments

For those of you who lived where it does snow...

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

We had our first snow today. Only about an inch, though the snowfall is now changing over to rain. Glad I don't have anywhere to go.

For some reason I still get excited seeing the first snow, and just for a very brief second it makes me feel like a little kid again. All the memories come back of playing and sledding in the snow, building snowmen, having snowball fights. Running with my dog in the snow drifts. She'd always drag me to the deepest one and I'd end up buried up to my hips. I swore that dog laughed and smiled at me when she did that.

Granted reality sets back in quickly for anyone who has to go shovel, clear off the car and perhaps schlep to work. Still, doesn't that first snow just give you a fleeting smile, recalling more innocent times when all we had to do was to go play out in that pristine white stuff drifting down from the sky?

Memories of coming in with frozen fingers and toes and warming up with hot chocolate or Ovaltine? Maybe mom would make you a grilled cheese sandwich, and a bowl of tomato soup. Then you'd get dressed in all your warm layers, go outside and build a snow fort? Sigh.

RE: For those of you who lived where it does snow...

[duckys-lady.livejournal.com]

I lived in Austin, Texas when I was little and it snowed so rarely that the one time we had snow, my parents came and roused my sisters and I from bed at about 4 am so we could see it. It was so fun bundled up in our jackets and mittens and trying to catch snowflakes on my tongue. By morning, it was long gone, but the memory is still there!

RE: For those of you who lived where it does snow...

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

That is such a wonderful memory. Thank you for sharing it. :D It's triggering lots of memories for me, that's for sure.