I thought I’d share my special Santa decoration today. It’s special because it reminds me of my dad.
Ho, Ho, Ho!
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Christmas changed from year to year
Today my column is about a frantic mother trying to figure out how to get Christmas together for her four children.
Home delivery wasn’t an option in 1982, nor was sending greetings over the Internet.
This is my account of Christmas preparations in that distant year.
Somehow things got pulled together. As I pulled out my hair, gifts made it under the tree. Thank goodness Santa made it to our house on time.
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Christmas 1980 style
Only three children but our house was filled with cheer and noise in 1980.
Today I’m remembering when I was a frazzled mother. I thought those days would never end. They have and now I appreciate those crazy days when I wanted to pull out my hair.
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Too many questions
With three children in 1981, Christmas was a production. But the big question was, When’s Santa coming?
An impossible question for this mother to answer. Back then the children had no sense of time.
Listen what happened when it started to snow in early December.
May you have good memories of your Christmases past and share them with family, too.
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Gift for Bob
Early in our marriage, Bob and I tried to find gifts for each other.
Bob never had a clue what to get me.
Eventually, we gave up trying.
Mostly, if I found a book for Bob, he got it as a gift. I didn’t always wait for Christmas.
Bob’s gifts for me came during the farming season. He’d bring me ditch daisies or even found turkey feathers. It was always something from nature, even a neat looking rock.
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