Some of my Favorite Holiday Memories.....

(copied from MD_
posted 11/9/2006 11:55:33 AM
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I was listening to the radio this morning and Christmas was mentioned.. and for whatever reason I started thinking about the Holiday's when I was a kid which triggered some very special memories... Sled riding with my brothers and sisters and cousins.... being so cold you thought you were freezing to death but refused to go inside and warm up because it was just too much fun... Making Homemade Ice-cream... mixing everything together and placing the ice-cream maker in a snow bank so it would freeze faster.. YUM Making Homemade Potato Chips - we would gather in the kitchen and have an assembly line going... someone would wash the potato's, someone would slice them, someone would dry them, someone would place them in the deep fryer and then someone would salt them, and then we'd all enjoy them... nothing better then Homemade Potato Chips and chocolate.... lol Decorating the porches and outside doors with pine limbs to give them that evergreen look and smell. Laying under the Christmas Tree with just the tree lights on planning our sledding adventures for the next day or singing Christmas Carols... My Grandma and Grandpa arguing with each other when they came over for the Holiday meal and the fun times we had with them. I really miss them especially at this time of the year.... That heavy wet snow fall that was great for making snow angels and having snow ball fights. The kind that hangs on the trees especially Pine Trees and makes them look so beautiful. Racing our runner sleds down the driveway (we had a very long driveway) to catch the bus for school and my sister running over her scarf and almost choking herself... and my running over my lunch and squashing it.. but it was the best lunch ever! Getting to see all of the relatives that came to visit during the Holiday Season... and the ones who came after Christmas just to see what you got. The HUGE Chocolate bars my Aunt and Uncle gave us every year... It was the BEST chocolate ever... Making Gingerbread Cookies... my mom had this recipe that made like 12 dozen cookies. My brothers and I would sit at the kitchen table for hours cutting out cookies and decorating them.. by the time they got baked no one wanted any because he had tasted too much of the dough..... back when they didn't have such a fit about those things...Breaking Icicles off from the porch roof and eating them... or making snow pies and eating those.. (never the yellow or brown snow though! )I must admit that I miss living up north during the Holidays.... this trip down memory lane makes me realize that I want to spend Christmas up north ... at least one more time.. Maybe next year I can work things out that I can do that... better start saving my pennies! Knowing my luck if I do go there for Christmas it won't snow! Thanks for letting me share some memories with you. Please feel free to add your own.