Contents
1988
- Moving West
- Born in a Chicken House
- Waldersee
- Holes in the Garage
- Animals and the Cellar
- Prune Picking
- Mud-Bathing and School
- Evenings and Grampy Pfeiffer
- Reading and Spankings
- More School
- Church and Dresses
- Christmas
1992
Reminiscences of and for the Family |
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Since this is a Christmas present, I should finish off with a memory or two
about Christmas. Our family gift unwrapping was always Christmas Eve, and
since there was a Children's Program at church on Christmas Eve, the
unwrapping was deliciously late. Grandparents and aunts and uncles brought
gifts to the church tree too, but I seem to remember we usually unwrapped
them all at home. Our tree almost always came from our own place. There was
a ceremony on my birthday of the tree cutting and it was up from that day
until way after Christmas. Since the only "boughten" decoration was the box
of tangerines, they were hanging on the tree until they were almost
petrified. We hung them with heavy thread and if course it cut through the
tender skins, so we found new places to drive the holes, and pretty soon we
fashioned little hammocks to hold the slowly decaying fruit. Sometimes we
strung popcorn, sometimes cranberries, and we always had lights. Never
twinkling lights. There were even a few precious remaining tiny
candle-holders that clipped on the tree, but they were NEVER lighted. It was
good, and I pray you all have happy memories too.
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