Today I'd like to ask YOU, dear readers, to share your Christmas memories or stories. What was The Best gift you ever received? What year did you so-want something that you didn't get? I do invite (and beg!) you to share your memories with me, Donna243@gmail.com.
I'll start with mine. The year was 1950, the place Fairfield, California, next to Travis Air Force Base where my dad was stationed. I recall being SO EXCITED to be invited to go with Mom and her friend on the train to Sacramento to go Christmas shopping in a big department store. Oh the joy!
I picked out Daisy......... life-size, soft-fleshed with curly red hair. Oh, she was wonderful. I was in heaven all the train ride home. I knew I'd not see her again until Christmas but that was not for lack of trying! Whenever the opportunity arose, I'd look into every closet, drawer and box but to no avail. Where was she?????
Christmas Day, there she was! In a white bassinette and with plenty of real baby clothes! (My brother was born in Aug 1950...this had been his bed and some of his clothes.) So where had she been? My parents, knowing their daughter well, had secreted her in the neighbor's shed!!!
Here she is today in an outfit that was my daughter's in 1963...
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