Childhood Christmas Memories

[xseler]

Ok, I'll start....

Sparkly dog turds --- after the dog would always eat tinsel from the Christmas tree! Grandma's homemade candy would be a close second.

I know, I know, I must be 'wired' differently............

 

[thor447]

My grandmother playing the piano and grandfather frustrated by not having any batteries (every year). Someone always had something that needed batteries, and he was always out of whatever size it needed. Good times.

 

[turkeyrun]

My Great-grandmother (88) moving her chair from the dining table to the living room. Tapping her foot and wringing her hands, telling Mom and Grandma to hurry up clearing the table, "because these kids are anxious for Christmas."

 

[Firpo]

My fond childhood memory would be the whole family getting together and hearing their laughter. They’ve all about passed now and the handful that are left are scattered all over.

 

[Timmy59]

Putting a concussion egg on the sister's head with the radio flyer sled. It was one helluva knot. she ended up becoming a brain damaged obammy loving liberal that voted for joe. So I no longer feel any guilt . MERRY CHRISTMAS.

 

[Dorkus]

We were just talking about this with my mother. One year back in the day when I was in junior high I called the radio station over and over for them to play Grandma Got Ran over by a Reindeer. Gosh, my grandmother was pi$$%@ at me. I bet they played it ten times on Christmas Eve from me calling over and over.

 

[Forgalspop]

Our mother taught school, so she was always off during Christmas break, so we as a family would do large jigsaw puzzles and play lots of board games, such as Monopoly. Also, our mother did a great deal of baking of cookies, pies and pastries over the holidays.

My father's mother was from Sweden and so over the Christmas and New Years we would have lot's of traditional Swedish type foods, such as pickled herring, smoked whitefish, Swedish pancakes, lingonberry sauce, potato sausage, Swedish pastries, rye crisp crackers, and other Swedish type foods.

We lived in Northeast Kansas and my father would drive to Kansas City, Mo where there was a Swedish grocery store and purchase lots of Swedish type foods.

Often times it was cold enough over Christmas break we would go ice skating on local ponds and snow sledding.

Fond memories!

Merry Christmas to all!

 

[Dorkus]

We lived in Northeast Kansas and my father would drive to Kansas City, Mo where there was a Swedish grocery store and purchase lots of Swedish type foods.

If you said central Kansas I would have bet it was Lindsburg.

 

[Forgalspop]

If you said central Kansas I would have bet it was Lindsburg.

Been to Lindsburg, KS and Scadia, KS and Norway, KS. There are a fair number of Swedes, Norwegians, Scandinavians and Germans in Western Kansas. Same holds true for Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, etc.
They all migrated to the USA and many became great farmers growing lots of wheat.(bread basket).

When I was younger I worked for Missouri Pacific Railroad and worked in Central and Western Kansas. Many of the small towns had Mom and Pop restaurants ran by people of Swedish, Norwegian and Scandinavian decent. They all had great food. I would guess most are gone and now it's all fast food crap.

I grew up in Atchison, KS in the very northeast part of Kansas right on the Missouri river.

 

[Snattlerake]

Christmas Eve, we went to church and had the lighting of the last Advent candle and a candlelight recession singing Silent Night. Then to grandma's for opening presents. Then Christmas morning we fed the cattle and sheep then more presents at home.

Then either back to grandma's in town for my mom's inlaws and outlaws, about 30 people, or to Fairview to my other grandma's house to see the other inlaws and outlaws, about 20 people,

Feasting on everything from turkey and ham and roast beast to celery with peanut butter and a relish plate and pies and cakes, then football in the yard and ante over or board games while the adults watched football on TV and fell asleep. The younger kids played with farm animal sets, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs and dolls and tea sets.

Thanksgiving and New Year's Day were a repeat of getting together, board games, card games, football and baseball in the yard, and college games on TV.

That is my upbringing in a nutshell.