I love Christmas and had thousands of dollars worth of ornaments, decorations, nativity scenes things my family made... All gone because they were in my storage. But I have memories.
My first Christmas I remember.
The First Christmas I actually remember was a couple of things and rather feel more like a vague memory, like a dream.
But this is what I remember
I was about 3 years old and we were living in San Diego, California. I had a cousin, Jason, living with us, and his mom, Karen. My older sister, Darci was 4-5 and younger sister Shauri was about 2. My mom at the time was a single mother and my aunt Karen, As I remember her, I showed my mom one of my first memories of her my mom laughed sooo hard and said,"That's it! That is Karen!" Karen would drink a lot and so my mom would care for us while Karen drank. But I remember mom and Karen would have the prettiest long finger nails and they would snap their fingers and it was sooo cool to me. I remember my mom always baking bread, cookies, Cinnabons (Cinnamon Rolls), and we would decorate teh cookies.
This particular Christmas I remember because it was the fisrt time I remember memorizing a song: "Up On the House top" and I loved it. I would have my mom sing it with me over and over and over. I remember Dean Martin Christmas Record playing and I knew my mom did not care for Jazz, but she loved Christmas records and we had many records. My mom would play the Christmas records and we would sing along but when Up on the House Top came on... Wow... I would dance and sing and my mom and aunt Karen... When the song would say... "Up on the house Top, click click click... " They would snap their fingers to the "click".
Their clicks were loud and strong like a real jingle bells click!
We were baking Christmas Cookies one day with the click click click came on and I remember my mom was wearing an Apron, it was a Christmas apron (My mom LOVES Aprons) and my aunt Karen was wearing one, too and they would bake while we decorated at the kitchen table singing the Christmas Carols. The click click click came on and I remember wanting to learn to snap my fingers like they did... I remember thinking ... Wow! How cool my mom and Aunt Karen were.
I remember that year Jason was with us. Jason was the cutest boy and because he lived with Karen, my mom sisters and I, he was more like a brother than a cousin to me. Jason lived with us throughout the years a lot because his mom and dad were both alcoholics. I need to write about his life more. He is really so incredible. I have to tell you... I do not remember what I got for Christmas... But I remember what Shauri and Jason got! No doubt, I got a baby doll because I loved them so much. Shauri got a "Little People Farm and Airport" with Airplane that you pull the people in with the Yellow plastic string, remember that? The propeller would spin as you pulled it. Jason got Lincoln Logs. Those gifts were from Santa. I do remember stockings with my name on it. And I remember that every year, from that time I was three and all the years after, my sisters woke me up at 5 am telling me to come with them to see what Santa brought and I would tell them to let me sleep but If I did not come Shauri would get in my stocking and I hated that so I would have to wake up and get my stocking before she got into everything. Funny how we remember little things like that, huh? Well, That is the first Christmas I remember... I will post the pictures of Christmas I have:
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| This is the first Christmas I remember. I remember this dress because Darci has one just like it but it was Navy Blue. |
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