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What are some of your favorite Christmas memories?

(12/2009) I only want positive answers. For the past few years Christmases for me have just felt so different . . . maybe it's because I'm getting older. I'll be 21 next spring. But what are your favorite childhood Christmas memories? Mine are me and my older sister waking up on Christmas morning and trying to get my parents out of bed. We would go to my Grandparents' house and all my aunts and uncles and little cousins would be there and we'd have a big breakfast and there would be a huge mountain of presents in the living room. At my grandma's, we used to bake cookies with my aunt and decorate the tree and sing carols. They had these musical lights on the tree, and on the porch door there was a Santa that would go "ho ho ho, Merry Christmas" and play Jingle Bells every time you opened the door, and there was a singing Santa holding a list that would sing "Santa Clause is coming to town" when you clapped. My dad used to be a fireman so at the fire station there would be a kids Christmas party and we'd get to see Santa Clause. And I used to get so excited when we would put up our tree. I would wait and wait for my dad to finally go down in the cellar and bring up all the boxes. Christmases just aren't the same anymore. Yeah we still bake cookies and watch the specials on TV and decorate, but at my house it's always me who does the tree, lights, and everything because no one in my family has time. At least I found singing lights at Walgreens and I try to keep that old spirit alive. It's just not the same anymore because both my Grandparents are dead and we're all older now and they moved out of their old house years ago. I guess out of all that I said my favorite memory would be Christmas at my Grandma's house. I'll never forget when I was 5 1/2, I got this one gift and I was so excited I was jumping up and down. My aunt videoed it, lol. Also on Christmas eve my Uncle would pretend Rudolph was outside and he would go outside with a red light and shine it in the window and all of us kids went nuts. Also in 2001 my aunt who lives in Florida surprised us on Christmas Eve by coming home. I came downstairs and there she was. At least most of my childhood Christmases with Grandma and Grandpa are forever preserved on video and I can watch them anytime. Christmas isn't all about presents I know. It's about our Lord Jesus Christ and being together as a family. I hope one day I become a dad and I can have the same Christmases all over again with my kids.

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1. Yes, that first waking up all excited about Christmas FINALLY being here. We'd go to our stockings and see what's in them (they were really big stockings, so had fruit, and toys, as well as candy), until Dad got up, and everyone arrived. Then presents. Then next door to grandparents' house where other relatives gathered. One uncle was the world's BEST joke-teller, and would have us all howling. It would take him 20 minutes to tell a single joke -- with us heckling him, and numerous breaks for laughing. Then to my mom's aunt's house. Again. lots of laughing (she was VERY funny, as is the rest of my family); sometimes singing. You know, I really don't remember any specific presents. I mostly think of us all sitting around laughing our @sses off.