My Grandma (Mom's Mom) would come and stay with us- and bake. It seemed like the counter tops were full of cookies and treats for a month, getting ready for Christmas.
Russion tea cakes.
Buckeyes
fudge
divinity
sugar cookies
fruit cake
rum cake
nearly go into a sugar coma thinking about it.
🙂
My house
smells wonderful right now. My wife and daughter have been baking all afternoon. Cookies, fudge, fresh bread... YUM!!
Andy
My favorite Christmas story: It would have been about 1945, and I wanted a train set. This was shortly after the war, things were still scarce, and my folks didn’t have much money. They got me a wooden train of some sorts, and as I opened the package my little 5-year-old self said, “There’s no damn twacks.”
I remember it so well because they reminded me for years.
>“There’s no damn twacks.”
LOL!
> My favorite Christmas story: It would have been about 1945, and I wanted a train set. This was shortly after the war, things were still scarce, and my folks didn’t have much money. They got me a wooden train of some sorts, and as I opened the package my little 5-year-old self said, “There’s no damn twacks.”
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> I remember it so well because they reminded me for years.
I love trains!! Grandpa (Dad's Dad) loved them as well so I never had a shortage of a new train set about every year. I'm sure glad Grandpa never grew up. I think he just got the cool stuff for me so he play as well. And we did. He got me all kinds of neat stuff over the years. Erector sets, Hot Wheels tracks.. and then slot car stuff came out. If he was still with us today, I'd bet we would flying helicopters in the living room right now.
I'd wake my mom up EARLY so my cousins and I could open our gifts...Well, poor mom was usually so exhausted from staying up into the wee hours of the morning celebrating with my family that she'd always be cranky, grouchy, whiney, "Damn you Angel!!", etc... So, the family came up with a solution: Us kids all got to open 1 present at the stroke of Midnight. That would keep us busy until the wee hours of the morning, playing or doing whatever with that gift. Great solution, right?! WRONG!!!
While us kids were thrilled, there was still others to open, so naturally, we were up at 6 am, (even if we went to bed at 5:00AM), wanting to open the rest. Cranky mom and relatives were NOT pleased... My solution?? Let us open ALL of our presents on Christmas Eve! This way we stayed out of their hair and we also slept in! Worked like a charm and been doing it that way for 30+ years now. 😉 :angel:
A couple of years after the above potty mouth kid story, the teenager a few doors down, Jim Charnley, became more interested in girls and sold us his train set. It was one of the huge Lionel sets, and I do mean big cars and tracks. The cars and the light posts both took Christmas tree bulbs, that's how big the set was. I set it up in the attic and spent hours up there. The transformer was very old so it would get hot and smoke, and the tracks were joined by regular nails with the heads removed so there was a lot of maintenance, but I loved that set.
Wish I had that set now. Be worth a fortune.
