It's Christmas Eve!

 

Christmas Memories

• trying to find out where mom and dad hid the Christmas gifts
• Buying gifts for my family at the Christmas shop at school when I was little
• Sledding with my cousins at Cascades Park on the long toboggen
• getting special candy in our stockings
• Going to get the Christmas tree and arguing about who's turn it is to pick it out
• following dad through the brush at the Christmas tree farm and getting briars on my socks
• learning that I should not follow dad through briars
• getting up on Christmas morning too early and being sent back to bed
• being woken up on Christmas morning when I got old enough to appreciate sleep
• being in Christmas musicals and plays at church
• caroling at nursing homes
• driving around looking at lights, listening to Amy Grant 
• eating gingerbread man ice cream sandwiches on Christmas Eve
• chaos while opening presents at Grandma and Grandpas