Here I sit on a sunny Monday
morning in a quiet house, trying to
remember Christmas long ago
when I was a child. One thing that
I know for sure it did not resemble
in the least the Christmas that our
grandchildren have this year.
My sisters and I hung up long,
brown cotton stockings along a
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chair-rail near our large black
wood burning stove in the kitchen.
We only lived in one of the 12
rooms in the farmhouse in winter
time. Although on Sunday the
round parlor stove was used, and
we were allowed to bring our
clothes downstairs and dress near
by. We wore heavy underwear
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that reached to our ankles.
My mother usually roasted one
of our free-range turkeys and
invited our grandparents for din
ner. My grandfather would always
ask me to get him the tail of the
turkey as that was his favorite
piece.
Our stockings usually con
tained an orange and some hard
candy. The tree in our front room
was a small cedar tree that my
father chopped from the same
meadow where we now live in our
log house. The short needles were
very prickly but we decorated it
with balls and paper chains which
we colored and then glued
together. The door was decorated
with a collapsible red paper bell
that had faded.
The highlight of the season was
not the one toy that I received but
rather the children’s program at
church. Would I remember my
piece and would my younger sis
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ters say their recitations? Some
did remember and some did not
When the program was over, we
marched down a back stairway
and got a big orange and a box of
chocolate candy. It was almost
impossible to keep the box shut as
we were driven home in our 1923
Overland car.
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Today our grandchildren dp
open box after box of gifts. Their
many toys are quickly scattered
everywhere. I think it would be
hard to appreciate such abun
dance. My parents did the best that
they could for their seven girls
during the depression and we
survived.
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