Day 325
Merry Christmas! We woke up to … SNOW! Right after I wrote that the odds were slim to none for getting any white accumulation on Christmas … Mother Nature proved me wrong, yet again!
But, I’m happy to be in error as it looks like a giant powder sugar sifter swept over the area … as we just got a dusting and it was just enough to cover the mud and the browning grasses and transform our hamlet into a winter wonderland.
Santa comes tomorrow … actually, Santa came last night but we are waiting until tomorrow to open gifts. Sam arrived today and it feels so good to have her and Ted here. The energy in the house is different. The whole place feels more alive. It’s wonderful.
Christmas … a zillion years ago when I was little Santa brought me a pink cardboard kitchen set. I loved that thing and for years I played with it in my pretend house in the back of our basement. It housed my rosebud china and fake plastic food. There is a picture of my dad putting it together … all 300 pieces of it laid out on the basement floor with him trying to find tab A201-G that would go into slot A201-G. It must have been a nightmare to assemble.
When Ted was little Santa brought a TMNT (Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtle) Technodrome (aka: house). I think the box had printed on it … Assembly that even a child can do.
Yeah, if Einstein was available and a child at that time he could have put it together. It took three adults five hours to try to figure out how to piece together that thing! The Chinese directions were of little help!
Oh, what you remember!
When I was 4 Santa brought me a large pink stuffed elephant. I could sit on him he was so big. When I was 6 Santa brought me Heda Get Betta … a doll that had three faces (sleeping, awake, with measles – hence the “get betta” part of her name). I LOVED that doll. When I was 10 I got a pink stuffed hippo … he could fit into a regular sized shoe box and was soft and plushy … I loved him, too. And somewhere in there I got a Tressy doll … a cousin of Barbie’s (or something like that). She had a button on her stomach that you pressed and a long pony tail of hair came out of the top of her head. There was a key hole in her back and when the key was inserted and turned, her hair would go short again! She came with brushes and curlers … Fabulous!
Every year I got a Lifesaver book … that was when there were 10 rolls of Lifesavers in it and each roll was a different flavor AND there were clove lifesavers – my all time favorite. I also got a book … some Judy Bolton or Nancy Drew mystery. I couldn’t wait for bedtime!
Our trees were always fat pines with large colored lights plunked down in the middle of the front windows in the living room. From the age of 7 on I wore glasses … so, at Christmas I’d stand at the end of the room and take off my glasses and look at the tree … and the bulbs appeared as giant colored starry blobs. It was fantastically beautiful.
So, one more day of Christmas … I can hardly wait to see what Santa has brought. I just hope I don’t have to assemble anything!