Just Remembering
December 24, 2007 | Nostalgia
The House is silent now, at 21:22 AM on Monday Morning (Christmas Evening just beginning). I have just finished making the expected cornbread dressing and cleaning up with Maria’s help. She got out her air mattress, and I went to get sheets and found two pairs of pajamas and a shirt that I had stashed away for somebody for Christmas and couldn’t remember anything about it. She pounced on one pair. She’s diddling in the kitchen, and I’m in here. I was in the livingroom, checking out the old Christmas ornaments,and who to give them to. First come first serve. Buddy should have his by now. Maria chose the twin to Buddy’s. Carmen gets the little blue velvet clock. The little green mouse is unclaimed. It was bought in 1968, along with the grandfather clock, but I’m giving that one to Tony. He’s coming Wednesday. He was six months old, crawling around on the floors of that small, matchbox house that we lived in on Jefferson Avenue.
The ornament that I made in relief society is about 32 years old and in mint condition. I took it to Enrichment Meeting the other night, and pulled it out, and showed it to the sisters seated at my table, and they expressed a yawning interest, until I told them that it was thirty-two years old, and then it was “WOW.” I’m thinking Lainie will like that one. She will have been about twelve years old at the time. There’s an old clown and a tiny, stuffed stocking that are at least twenty years old in pretty good condition still. Otherwise, there are various works of this and that and that and this. fhings that have come, served their time,and vanished forever. Has anyone seen the last of the pretty little candy candy canes. They should have made it for at least three Christmases. Nope.
Past history, before they evengot to be history
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