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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Favorite Holiday Memories
Since the boards have been a teensy bit slow lately...What are some of your favorite holiday memories?
Mine:
I had just reached the age where I was starting question the guy in the big red suit. It was Christmas Eve and my dad called me over to the window in the front of our house. He told me to look up in the night sky, and wouldn't you know, there was red light flying across the sky just like Rudolph! Sure, it was blinking and suspiciously at an altitude similiar to that that airplanes use, but we shouldn't look to hard the details. Magic existed for at least one more year. 
Re: Favorite Holiday Memories
I love that!
I didn't grow up with Christmas, so my memories only go back about 6 years with the ILs. My favorite was two years ago when my niece was three. It was the first year she got really excited about anything other than the crumpled wrapping paper. Nothing stands put in particular, but I think it's the first time I experienced the magic of Christmas through a child's eyes. It was really nice.
I guess I don't have a particular "memory" per se but I do have a favorite tradition. My mom always read my sisters and I Twas the Night Before Christmas before we'd go to sleep on Christmas Eve. I occasionally would go to Church with them for the late service and my Mom would make me go back to their house and sit through it before I went back home again.
I used to grouse about it a little bit but when I think back on my childhood holidays, it is the one thing that stands out above all the other things. My mom bought each of us a copy of the recordable ones last year and recorded herself reading it so that we can play it for our kids someday too which I thought was really cool.
This is a memory from when I was really little. My older cousin was in the living room at my grandparent's house. He started yelling my name and said, "Jenny! Santa is here! He is in the living room! Come quick!" So of course I went running. Turns out I JUST missed him going back up the Chimney!! SHOOT!
As an adult I love going to my aunt and uncle's farm in the middle of nowhere in northern Minnesota. It is DEAD SILENT out there and it's so peaceful to get all bundled up and go out and walk through the snow. I don't know that I could live in the country but I love it when I visit.
I also love love love love love the candlelight church service my family goes to on Christmas Eve. Singing Silent Night with everyone all glowy from the candle is amazing. I'm much less church-y these days (ok, not churchy at all) but I still treasure that time with my family on Christmas.