Best or First Holiday Memory

NineTwentyOhEight · December 2011

What is either your best holiday moment/memory or your very first holiday memory? Can be any holiday but I figured most people are in the Christma-nukkah mood :-)

abvernon · December 2011

I remember getting a cabbage patch kid doll. I think I was 6 or 7.

NineTwentyOhEight · December 2011

I think my earliest memory is from when I was super little - maybe four or five? Before I started going to Hebrew school we used to also have a Christmas tree (my mom converted to Judaism when I was 10 or so, my dad was born and raised Jewish and they decided to raise me Jewish)...I remember waking up and finding presents under the tree - I remember getting this computer-like thing - it played educational games and stuff. I loved that thing. It was blue and you put these different cartridges in to play games that taught spelling, reading, math/counting.

I think my first Christmas with K was one of my best Christmas memories. It was way better than the year he got me the heart rate monitor. Was that last year? Or the year before? I can't even remember...I think it was last year.

xojo1 · December 2011

Most of my holiday centered memories are Christmas. My earliest is just being sick every year when little. I am allergic to evergreen trees and shrubbery and we always had a real tree. We figured that one out when I was 17. We always got the tree two weeks before Christmas, so by Christmas day I'd have a raging sinus infection and feel super awful.

My best holiday memory is probably all of our Friendsgivings. Even though we don't do it on Thanksgiving, I always have the best time. I also really loved Christmases and Thanksgivings at my mom's parents' when younger because we had lots of cousins to play with and we stayed for 5 or 6 hours. So much fun.

SugarhillHnA · December 2011

One year I got so mad at my parents as my BFF and i were in gymnastics and we had a mat we used to practice on in my parents basement. Well, they wouldn't let us down there for the longest time and it ticked me off as they always had some lame excuse like the just cleaned the floor up after our dog and it was drying. On Christmas morning that year my parents sent my brother and I on this huge scavenger hunt through our whole house. They wrote clues out for both of us to follow separately and each clue led us to a new one and the final prize being our big Christmas gift that year. Well, the final clue led us right to where my gymnastic mats were...and we found out that our parents had bought us water beds for Christmas. My parents had a water bed for the longest time and we'd always snuggle in with them on weekends or if we were sick. They had gone to get them on clearance at some furniture store and the only place they had to store the boxes where we wouldn't find them was where my gymnastics area was in the basement!! Pete and I were ecstatic. I had my water bed until I was 18 and moved out.

mainezilla · December 2011

Hmmm i have so many good memories.. My sister and I used to have fake little trees in our bedrooms, Santa would always leave a gift there for us. We got our cabbage patch dolls under our little trees. Or the year we came downstairs to barbies dream house, corvette, Ferrari and a ton of Barbie stuff. So fun. My dad has always gotten me an ornament every year of my life. I love opening them all and remembering the years I got them. It's my favorite gift every year. They usually correspond to something I was interested in or liked.

jenndawnp · December 2011

My have holiday memory is the year we got sleds and new bikes for Christmas. We always open our gifts on Christmas Eve and have a snack/junk food night. When we were little we would go to bed early, my mom and dad would put out our Santa gifts and stockings. Then when everything was ready my dad would run through the house making a ton of noise and pretend he was chasing him and yell I almost got him this year. Scott and I would run down stairs and get so excited. I'm literally tearing up about this right now, my mom and dad were awesome. They always made sure we had great Christmas memories.

Kasi80 · December 2011

The first Christmas that I can remember was when I was 7. My baby sister was born on Christmas Day and we had to wait to open all of our presents except one. I got a Teddy Ruxpin. I remember taking it to the hospital with me to see my new sister. That year was probably the best Christmas we had. My mom was working three jobs and we actually had money that year so she was able to buy us lots of presents like She-ra action figures.

cookiemonster03 · December 2011

I distinctly remember returning from Texas (I must have been 3 or so) and my dad refusing to put together my new kitchen that night. Who gives a 3 yo a kitchen in a box? lol. I was SO angry.

My best memory is the year we ALMOST caught Santa in our house. Santa visited us on Christmas Eve, and tended to come right as my dad, brother, grandparents and I pulled into the driveway (we would go pick up my grandparents and bring them over). The year I was six, the lights were flashing all over the house and I heard him say Ho Ho Ho as I ran into the living room. Of course by the time I got there the lights were back on and he was gone.

marytini · December 2011

Earliest- I vaguely remember standing in front of the tree one year telling it what I wanted for Christmas. Like I was making my Christmas wish or something. I was probably 4ish or so.

There was also the year sis and I got up early and went to sit by the tree. She stood up afterwards and was covered in reindeer poop. Actually, it was dried cow poop that my parents put there to make us think the reindeer did it (we lived in Montana, cow poop was abundant, and aparently not gross).

cookiemonster03 · December 2011

marytini:

There was also the year sis and I got up early and went to sit by the tree. She stood up afterwards and was covered in reindeer poop. Actually, it was dried cow poop that my parents put there to make us think the reindeer did it (we lived in Montana, cow poop was abundant, and aparently not gross).

hahahahahaha

PBJ63010 · December 2011

I love all of these stories.

One of my favorite and earliest Christmas memories is of all 3 of us kids sleeping in my brothers room setting up traps to catch Santa. We did it every year until I got married and moved out. (Not the setting of traps just staying in my brothers room.) Sissy and I would pile blankets in the floor and make a nest to sleep in. Mom would always read Twas the Night Before Christmas. It was so hard to sleep every Christmas Eve (when we were little because we were always so excited) that we would get up super early and have to sit in bed freaking out because my parents had a rule that we couldn't wake them before 6.

My other favorite part of Christmas was always brunch. This is the first year I will be missing it. We would open presents and then have Swedish pancakes and monkey bread for breakfast. I loved it!

Kendra Rose · December 2011

I have all sorts of little bits of memories from when I was little. Probably the most vivid early one is when I was 5 or 6 I remember decorating the whole house for Chirstmas (we decorated EVERY room) and my mom would play the Carpenter's Christmas album on cassete tape. Even now it's not Christmas unless I hear "Merry Christmas Darling"! And that year I remember going shopping with my dad to get something for my mom and we got it "wrapped" in a balloon! They put sparkles and stuff in it and hung the present inside the balloon. That year I also remember waking up Christmas morning and seeing my present from Santa - a Barbie camper van that was all set up in the living room. I was SO excited!

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