Another Christmas Eve
Another Christmas Eve…
( In Immokalee )
This Christmas Eve, Mama and Daddy both had to work late.
We wait in the car, my sister and I, for their work to end; getting
increasingly more antsy as time drags by!
We want to get home … get to bed - to sleep - so Santa can come!
Their work ends, at last!
As every child on Christmas Eve must eventually do,
we managed to subdue our excitement enough to,
finally, sleep!
We had left a snack of nuts and fruit for Santa,
as was our custom.
In Santa’s haste to get out quickly and quietly,
after dispersing his gifts,
he dropped a small bunch of the grapes on the back stoop!
I know this to be a fact because Daddy said so!
He found the grapes! :)
My Christmas doll of that year not only talked,
but recited the Lord’s Prayer,
word for word!
I was amazed!
Remembering…Nov ‘03
Note:
This was my little sis and me at that time~ ages 7 and 10.
...a little further on down the road of our life...
Christmas-Perrine
The Christmas I was twelve, my sister got a beautiful walking doll with shiny blond hair!
I got a red silky and ruffled party dress. Mom gave me my gift early. I needed it for a very
special event at school. It was for a school-boy/girl type - social...a Christmas Sock-Hop!
We all danced in our elaborately decorated socks in the school gym!
(something new and exciting, for me!)
So I had one less gift to open on Christmas morning. I did, however, get my first camera that Christmas!
This was my first Christmas of not getting a doll and probably my sister's last Christmas doll!
SO...a page turned...
I felt a sadness in leaving my childhood behind...
( Some might argue that I STILL haven't done that! )
:)
Just remembering...Dec. 2003
Love,
Junie
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