It’s December 24, Christmas Eve. I realize some people don’t celebrate Christmas but I do so to me it’s Christmas Eve. I’m sitting here in my office remembering back to when I was a little girl. If my parents could afford it, I would get a new doll for Christmas along with some apples, oranges and different kinds of nuts. Christmas was simple back then. Not like it is today.
My mom and I would go into the woods and chop down a Christmas Tree, drag it home and decorate it with decorations we had made. We didn’t have all the fancy store-bought decorations. We made paper-loop garlands, popped popcorn and made popcorn garlands. We even died some with food coloring.
Yet, with so little, we were happy.
Today, kids have to have a lot more than one toy. That’s unheard of in this day and time. No, kids get so much stuff on Christmas morning they don’t know which package to open first. On top of that, a whole lot of kids have no idea why Christmas is even celebrated.
I like the simple times I grew up in. Wish we could go back there. Do you?
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