All I want for Christmas...
This year I had my animal loving Madi (age 5) tell me her Christmas list. This is what she came up with:
Dog
Cat
Mustang (horse not car!)
Dolphin
Real Live Mermaid
Meerkat
Then later we typed out a Christmas list she dictated to me to e-mail Santa - she wanted:
a horse farm
a cow farm
a sheep farm
a dog farm
a cat farm
an everything farm
These gift items are sure going to be hard to wrap!! Whew!
Made me think about gifts I received growing up. Hands down my favourite gift as a child was my Cabbage Patch kid. That was the year they were huge and my parents had explained that there was no way they could get one for me - so I was prepared not to get one. Christmas Eve my mom got a call from a co-worker that she had two as one she had ordered just came in - and offered my mom one! I screamed on Christmas morning and LOVED my Cabby ever since! We went everywhere together. I still have her (to Mark's disgust).
Another favourite childhood Christmas gift was the ugly Ken doll. I should explain - it was not my favourite toy - I hated this thing because it was so ugly! - but somehow my Grandma and I got this tradition of trying to give it to the other person without them recognizing what it was. Great big boxes wrapped up - with this hideous
doll inside. It was a second hand doll with wild matted hair and I remember he was wearing a "mumu" that was crocheted. Don't know where he ended up - but it would be fun to give him to my Grandma again!
Another memorable Christmas was in high school (or was it college?) when I finally got my own ski equipment. As the youngest child I always got hand me downs from my sister and brother for equipment. So excited we went skiing just a couple days after Christmas - and the roof rack came off the car (on the Skyway bridge!) and our skis were destroyed!! Even though we had just left home we went on to Blue Mtn anyways and rented - we knew if we went home we'd just vent about what had happened - so we just rented and had a great time anyways!
And one year I sang the song "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas" so much that Mark bought me a hippo chia pet! Very fun!
What gifts do you remember most vividly - giving or receiving?
Dog
Cat
Mustang (horse not car!)
Dolphin
Real Live Mermaid
Meerkat
Then later we typed out a Christmas list she dictated to me to e-mail Santa - she wanted:
a horse farm
a cow farm
a sheep farm
a dog farm
a cat farm
an everything farm
These gift items are sure going to be hard to wrap!! Whew!
Made me think about gifts I received growing up. Hands down my favourite gift as a child was my Cabbage Patch kid. That was the year they were huge and my parents had explained that there was no way they could get one for me - so I was prepared not to get one. Christmas Eve my mom got a call from a co-worker that she had two as one she had ordered just came in - and offered my mom one! I screamed on Christmas morning and LOVED my Cabby ever since! We went everywhere together. I still have her (to Mark's disgust).
Another favourite childhood Christmas gift was the ugly Ken doll. I should explain - it was not my favourite toy - I hated this thing because it was so ugly! - but somehow my Grandma and I got this tradition of trying to give it to the other person without them recognizing what it was. Great big boxes wrapped up - with this hideous
doll inside. It was a second hand doll with wild matted hair and I remember he was wearing a "mumu" that was crocheted. Don't know where he ended up - but it would be fun to give him to my Grandma again!
Another memorable Christmas was in high school (or was it college?) when I finally got my own ski equipment. As the youngest child I always got hand me downs from my sister and brother for equipment. So excited we went skiing just a couple days after Christmas - and the roof rack came off the car (on the Skyway bridge!) and our skis were destroyed!! Even though we had just left home we went on to Blue Mtn anyways and rented - we knew if we went home we'd just vent about what had happened - so we just rented and had a great time anyways!
And one year I sang the song "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas" so much that Mark bought me a hippo chia pet! Very fun!
What gifts do you remember most vividly - giving or receiving?
Labels: just for fun
posted by Krista Jefferson Photography at
7:20 PM
2 Comments:
oh I LOVED my cabbage patch kid too and I still have her too! Doug thinks I'm lame for keeping her but hey, he just can't understand!
Hi Krista! I'm a friend of Sandra's, and an avid reader of your blog! My favourite Christmas gift that I gave last year to both sets of grandparents was a 'memory' book of all the funny things my kids ever said, put together in scrapbook format. It was awesome! Definitely a coffee table item that they proudly display! Merry Christmas!
Christa
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