What is your first memory of Christmas?
823523
On Christmas my brother woke me up around 5am. Since or parents said we couldn't get them up until 6am, we decided to go outside and play in the snow. We got so wrapped up in the exictement, we forgot to turn the alarm off...and our alarm is LOUD. We started screaming and ran off. Our parents thought it was a actual robbery until we came back 5 minutes later. Oops!
882178
I like to think back to the years when my family got together for Christmas dinner and there were a bunch of us to celebrate.  A lot of my family doesnt talk anymore so Christmas isnt as much fun.  Now I'm looking forward to having my own kids and my brother and cousins having kids so we can have a big family Christmas again.
318814
Christmas - The time we remember the greatest gift to mankind. JESUS CHRIST\nSAVIOUR\nLORD\nMASTER\nFRIEND\nBROTHER\nPARTNER IN MINISTRY ETC \nJust the BEST
930289
Usually before Christmas
400834
YES! My fav part was when ELF saw the Santa in the store mall and got in a fight because he said YOU ARE NOT THE REAL SANTA! HILARIOUS!
923952
Oh yeah.  I got a mail-order catalog in the mail the other week that really triggered some old memories and yearnings in me.  The Uncle Wiggly game...clackers (remember those glass balls on the string you would bang together?)...Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys.  Then my friend and I started remembering other things together...like rock candy...remember around Christmas when they would come out with the colored candy shapes on lollipop sticks?  Then we got to talking how it's a miracle we survived...we had no carseats, no bicycle helmet or kneepads.  No soft wood chips under our swing sets or jungle gyms...we had concrete!  Which reminds me...I wonder when is the last time kids played Spud or Mother May I?  Oh yeah...I miss those good ol' days!
6043
I would have to say christmas. Its always been a big holiday in my family. Sharing good times, eating good food, laughing, singing, opening presents, celebrating all that we have together and who we are :) Happy holidays!
922698
at home with the children and my dad. i haven't had Christmas with for 27 years as him and mum lost touch .so this well be brill .
887712
The holiday of Christmas began as a celebration to recognize the birth of Christ Jesus, the Son of the true God.
969490
After I graduated from high school, I moved to Florida to help my great-grandma who was quite ill.  Between my minimum wage job and her medications, we were dirt poor.  Presents were completely out of the question--even a traditional turkey dinner seemed out of our reach.\n\nAbout a week before Christmas, we received an unsigned Christmas card from Washington with $200 inside.  Neither of us knew anyone in Washington, and we didn't recognize the handwriting on the envelope.  We ended up having a lovely Christmas meal after all, and even a few gifts "under" the table top tree.  We were astonished and so touched that some mysterious benefactor had thought of us.  Grandma died the following March, and I was happy that the last Christmas of her long life was a good one.\n\nTo this day I have no clue who sent us that card, or why.  I'm still grateful, though, and I think of him/her/them every year.
837764
Eating traditional turkey dinner. Going around the neighborhood to watch the lights put up by house owners. Decorating my friend's Christmas Tree, as I live in an apartment, so no room for a BIG Christmas Tree. This year, it's my first time helping my church to decorate the santuary for Christmas. Other than that, not much, as my family doesn't celebrate Christmas. :-(
703977
I out-grew the present receiving in my teen years learning that it is better give then to receive. I don't look for presents and haven't for many years but yet I still receive presents from my children and also give to them. I retain the family tradition of giving presents to my grand-children but stop giving once they graduate from High School.\n  Christmas to me is my religious teaching that it is the birth of Christ, and that still remains my thoughts of the celebration, and other religions celebrate in their own ways.\n  So it is not just another day to me but the day we worship the birth of the Christ child.
706555
My favorite gift for Christmas was a Chocolate Bar from my grandfather one year. He did not have a lot of money & I didn't expect anything from him. But for him to buy a chocolate bar & wrap it meant so much to me. It was many yrs. ago but I still remember to this day how special that was. Its the thought not the gift.
774071
Im really excited about christmas, I love decorating the house and drinking mulled wine and listening to xmas songs.\nCant wait to see my kids faces on christmas day, I can never sleep on christmas eve, am like a kid!!
948214
Christmas My grandfather used to  say  was about being together so one year to help us understand what it was about  he and the rest of our adult family schemed a plan to show us what it was  to be at a family Christmas . There were no presents  we had a meager Christmas lunch in the yard\n( Christmas is hot  as it falls in the middle of summer in Australia) . \nall the kids and parents played games there was no TV or stereo my uncle John played a ukulele and we sang songs  we had treasure hunts for small boiled lollies  I cant remember laughing so much as we played  silly games like ringa round the Rosy tag  hide and seek  I saw the adults dressed as  they would have been as school kids in their day ,playing game like jacks  skipping ropes  I saw my Grandad in shorts and knee high socks  my Nan in  a pinafore and stockings  and my parents dressed like some thing out grease the movie .\nThey sang and danced  I had the best day  and at the end of the day we were given a gift  the boys a spinning top  the real kind that you rap a string about the top and fling to the ground . the girls  were given a knitting bag with needle and wool . \nYes It was a great day and as you can see i still reminisce over it . when we got home the presents were under the tree, and i ejoyed opening them  but I cried when I realised I lost that top     some time over the years .\nId like to say thank you to you and your little girl  for jogging a long lost memory that brought a tear to my eye even today  \nBless you both and MERRY CHRISTMAS.\nPs all my sisters and neices  knitt because of that gify  ,a simple gift of two sticks and wool can cloth you and keep you warm.
89890
Laying in the crib with my twin sister.  I was probably 2 years old but limited or no vocabulary.  I remember waking up - I may have had a nightmare - seeing her laying there next to me and having a great sense of contentedness.\n\nAlso when I was two, I remember getting stung by a bee and having my mom care for me.  She placed me in front of the television to watch Jetsons and waited on me with some tasty snacks.  I remember liking having her baby me.
141742
It was at a Christmas dance at my junior high school when I was 14. I was dancing with a girl I had a huge crush on, and someone held mistletoe over our heads. I softly touched her lips with mine and I melted into her. I thought my heart was going to explode!