Don't you wish you could bring back that special Christmas feeling that you experienced as a child?

Question

You know, Thanksgiving is past, December rolls around, the snow starts falling and piling up, you're starting to hear Christmas songs on the radio, the hardware store has stocked shelves with shiny new toys, and decorations are starting to show up all around town. In school, you and your classmates are cutting wreaths and santa claus silhouettes from colored paper then taping them to the windows, and you're all gearing up for the big christmas program. The program that's almost identical from year to year. Did you ever get to be a shepherd or a wiseman or Mary? Best of all, Christmas vacation will soon be here: sledding, ice-skating, rolling in the snow, hitching car bumpers - oops forget that last one. What do you think?

Answer 1

Yes, I do indeed wish I could bring back that special Christmas feeling that I experienced as a child. Where did it go? I haven't had that feeling since I was a youngster. What wonderfully warm memories of decorating the classroom as the Christmas holiday fast approached. I remember how much fun I had making a special Christmas card for my parents each year & watching the smiles on their faces when I handed it to them Christmas morning, busting with pride that I'd made that card all by myself. The Christmas plays were so exciting, even though I never had part in them. (too shy) I couldn't wait for Christmas vacation to arrive. It seemed to last forever, didn't it? Thanks so much for sharing your memories & for allowing me to share mine. ~Happy Holidays~

Answer 2

Yes I do wish I could bring it back !!!! That was when Christmas was Christmas. Don't forget getting ready for the Christmas pageant at Church. Practicing that one little line over and over. Getting up in front of everyone and getting a big case of the giggles. Singing Christmas Hymns in the Church choir ( I got the giggles doing that too.) Santa came and gave everyone an orange, some hard candy, candy can and those awful creme filled Bon Bons covered in chocolate !!!! Making several decorations for the tree at school and taking them home for our own tree !!!! Exchanging gifts. I always wanted a book of life savers but got jacks or a jump rope !!! ... lol Santa would put our tree up on Christmas Eve and enjoy cookies that Mom spent days making along with fudge, gingerbread_men and applesauce or fruitcake !!!! It was an exiting time and I miss that so much !!!! Thanks for the memories !!!!

Answer 3

I envy the younger seniors that still have little grandchildren
to watch unwrap presents. A few years ago, I dropped in to
a friends house, and she had two of her children there and
their children and better halfs. And we stuck around to watch
the little ones unwrap their gifts, and it was the highlight of
our Christmas Eve. The best in a very long time. The shreeks
and the laughs and the excitement that filled that room. I was
laughing like a kid again myself. And I turned to my husband,
and I said, "the spirit of Christmas is in this room". Not in the
religious sense, but the happiness element. Being so full of
joy, it bursts out with gusto. From little kids that got so little,
and suddenly, here it was, Christmas Eve and they had
presents from their grandma to open. It brought tears as well
as laughter.
We went to our daughters' house after that and the mood
was so subdued. Both of our kids were tired and looked like
they were ready for bed. They hurried to get dinner on the
table. And then they ate fast, and twenty minutes later they
were ready to open gifts. Well that didn't take long LOL.
And I think we were there all of an hour and a half. And then
we got the hint, it was time to go. So we got home and
watched a movie to fill up our Christmas Eve. And it is the
same each year. Only because they want to control things and
not come to our house. So here we sit every holiday, with
just ourselves for companionship and only on Christmas Eve
for a little while, do they share themselves with us. Now is that fair?
I do remember in grade school using construction paper
and making things and adding glitter and gold stars and such.
And taping our little crafts to the wall in some design. And of
course we always made something for our moms to put
under the tree. I remember one year we used close pins
around a tin can that we covered in crepe paper and glued
on with the paste glue. Some kids used to eat that stuff. Lib-
rary paste, I guess it was really called. It had kind of a minty
taste. Or maybe not LOL. I didn't eat it, but I did have to taste
it to see what the fuss was all about, like everyone else. LOL.
As I recall after we decorated it, we put some planting soil in
and a seedling from an Evergreen fir tree. And we were
so thrilled, that one day that would be a real tree and we
could plant it in our yards. And that was a present to our
moms'. Oh we were so proud! Oh, to be a kid again.
I try to find the little kid in me every Christmas. But it does
get harder and harder. I'm glad I still have memories. Even
tho, I don't really have alot of special ones to look back upon.
But I can still remember my grandparents being a part of
my Christmases and my other grandma was often there too.
And their jovial faces come back so clear and distinct. And
I remember the earlier Christmas trees and the way they
used to be draped with rain/icicles and garland sometimes.
And ornaments of every color and shape. And there was
always a star on top with a tree bulb light in the center. Of
course that trend was discontinued, when rotation wheels
and blue colored balls were decorating white snow flocked
trees. Sometimes with glitter in it. And the wheel really reflected the glitter. Of course, we went through the aluminum
tree trend too, like so many others. But eventually, mom went
back to an all green tree, and changed to red balls, as I had
myself, being a young mom by then.
So I'll have my memories again this year. And that is not
all that bad. I'm just glad I still can remember alot of them. LOl.
The way I'm having senior moments, I'm worrying about the
day I can't remember past Christmases. LOL.

Answer 4

Yes I do, when Christmas started in Dec not October. When family came from distant towns and cities, seeing cousins, uncles and aunts that you hadn`t seen all year. When goodies were laid out to eat that were unaffordable most of the time. I miss the times when gifts were not the main reason for Christmas, we were lucky to get one each, nor for outdoing the neighbors in decorations, we had a tree in the parlor trimmed with blue lights and icicles and colorful glass balls and maybe a wreath on the door. The joy was in having family together and attending midnight church services together. Oh I yearn for those childhood days, not the commercial money grubbing, frantic gift buying, stressful overdone holidays of today.

Answer 5

That would be so awesome. I miss listening to Christmas music while my grandmother baked cookies, and shaking the boxes under the tree trying to figure out what I was getting. Getting all dressed up on Christmas Eve to have dinner with family. Christmas certainly is not the same. Yes, the church Christmas program, little corny speech I had to do every year, and got so nervous every year. Christmas was a magical time growing up, Memories. :-)

Answer 6

Yes, I sure do. Its so much different now that I actually have to buy all of these gifts.LOL. I know what you mean. I still get excited for the kids, but not like I used to when I was one myself. I prefered to think that there REALLY was a Santa and I would get so excited when alls that I saw left over from the cookies and milk that I left out, were just a few crumbs and I'd always look for Santa's lip prints on the glass.LOL. Now, I HAVE SANTA'S LIP PRINTS!!! Being grown up stinks!!!!!

Answer 7

Not only do I wish I could, I found out two years ago I could! I put up a tree and decorated it with all the ornaments gathered over the years, each ornament reminded me of someone or somewhere...it was wonderful, and the old "Christmas feeling" was there...yes, it was great. Peace and love, Phil

Answer 8

I love that feeling. I do get it every year. I remember the things that my Granny who raised me and my brother and sister did to give us a happy Christmas. We were poor. Granny always made sure we had Christmas. We were happy and we were loved. Now I make sure my family has happy times to think back on.

Answer 9

Actually, my fondest memories of Christmas are those with my children, particularly when they were small...but even now, they are all enfused with the old spirit and always make it special even when I'm being Bah Humbug!

I am so grateful I managed to make it special for them, because they have now made it special for me...and their children have that same awe in their eyes at the season and make my heart sing!

Answer 10

With all the snow we have so far it is starting to bring back those memories of having fun on our days off from school.