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Elementary School Christmas concert. Had it at high school/middle school gym. At the end Santa would come and all the kids got an...

yes, and also i remember when grandparents talked about how they would get train cars of grapes for making wine sent from out west.

All my young life we had a navel orange in our stocking.

Those are great memories of your traditions. The citrus thing is because it was shipped north by train in the early winter. My...

Yeah -- but 70 yrs ago that wasn't so easy. 😁 And I was 10 then. The things we take for granted now! :old :lol:

oranges keep your vitamin C going in the winter. there was when i was a kid the idea of ordering a bushel of oranges or grapefruits...

Christmas at my maternal grands was helping decorate the tree. They'd cut one out of the woods. Decorations were some collected balls...

We would get up Christmas day and get our stockings. We weren't allowed to open presents until Dad got home. He worked nights much of...

One of my fav cookies that Mother used to make were North Dakota Rocks. The recipe used seeded muscat raisins. About 10 years ago, I...

Other memories... Christmas Eve - Church had candlelight service that we would attend, beautiful memory. Afterwards, we would drive...

My grandmother always made fruitcake cookies.... that's enough about that, lol. Mom and I made homemade chocolate covered mints. The...

Mom used to make the pecan thumbprint cookies, too. She said this year she isn't making them. Cutting all the cherries is too much for...

i'll always fondly remember my one aunt who made miniature pecan pies (i guess they would be called tarts even if they weren't tart at...

Grandfather Ehly, when they would visit us from Philly, would string a huge cowbell across the hallway. That way the 4 of us couldn't...

Just sitting here with coffee and memories this morning, curious if anyone would share traditions (treasured or not so treasured) from...