[faithfulfrank]

I thought it might be fun to ask.....in all of your years, (and some of us have had a few)....what was your most memorable holiday gift or Christmas memory? Perhaps a favorite tradition?

After enjoying 52 northern, cold, snowy Christmases, I look forward to starting making Florida Christmas memories......

Frank

Some toys I remember was the first Hot Wheels when it first came out, Matchbox cars, a Creepy Crawler thingmaker set, Flintstone building blocks, a bow and arrow set I remember breaking a garage window, etc, etc....

[The Great Fumar]

It definetly was my first Train.... Not an electric train , its a wagon train . Electricity had not been invented yet.....I still have it , which is one of the reasons I have such a big house......
Ah you think I'm joking , well going from the living room to the back lanai you pass a Howard Johnson's on the way....... Honest

windy fumar ...

[skyguy79]

When I was in the 6th grade I got a 120 base accordian from my parents and was thrilled to no end. Too bad I didn't have the talent to learn to play it well or I could have been another Lawrence Welk. A'wonerful... a'wonerful!

[ceejay]

My most memorable gift was not one that I received, but one that I gave.

A couple of weeks ago, I mailed my grandchildren a recordable book from Hallmark (The Night Before Christmas). It was an emotional recording because I haven't seen them in over 3 years and I miss them horribly.

My daughter-in-law called to tell me that my grandaughter has listened to it about 20 times already and that she absolutely loves it.

Come to think about it, that phone call was the most memorable Christmas gift I have ever received!

[swrinfla]

As a child, my most memorable gift was a pair of skis. My best friend and his family went skiing almost every weekend and I wanted to go with them!

As Fate would have it, the mountains (NH) had virtually no snow all winter, I outgrew the skis, the next winter my friend and his family had moved away. Never did use those skis; never did learn to ski, either.

As an adult, the most memorable was the Christmas when our first daughter was one week old. She slept through most of the morning's festivities, then yelled for "dinner" just as the family sat down for theirs!

I still kid her about that time. She's just had her 49th! So now I feel old and creaky!

SWR

[pauld315]

Received it 4 or 5 years ago from my son who was 21 or 22 at the time. He took a picture I had of my mother and father, my father's purple heart from WW II and the flag that was presented to me at my father's funeral and had them mounted them in a shadow box. I now have it hanging on a wall in my family room. I couldn't even speak when I opened it. The contents touched me greatly but the notion that my son had done that for me was overwhelming.

[natickdan]

I actually received my most memorable gift yesterday and it was from my wife. Back in the 50's my parents purchased a large Lionel train set from the 1940's era. For a whole host of reasons, they never set it up. After they passed away in the 80's I ended up with the set, but it needed too much work to get going and I did what my parents did and I boxed it away for many years.

My wife of 33 years new how much this train set meant to me (nostalgic reasons), so she had the trains professionally restored and bought a new transformer and track and when I walked in to the living room yesterday, my children had it set up and running right by the Christmas tree. For a brief moment, on this Christmas morning, I felt like a kid again....

[colleenj]

My most memorable gift was that of a large extended family. My father came from a family of 10 kids and when I was young all the aunts, uncles and cousins would get together and celebrate just before Christmas. There were so many of us that we had to use a church basement to have the celebration- everyone brought food and we ate at long tables that stretched the length of the basement. It was wonderful to grow up in a family filled with love and laughter- I was so blessed!!