Celebrate: Our Favorite Christmas Memories

Tuesday, December 23, 2008, by Leigh Anne & Sherra

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We have designated Tuesday as a day where we will have different women share “Moments & Memories” in their lives.

We plan to feature women from all walks of lives – it may be in the form of an interview or as a guest writer. The column on Tuesday will be centered around our word of the month. We’d love to feature you as a guest writer. Qualifications: No experience necessary…just be willing to share a great moment or memory with other women. Send us an email and we’ll schedule a date. Our guest writers do not necessarily have to have a website or a blog as we want iLashGirls to be a place where every woman has a voice!

We thought we’d share our very own holiday memories with you today…

Leigh Anne says…

Having grown up in the sixties and seventies a white flocked Christmas tree was not unusual. But one year my mother decided to be different and she had our tree flocked RED!

I grew up in Wisconsin so no holiday season was complete without LOTS of snow! A real highlight for us was when our dad would fill our backyard with water, creating an ice skating rink right in our own backyard! I’ll never forget the year he tried to save time and left the sprinkler on all night to fill the rink. The water froze as it fell and we had an incredibly bumpy rink!!

And of course, there was always the visit to see Santa every year. A few years he even made a house visit (a friend of my dad’s)!

Sherra says…

As a child, I never knew a Christmas without snow so it has been very different for my children to grow up in the south where snow might come once every few years! From 3rd grade to 7th grade, we lived in Michigan and that meant sledding, ice skating and even skiing. I remember the year we got a toboggan as a family gift and my mom and dad came out to test it out with us on a big hill behind our house. I wish I had pictures of that day–instead it is etched in my mind.

Side note: Michigan snow would get my vote for the best Midwest snow beating Indiana for sheer volume and Illinois because the bitter cold there makes it too hard to actually enjoy the snow. Only Midwesterners will know what I’m talking about.

My favorite indoor memories of Christmas are those of a house filled with piles of presents and my dad who truly loved to put his special holiday touches everywhere. You can see some of those touches in the few “vintage” pictures we have…check out the mirror decorated with stencils and a can of spray snow and the stellar card display behind our white flocked tree.

If you have these “retro” pictures from your childhood, what can you see in the background that brings you back to that time and place? I still remember that Tiny Tears doll I’m holding back in Indiana…