Hey Peggy that's funny about the Ginger Bread man, every Christmas and
Thanksgiving I'd want to know what part of the turkey I was eating and every
one would laugh because I always always said Oh I know I'm eating the
stomach.

Lelia


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy Kern" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: MOST MEMORABLE CHRISTMAS


> Well, let's see, the memories of Christmas that I have are as a little
> girl, when the whole family would come over on Christmas Eve.  My
> grandparents always came over with treats that my grandmother had
> baked.  My favorite was the gingerbread man, one for my twin brother and
> one for me.  I never quite knew hot to eat him though.  I felt bad eating
> his head first, because that would "kill" him, but I hated to torture him
> by eating the rest of the body first.  <lol>  And sometimes we'd all play
> games, like "sevens", where we'd start in a circle, each person saying a
> number, and if it got to your turn and you were at a number that either
had
> a 7 in it or was divisible by 7, you would clap instead of saying the
> number, and the number-saying would go back in the other direction.  It
got
> really interesting when we'd get up into the 70's, where you'd have two
> people just clapping back and forth.  <lol>  Finally my parents would send
> my brother and me to bed, and I'd find it hard to go to sleep, dreaming of
> the exciting presents under the tree, which were never quite as exciting
> when actually opened.  I remember the first Christmas after I finally
> understood the gospel and Christ's gift, during my teen years.  The memory
> that sticks out for me is singing "O Come All Ye Faithful", and getting to
> the part about "sing all ye citizens of heaven above".  Of course in the
> song it's referring to the angels, but having just understood what Jesus'
> death and resurrection did for me and the position it put me in in
relation
> to the Father, I heard it as me being a citizen of heaven above, and you
> bet I sang!  <smile>
>
> Peggy
>