Re: Childhood holiday memories

From: kathycarp (kathycarp_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:29:33 -0800

LOL!
My husband was famous for telling as a child. One father's day he and his
siblings got the obligatory tie for their dad. He was instructed and
admonished over and over to NOT tell what it was.

The minute his dad came into the room he yelled, "Here's your present, and
it's not a tie!" 

-- 
Kathy
www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol
"djgordon" <danigordon@bellsouth.net> wrote in message 
news:R2Cxd.8851$3X5.6174@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
> LOL sounds like my dad, although he did it a little more sneakily. He took
> whichever of us girls was the youngest (read dumbest) at the time, and 
> would
> take out something like maybe a Sears catalog, sit us on his lap and start
> going page by page until he saw our faces close up or we started acting
> funny and would know every gift beforehand. Of course, my little sister 
> was
> the best...she would take him to the page, and say we didn't get you that.
>
> Dani
>
> "Judity01" <judity01@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20041220094729.06084.00001274@mb-m19.aol.com...
>> ((My mother, in an effort to get us to stop shaking and guessing over
>> presents, decided to number the presents. ))
>>
>> I have to say that Mum was the worst in our family for shaking presents
>> beforehand.  All of us would wrap our gifts then store them in the large
>> walk-in dining room closet until Christmas Eve when they were brought out
> and
>> put under the tree.  I can't count the number of times I'd spot Mum in
> there
>> shaking a box or two or even sniffing them since we all loved to give her
>> perfume.  The year Dad gave her a huge box of various Evening in Paris
>> toiletries, she almost sniffed out all the fragrance through the wrapping
> paper
>> before Christmas morning.
>>
>> It was rather fun to open that door and see those packages.  Now be
> truthful,
>> all of you.  Could you really resist shaking a package with your name on
> the
>> tag?
>>
>> Judity
>>
>>
>
>

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