Calling All Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night Again –
Time For Some More Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) Today’s challenge is to share memories of December holiday gatherings and celebrations with your families (as a child, a young adult, a parent, a grandparent, a great-grandparent, an aunt or uncle, a nibling, a cousin, an in-law)!
Someone should have told me NOT to answer five of the questions last week! Thinking that Randy may likely use this same task next week, I’m going to expand on ONE question today.
Were there memorable gifts or surprises from your family’s holiday history?
During my childhood, there was one ‘gift’ that always appeared under my grandparents tree on the 24th: a dozen roses!
However, the gift was not a Christmas gift. Instead it was a gift by my grandfather to my grandmother in honor of their wedding anniversary. On their first anniversary, he gave her one red rose. On the succeeding years, he added a rose until reaching the dozen roses. After that, a dozen roses appeared in their house on Dec. 24th, their wedding anniversary.
In December 1969, my grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. That year, my grandmother gave my grandfather a wedding band. Since he worked on the railroad, he had not worn a wedding band prior to that time.
Those roses I’m sure meant a lot to your grandmother and a wedding band for your grandfather would have been perhaps even more meaningful. Christmas time would have been doubly special to them.
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