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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Christmas Past (installment two) AND... Whooooo-Hoooooo!

Because I have achieved the ripe old age of 36 I have many "Christmas Past" memories... of course, whittling them down to the ones you would actually care to read about has been... well, actually pretty easy since I'm SURE nobody wants me to go into details about the year H covered my brand new coat in her Christmas Eve dinner!

Growing up we lived in a pretty basic house - I would ask you to close your eyes while I describe it but well... that may not work so well in this medium.  The kitchen and living room were at one end of the house - the 3 bedrooms were at the other end of the house - they were connected by a hallway which widened considerably at the bedroom/bathroom end since there were a bunch of doors all together.  (there was also a basement, but it doesn't figure into THIS story... maybe later!)  My father was a "project" guy... or maybe my mother was a "project" girl and wished my dad was the same... either way, there was a large piece of plywood propped up in the hall waiting to be used on a project and it'd been there for awhile awaiting its usefulness.  
Early Christmas Morning (and when I say Early I mean EARLY!) I woke up to sneak out to the living room...  I had to be really quiet because my parents' room was right next to mine.  So, out my door, past the clothes hamper and WHAM!  What?  Did I become disoriented in the dark?  Did I forget a turn in the house I've lived in for years?  Okay, back up - yep, that's my room - try again... straight 3 steps, there's the hamper, there's the wall and here's the hal... err, nope, no hall... just a big solid piece of Plywood!  Come Christmas Morning (not so early) the Plywood was gone... not just away from the Hall, but gone... out to the garage or down to the basement or somewhere - who cared, the way to the pile of presents was clear!

Dad denies this to this day - but I've called him on it now for the world to see!  Way to mess with the brain of your precious and impressionable daughter... did you ever think about the future therapy I'd need... hmmm... come to think of it I am REALLY bad with directions - could that be Dad's fault?  We won't even get STARTED on the fire hazard!!!



Oh, you're still here?  you wanted to know about the woooooo.hoooo part too?  Okay, well, all that hullaballoo yesterday over at SITS (my new favorite people) has paid off - I am a winner! Let me just point out that aside from Spelling Bees - I have only won 2 things in my lifetime... some carnival stuffie when I was a kid, and a canvas tote bag that had some Stamp Company's logo on it!  This is MUCH better!!!  They have many lovely sponsors, and lucky me came away with an initial necklace from Charming Gifts!!!  Now I just need to decide if I am selfish and keep this for myself, or am generous and use it as a Christmas gift....  I'll let you know when I finally get past Christmas Past and move on to Christmas Present!

13 comments:

Mamarazzi said...

congrats on your win!

Becky said...

What?! You better keep that for yourself, lucky lady!!

Anonymous said...

Congrats on winning! And it sounds like you were set-up Christmas morning!

Megz said...

Don't you have my name for Christmas? Besides, you already made yourself that lovely PINK necklace at Super Saturday.

Valerie said...

Congratulations on winning! Have a great day.

TisforTonya said...

hey Megz - I REALLY thought it looked red the first time I saw it!!! ummm, 'fraid we don't have you for awhile yet... I'll hold on to the pink necklace though until then ;)

Shauna said...

I'm new here! What a great blog :) ♥ Hugs!

LC said...

yeah, you better keep it. You WON it!!! How exciting.

Heather said...

congrats on winning! i never win anything, i would have loved to win...but maybe eventually! :)

i've been thinking about my past christmas' a lot too, as i head in to my first christmas as a newlywed. i'm trying to think of traditions and what is important for us to focus on...

Carla said...

Merry SITSmas to you and yours:)

Kristen said...

Plywood wall...good one. i have to tell my brother "king of sneaking at Christmas" about this because his kid are just like him :)
Congratulations on your win

mariann and Tory said...

Plywood wall? THat is the king of keeping your kids in their room! Wow! I don't think I would go that far!

Barbaloot said...

Brilliant. I LOVE this idea. I wish I had kids right now so I could utilize it!