Christmas Memories

Most of my family is counting the days till Christmas, Me I am just remembering some of the dandy times I Have had over the years.
When my children were little there were so many memories it is hard to pick one out. A few that were so wild stick in my memory. One was the year we locked all the children in the bathroom ( with four little ones the lock was on the outside of the door!!!). Their father was on the roof making Santa sounds. I was so amused at the children gigling I missed the screams of help coming from the roof as their father fell off it. Well at least noone was hurt. Another time that I remember was when my childrens father and I had a wee bit too much to drink and we started to assemble four riding toys late Christmas Eve. That the children were able to ride the toys was truely one of the Christmas Miracles.
When the grandchildren came along we were so anxious to have Christmas in our house we had the first one in the unfinished house. One of my sons-in-law had everyone check their boxes to make sure we didn't have one of the little ones in them. One Christmas we took several of the grandchildren to see holiday lights in our community and as we went down the road our next to oldest grandson started to sing a beautiful sone he had learned at school for the Christmas program. When he was thru I asked him to sing it again but with his grandfather who sang in the church choir. Well he did and I would have given anything to have a recorder with us. It was so beautiful it brought happy tears to my eyes. When my dad spent one christmas with us our oldest grandson who had just learned to play the saxaphone asked could he play for his great-grandfather. We were all very anxious to hear him and he played Christmas tunes for about 30 minutes for his great-grandfather. Heaven help me that was a Hallmark moment if there ever was one.
One christmas I bought the four middle grandchildren p.j.'s for christmas , when it came time to go home they all went into a seperate room and came out in the new p.j.'s stating they were ready to spend the night . Of course their parents said" see ya in the morning" !!!!
I look forward to many more memories but am grateful for all the wonderful ones I have. To all my family both in-laws and out-laws, big and little MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.