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Greetings, Bloggy Commuters!

It's Wednesday already - how does that happen so fast?

Happy Birthday to Katya today! Have a fun day!

This vintage photo is of my older sister's first Christmas. I wasn't born yet, otherwise I'd be in it too.

I never put tinsel on my tree, but it is a great memory from childhood - carefully PLACING each strand of tinsel on the selected branch - or getting bored with that process and strewing it in clumps like Johnny Appleseed. (Johnny Tinselseed?)

Also - how perfect tinsel looked in the package when it was new, but would get all wrinkled and manhandled by all of us kids en route to the tree. The tinsel in this picture looks like it's seen better days...

So - what do we have under the tree? Any good stuff? Pretty traditional gifts - a doll, a stuffed animal, tool box for Dad, a tie and a shirt (what else does anyone GET for Dad anyway?).

My mother used to pin notes to us from Santa Claus on our stockings. We loved it! We never in a million years would have thought to check her handwriting! Kids nowadays would figure it out I'll bet, and the pins would be a safety issue...

Gifts from Santa Claus in our house were never wrapped - that's how you knew they were from Santa!

What was IN the stockings? An orange in the toe, always. Mixed nuts in the shell. Candy, and if you were lucky some of those chocolate coins - I still love those. And of course a candy cane! The stockings you could empty early before Mom and Dad were up!

Well, it's time for me to run along... I'll be talking more about Christmas as the days go by. TTFN and have a nice Wednesday!