What was the best Christmas you can remember?

[murielm99]

9. I had books and puzzles.

I read the books to my brother. I don't recall titles. I had some girlie type presents, too, like a little ironing board and a washing machine. We had good Christmas candy that year, too. My dad knew what kind of candy to buy. My dad did the shopping and he was the one who knew how to throw a good Christmas. We were a churchgoing family. Of course we went to church on Christmas eve, and each got one of those great brown paper bags of candy. Those bags always had an orange, a candy cane, some nuts that needed to be cracked, like walnuts, and the most delicious chocolate cream candies in the world. I think those must have been Missouri Synod Lutheran chocolate candies. When we spent Christas in Minnesota with grandma, which happened every few years, we got the same brown paper bag filled with the same treats, including the chocolate candies with the white filling.

I was a fifties kid. We had very primitive television. No video games yet.