Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What is your favourite childhood holiday (that's any holiday, folks) memory?

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New Years and Nan's... :D

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_magicsocks/]

I know this sounds corny but spending time with my parents. I would spend some of the day at my moms and her side of the family and then go to dads and do the same.

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

Oh you are KIDDING.

I don't have any happy childhood holiday memories, I promise you.

I didn't get to have those until after I was over 18.

[kay.livejournal.com]

Sinterklaas!

[daylight-broke.livejournal.com]

Christmas. So many happy memories. Hot apple cider. Hot cocoa with marshmallows. Santa Claus. Snow. Christmas carols. Watching Alistair Sim as Scrooge on TV. Ah, good times. :D What a great question you asked!

[hahaucntcme.livejournal.com]

4th of july. used to watch the fireworks with my friends and spent one year watching like 4 dif shows, two with dif friends and the rest just sitting outside the house the 5surrounding towns all rocked the whole state it felt like, was so awsome.

[hahaucntcme.livejournal.com]

not even one from when you were really little? a birthday maybe or last day of school? *they do count i know they do, lol*

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

No. All I wanted when I was a kid was to be as far away from my parents as possible.


I left on my 18th birthday and never went back.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

What about your earliest happy holiday memory?

*hugs*

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D Cool!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Cool! :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I do love Christmas :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful! :D

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

This year. Halloween. I was downtown, ALONE, with a camera.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

A good way to spend a day :D

[zen-kitty.livejournal.com]

This is going to sound a little saccharine, but it really is the truth.

My mom was a wonderfully festive and creative person and she made every holiday magical. The house was always decorated for each holiday and we had traditions at each holiday including special food and specific games and activities for each holiday.

I liked all of the holidays because it usually meant that the whole family was together, which was quite nice, but I think my favorite holidays were Halloween and Christmas. Those were the most festive for me as a child.

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

Word.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Sweet is good! :D

[kathyrene.livejournal.com]

Christmas in my house growing up was the best time of year - lots of baking, decorating, preparing, going out in the forest to choose a tree then dragging it home on a sled, christmas carolling, midnight mass and lots of gifts.

New Year's (or Jour de l'an) at Nan's was also good too. Lots of fiddles, dancing and beer! And more gifts!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Wonderful! :D

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

Any of the many christmas mornings that i woke up to my brothers singing "silent night" at the top of their lungs to get me to wake up. (i'm carrying one of them in my icon)

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[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Halloween.

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

My grandpa would always get a rabbit for Easter dinner and tell me it was the Easter Bunny. I knew it wasn't, because I knew he would never shoot the Easter Bunny and feed him to me. (My grandpa had a warped sense of humor!)

One Christmas, I want to say 1981 or '82, it was unseasonably warm. I got a new Indiana University sweatshirt for Christmas, and I got to wear it outside shooting hoops with my Dad.

[isis-lives.livejournal.com]

I love Thanksgiving, actually. I love today. My daughter is cooking and we're bringing our contributions of green bean casserole and apple pie. Would love to set a place at the table for you.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

Thanksgiving at Grandma Hunt's when we were kids. Best holiday ever, every year. :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO! :D

Awesome!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Always fun!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

:D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I wish I could be there!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! :D

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

That is part of the sadness....as all of us kids have grown up and married and moved, the entire family never gets together, except for funerals. There is too much competition from in-laws and vacations, so I am glad that those Thanksgivings happened. They have never happened since we were all kids. We keep trying to recreate such events, and today has been a very excellent step toward that...but it's not ever going to be the same without all 45+ cousins. :) We'd have to rent a building to seat the whole family now.

[o-annie-o.livejournal.com]

Christmas.
I don´t like Christmas so much anymore, all the stuff is out in the shops way too early and for many people it seems to be only about the presents, but as a kid I loved Christmas so much!
My brother and I would stay with my grandparents on Christmas Eve during the day and went back home in the evening then. Means when others were sitting in church we had a lovely walk through a park, that was always kind of the beginning of Christmas Eve. Back home was the first time we would see the Christmas tree then and first thing when entering the living room was standing there looking at it for minutes. I could have spent hours staring at it though I guess. The Christmas tree and the smell of it was the most important thing for me.
Well, and it was just wonderful to spend time with my parents, with family, playing the games we got for Christmas and so on... it was so peaceful, and for us not fake at all like it may be in other families.
Now, the only thing I´m looking forward to on Christmas is still the day I´ll spend with my family.

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd find that funny. ;-)

♥

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Christmas at Gramma B's. All 30 of us in that tiny house. Incredible food, enough smoke you couldn't see, the smell of cheap wine, and cousins forced to do a little play by an aunt to entertain gramma:) (I was old enough to refuse)

[hahaucntcme.livejournal.com]

glad you had a good one. a toast to more.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I've always preferred New Years to Christmas...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful!

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

Even though a lot of crap happened every holiday season a child should not be exposed to, I always loved Christmas at home with just my parents. As long as my father stayed sober, it was fun, and by the time he had too much to drink I was either busy playing with my toys, or already in bed. The next couple of days with the rest of the family, however, were a totally different story.

[legrandeval.livejournal.com]

Being brave enought to climb out on the basalt hexagons right out into the Atlantic at the Giant's Causeway when I was 4. Itfelt like I was staring out into the end of the world.