http://www.topchristmasgifts.org The ultimate Christmas gift ideas and unique Christmas gifts Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:58:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.topchristmasgifts.org/about-2/#comment-31 Santa Claus Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:28:23 +0000 http://www.topchristmasgifts.org/about-2/#comment-31 I love to read posts like this! Remembering Christmas is one of my favorite things to do I love to read posts like this!
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]]> http://www.topchristmasgifts.org/about-2/#comment-3 Sherry Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:08:07 +0000 http://www.topchristmasgifts.org/about-2/#comment-3 My favorite childhood Christmas gift was the year I got my record player, as they were called in those days. I don't really remember much about my childhood but I think I must have been around 10 or 12 years old and was beginning to become really interested in music, especially the rock and roll music played on the radio. I know this will sound very strange to a lot of people but even at that age, I still believed in Santa Claus but was beginning to have thoughts about Santa Claus being my parents. Santa Claus was so magical to me that I never wanted to give up believing in him. This one particular Christmas, I had asked Santa Claus for a record player and some records. This terminology is showing my age! I awoke that Christmas morning and there was my record player and some record albums! I know now that much sacrifice was in that gift, too. But as I was going through the record albums, I saw Paul Revere and the Raiders and some other groups who had recorded albums that I really wanted and liked, but I also noticed there were a couple of albums from the Big Band era and thought, "I didn't ask for these. Who are these bands?" Then I realized that this was the music that my mother and daddy listened to and enjoyed and I realized that Santa Claus was my parents. I never said anything to them about it for years and just kept pretending about Santa Claus for them. Now as I look back on all the Christmases we had, I realize that the magic of Christmas was kept alive by my parents and they were definitely my Santa Claus and I'm thankful for that. My favorite childhood Christmas gift was the year I got my record player, as they were called in those days. I don’t really remember much about my childhood but I think I must have been around 10 or 12 years old and was beginning to become really interested in music, especially the rock and roll music played on the radio. I know this will sound very strange to a lot of people but even at that age, I still believed in Santa Claus but was beginning to have thoughts about Santa Claus being my parents. Santa Claus was so magical to me that I never wanted to give up believing in him. This one particular Christmas, I had asked Santa Claus for a record player and some records. This terminology is showing my age! I awoke that Christmas morning and there was my record player and some record albums! I know now that much sacrifice was in that gift, too. But as I was going through the record albums, I saw Paul Revere and the Raiders and some other groups who had recorded albums that I really wanted and liked, but I also noticed there were a couple of albums from the Big Band era and thought, “I didn’t ask for these. Who are these bands?” Then I realized that this was the music that my mother and daddy listened to and enjoyed and I realized that Santa Claus was my parents. I never said anything to them about it for years and just kept pretending about Santa Claus for them. Now as I look back on all the Christmases we had, I realize that the magic of Christmas was kept alive by my parents and they were definitely my Santa Claus and I’m thankful for that.

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