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Blog Hop Question: What is your favorite holiday memory?
(This includes Hanukkah, Kwanza, Yule/Winter Solstice, Christmas, etc.)
My Memory: I can’t really choose a favorite holiday memory because I have been through many changes in my life. I loved celebrating with my son when he was small (there’s something special about sharing the holiday with children). I moved from Michigan to Alabama and celebrating without the cold weather and snow was a new experience to me. I moved to Florida alone and the holidays were spent at my two of my favorite hangouts. At Ms Newby’s, all of us with nowhere to go would bring a dish to pass around at the liquor store/bar and it was so much fun meeting new people. I also spent time at Schooners, usually going for a swim and sitting at the bar with dripping hair, a bathing suit, and numerous cocktails. Now, that’s my kind of Christmas. Now, I have Mr Wonderful and living in Florida, in my little piece of paradise. I love all the holiday decorations, especially the lights. I feel there can never be too many lights. Every year we make a trip to New Orleans for the Christmas decorations. What’s up for this year with whatever family can make it? No plans…yet.
What about you? Do you have a favorite holiday memory?
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My family were very big on Christmas with lots of presents, food and our favourite DVDs. Even as an adult I enjoyed it but when my mum died, my dad and I lost interest in it and now it’s pretty much like any other day. We don’t celebrate any of the holidays.
i’m sorry to hear that. it sounds like you had some wonderful times and i hope that is what you think about. i am lucky that my mother is still with us at 87. my father has been gone for some time now.
Christmas in Florida would be SO different from Michigan.
I just love that buoy tree.
for sure, but i love it. it still look funny to me, seeing all the decorations in a tropical place. i would still love to have a big palm trees with white sparkly lights.
Having many favorite holiday memories is a wonderful thing to have. 🙂
That buoy tree is awesome!
thanks. that’s my kind of christmas.
No, there can never be too many lights.
Thank you for participating in the blog hop!
it’s my pleasure elaine. i have enjoyed your books and gregory green. i’ll be hopping around
My hubby’s family lives in Mississippi and every other year we go down for Christmas and seeing all the decorations with no snow is so weird to me. (I live in Michigan.)
i am a michigander at heart. it is a lot different down here and it is still kinda weird to me too, but i love it
It took me a while to get used to a southern Christmas. Green instead of white. LOL My best memories are also with my son when he was little. The magic and wonder came rushing back.
i know. it is still kinda weird without snow, but we still get some cold and the bare naked trees. 🙂 kids add that something special with their wonder and delight
I think going to New Orleans would be exciting at Christmas. Like you I have lots of good memories but now I like low-key Christmas. For me it’s a time of Stay-cations and while I like having the immediate family up Christmas day, I look forward to when they go home and Mr. Barb, myself and the pups just veg. I remember our first year in our house we had our first boxer. We had everything under the tree a week in advance (no more) and when we came home from errands, our pup Cicero had opened all his presents – no one elses. We still smile about it years later.
many years ago i had a dobie that i would wrap presents for and put them under the tree. she could sniff them out every time. mr wonderful loves to cook dinner with all the fixings and other than new orleans prechristmas, we stay home. if someone comes over, great. if not, that’s great too
Those all sound like wonderful memories. I spent one Christmas in Key West and that was fun. We do the lights here around Tavares, Mount Dora area at Christmas.
oooo key west is on my bucket list!!!!!!!!!!!! that sounds like lots of fun. it’s only mr wonderful and i and we do drive around town looking for lights and taking pics
That is a unique tree. Fascinating. Celebrating Christmas in different areas sounds interesting. Merry Christmas.
i’m curious about what people do in different areas too. seems like there is one thing in common…decorating and celebrating
I am from South Jersey and have lived in Florida, Virginia and the midwest. Each has something wonderful to offer at the holidays, but I loved Philadelphia as a child…the store windows, the lights, ooh and New York and the tree and ice skating…wonderful!
i’ve been to new york for thanksgiving and the christmas decorations are wonderful
I left a comment about Philadelphia and New York, the store windows, the trees, lights, ice skating and I think the blog ate it.
it did, but i found it. LOL
That buoy tree is so fun! I love when people create Christmas tree displays using unexpected objects. The holidays have not been the same as they were when I was small. I feel like we used to have a season, and now Christmas is foisted upon us way too early. We used to do a neighborhood tour as well. A different Christmas party every night! That was when my whole family lived in Brooklyn. Now everyone is so spread out, but I do look forward to my daughter coming home, and our annual German Christmas feast.
yeah, times are changed, that’s for sure. i try to find the positives and i am not one of those people that puts christmas music on when there is a breath of cold air.
Nice photo.
I recently had my first tropical Christmas. It was different, but not bad.
I figure as long as people are celebrating what they want to with the people they want, it’s all good.
so true
That;s such a cool buoy tree – I’ve never seen anything quite like it. 🙂
me either. i keep meaning to go to the beach and make a snowman out of sand, but we usually at least write in the sand
As a fellow Michigander, I understand how different Christmas would be in the south. The best part of the holidays is celebrating with family and friends.
so true.
I love that buoy Xmas tree! Definitely says “New England.”
Christmas is definitely more fun with little kids (we’re in between again–our kids are grown, but not grown enough for grandkids yet). We contrive to enjoy ourselves as adult, too, though. Mostly by acting like kids 😀
that sounds like a good idea to me
I would say that Christmas and the 4th of July are tied even for favorite holiday memories. Celebrating all the holidys at my grandparents’ old house, the one they lived in when I was growing up, was such a magical place. It was just outside of town so I had the freedom to run and explore and ride my bike wherever. Holidays were extra special there and I miss them terribly. They’ve moved back to their hometown where they grew up and while I love holidays with the family all together, it is still different from the way it used to be.
guess it’s true when they say you can never go back. 🙁
The excitement of children is contagious, and they have the way of making the holidays extra special. I love going with my husband and daughter to look at all of the Christmas lights, and agree that you can never have too many!
lights, lights and more lights
A lifetime of memories! Thanks for sharing 🙂
thanks for dropping in ronel
The holidays were fun as a kid and they were fun with my kids. I don’t really get into them anymore. I think as a busy mom, it became something else that I had to do since my husband doesn’t cook and doesn’t shop. I just give the kids money and enjoy the day anymore 🙂
we don’t do the present things any more. my wonderful loves to cook. he does thanksgiving and christmas…the works…even if we go out of town. -)