Snowmen

The first Christmas we had in Shawnee I wanted to do something. I found a magazine article about a wooden snowman and my Dad cut one out for me and then and made one of me and our three children, We put them out about December 10 and put a couple of spotlights on them. Then we put lights on the house and a sign in front of the snowmen "Happy Holidays". We did not use Merry Christmas as we had many good Jewish friends and we thought it might irritate them. Later after we had two more children my brother in law, Roy, made the other two. Cindy's snowman was stolen once and we found it in the ditch up the street. Probably by her boyfriend. My children are still good about putting them up and making me feel it is Christmas. I have one granddaughter, Hayden, who even repainted them for me.