Christmas

In the house I grew up in my mother did not like to waste beautiful paper wrapping gifts and thought brown sacks were good and ust write the name on the outside. We did not get fancy paper until my brother went with the girl he later married and she wrapped gifts so beautiful you almost did not want to open them. The gifts always had lovely useless things in them which I loved. The gifts in the brown sacks were from my parents and were things like new underwear and socks. At Christmas we had a chair by the tree and your gifts were laid on your chair. My chair was my desk chair. We were not disappointed for we thought that what every kid got. Later with our kids we let them pick a color and their gifts were wrapped in that color of tissue paper. You generally got a new doll and that was not wrapped and if you got a bike it was not wrapped. Mother did not like the tree to be up long and took it down immeditately. My in laws left the tree up until New Years. Except for the Christmas I dropped my china doll and broke her head it was all good. My sister, Helen laid her doll in the window one Christmas and it fell out when the screen got lose and ruined her new doll.
the package. I loved knitting Christmas socks for people and knitted over 2000. That is another story.