So here are some of the things that I treasured as I grew up:
- Choosing what we'd have for dinner on my birthday (usually spaghetti with meat sauce).
- Using the fine china (but the wheat set, never the gold-rimmed set) and the good glasses for special meals.
- Crackers and dip on the reindeer plate.
- Attending Christmas Eve church services.
- Trying to "catch" Santa by tracking the apples we left for his reindeer, while by parents ever upped the ante with footprints from the fireplace, etc.
- Opening stockings and Christmas presents one at a time to really appreciate each gift.
- The Creche set my grandmother made... and moving the Wise Men as Epiphany grew closer.
- Renting a house by a lake for a week in the summer. Swimming all day.
- Playing board games together.
- Sunday night dinners by the fire in the Storey Ave. house followed by popcorn served in wooden bowls.
- Getting up really early for Easter Egg hunts. So early that we had plenty of time to get ready before the 8 am church service.
- Giving my dad all the black jellybeans (he was the only one who liked them).
- The speckled eggs that tasted like malted milk balls from my grandmother.
- Growing up in the '80s in a house that had been in the family since the '40s.
- Hearing two details of my boys' day every night at dinner.
- Taking turns choosing songs when we ride in the car together.
- Halloween parties.
- Choosing and decorating our Christmas tree together.
- Holidays at my sisters'.
- Our poker competitions (with a trophy for the winner).
- Monopoly marathons in PA.
- The perfect foursome for golf.
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