Your Mac Life Christmas!
It's December and that means it's time for the Holiday Season - or, more accurately, *shopping* for the Holiday Season.
In the Sprit of Christmas (or Capitalism), we want to know about your Holidays - did (or do) you have any particular Holiday Traditions? A certain kind of food you ate or eat? How about Your Christmas Tree - when did you put it up/take it down? Lights? Wreaths?
What was the best/worse present you ever got/gave? What do you most love/hate about the Holidays? What do you plan on giving this year to that Special Someone? What would you most like to receive?
All this month, we'll be taking your thoughts on the Holidays. Send us email to onair at yourmaclifeshow.com with "Christmas" as the Subject Line and we'll read your emails on the air each Wednesday evening.
Happy Holidays!
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Tradition and Gift
Our main family traditions actually fall on Christmas Eve. Ever since I can remember, my family has had Christmas Eve dinner together. From my youth until she passed away, at my grandmother's and now my mother's. It is one of the few times during the year that we all make the effort to be together. For our own family, my wife started the tradition of having us all get new pajamas. We unwrap them, put them on and take a family picture. Unfortunately, with our children and grandchildren needing to be so many places with other family, this one may take a hit this year.
The best gift I ever received I didn't appreciate at the time. I no longer have the gift or even a picture of it, but it means as much to me still as any gift I have ever received. In 1966 I was 7 years old and the Batman TV show was the rage. What I wanted and asked Santa for was a Batman utility belt and a cape and cowl. I received those (the cape and cowl made by my mother), but those aren't the gifts that I remember fondly. On the middle of the floor of our family room that Christmas morning was a HO scale train set. Not just train and track, but a mountain which the track round ran around and through. My father had spent a lot of nights building this mountain train set. I was so excited about the Batman stuff I pretty much ignored the train and mountain for weeks. I came to really enjoy the train though. My father spent hours with me running the train. Still I did not appreciate it then as much as I do now. 3 years later, my father passed away. That train and mountain became the symbol of my father's love for me. After many years of use and then non-use the mountain was torn apart, the track removed. But I still have the train even though it hasn't run for many years. It is still for me that symbol of my father.