/nos/ - Nostalgia

>>399
My mom would have this really old key, and she would have us put it on the door on christmas eve (so santa could get in). We gave cheerios to the reindeer (spread them on the lawn), and we'd watch Christmas Vacation with my Dad.

>>399
My father left my brothers and my mother for this date.

>>403
I'm sorry to hear that anon, are you and your bros and mom still close around this time?

>>399
>ebolachan
now THAT's something old

>>405
I can't let the flame die out fam

putting up the tree each year with family while christmas music plays

Dear Livejournal,

For a long time we would go over to my Mother's mother's house for Christmas Eve, have dinner and open a few presents. This was mainly in my earlier childhood up until around the 5th or 6th grade.

After that we had Christmas Eve dinner at our own house. We would always get up to open presents at around 4 am and eat Hillshire sausage, crackers and cheese until around 8 then we would get ready to go to my dad's parents house and have Christmas lunch/dinner.

We did the latter until my grandfather died then we tried one more year but my grandmother couldn't do it anymore after that. The subsequent years we would have smaller get togethers at her house but she gradually lost her memory and now she's in a nursing home.

While I was in school we would always do "special" things too once the holiday started. One year we went to a Christmas light show, then another particularly memorable year we went to a planetarium and they had something about Christmas and Jesus. It was actually really good though.

We would almost always eat at the Outback after whatever we did.

>>429
Once my grandfather died my dad lost a lot of drive to do anything and ever since then my Christmases have been a depressing, horrible mess. This year was no doubt the worst.

I was very lucky to have a functional and good childhood. My family has gone to shit now and have been that way for a 5-6 years. We had to foreclose the house I grew up on and now we rent a little shithole in the sticks with no central heating. Parents don't work, sister lives here with her kids, barely a pot to piss in and I just know they aren't going to have the great Christmases I did.

That makes me sad. We'll never have as much money as we did growing up and their dad is a worthless shithead alcoholic who won't child support.

Bump.

>>401
Did the same thing, we'd use oatmeal for the reindeer

>>399
Used to go driving around to see the lights every year until "gas prices" suddenly became an issue.

chocolate oranges at the bottom of our stockings. cats sleeping under the christmas tree. taking off my glasses and looking at the lit-up christmas tree was like a instant, huge kaleidoscope due to my awful vision.

my mom didn't get a lot of things right but she really knew how to make holidays feel cozy and special.

>>429
>>430
Jesus Christ. I feel for you, kiddo. Try to keep a proper bond with your nieces and/or nehpews; it sounds like there aren't any good role models for them to look up to around, but you can at least be a good aunt for them.