A special eve coming up, today, no matter what your belief or not, imo. There is a sparkle of clarity in the air and the stars do seem brighter, at least here in Wyoming. Of course we are over one mile high, so that accounts for some of it.

My sister is a minister and was asking me what my favourite Christmas memories were from childhood, while she prepared her message for today.

I told her it was the Christmas Eve when I was about 4-5 years old. Something magical woke me in the night. I remember running into her and her twin sister's room to look out of their window, into the night sky. I would swear on a stack of Bibles/Korans/Torahs or even flapjacks, to this day, that I saw Santa in his sleigh, reindeer and all, flying across the cold, clear, and bright Wyoming sky!

Other favourite memories include my brother setting up his Lionel train set to go round the Christmas tree, setting up chairs, passing out tickets and punching them and acting as conductor, describing the exotic journeys he took us, his 4 younger sisters on. He had entire countries and civilisations which he had maps for and even issued stamps for *in-house* mail.

Harking back to the nostalgia thread, the other Christmas I remember really well was when my grandma came to spend the winter and we all got transistor radios with our very own earpiece for private listening to only AM stations, of course! I also got the biggest ever stuffed dog that year; just loved him!

Please share your fav. memories of whatever you might've celebrated this time of year.

Thanks,

kat