Good Old Days - Christmas

Tis the season-------with all the hustle and bustle. It bring back memories of Christmases from my past.

As I have mentioned before money in our house was not to be found, so when it came to decorating for the holidays one would find that most of the decorations were homemade. I would estimate that in my life time I have made miles and miles of the construction paper garland.........you know the one......where you cut strips of red and green construction paper and glue interlocking circles of alternating color together. Not only did we use this at home to decorate the tree but I also remember having to make the same garland in school to decorate the classroom.

We would also make decorations for the tree out of construction paper, glue and glitter. Mom would be cleaning up the glitter still in May.

My favorite decorations were the ones on the window. Mom would melt wax in a six department cupcake pan and then add different food coloring. She would cut out stencils out of wax paper and then with sponges we would hold the stencils on the windows and dab the wax on to make pictures. Course when you have kids doing the dabbing and they fail to hold the stencil still the outcome always looked like a blob of wax.......because that is what it was. But it was fun doing it and we had different colors of the blobs. Poor Mom had to scrap it off after the holidays.

The decorations were probably some of the worst looking ones on earth but the memories are some of the best.

In present day holidays I don't decorate at all ....... not even a tree.