[BeautifulMousey]

was the Xmas My Bother Came home from the Army was a huge surprise to Us All

Just having him come home would have been a Christmas to remember. That's wonderful

 

[Judygal]

Christmas is always special to me, whether I am just share a quiet Christmas lunch with my husband, and then on to my brothers place to catch up with other relatives in a more casual meal using up leftover food from lunch time ( we all bring something to share). But last Christmas was extra special as we went to my much loved Son’s place and shared a beautiful lunch and afternoon with him and his wife, and our 4 beautiful grand children, who are all a blessing from God. And above all to me Christmas is all about celebrating the birth of Christ with those you love.

 

[Littleboy8]

Beautiful listening to the rain on a tin roof. Sounds like a bit of fun there.

Can just imagine the mess it made. Myself I am known for putting eggs on to cook for a salad and have forgotten them till they have exploded in a dry pot and have made a ruddy mess all over the kitchen. Weren't game to go in there till all the eggs had exploded. But that's me.

 

[Harro1948]

Christmas memories for me is back to my childhood (1950s) we would always go over to our Grandparents house in Greenford (Middx) and on Christmas morning the front room was off limits. We had woke up to stockings at bottom of bed. That keep us busy, till after breakfast. Then once we were all "washed and dressed" we would be allowed into front room. There main presents were handed out, and one year (I can't remember which one) I was given the present all boys of that era wanted a Train Set A Tri-ang one. My sister got a huge Dolls house, built by my Dad and Mum had helped with the decorating of same Dolls House. Always remember that Christmas.

 

[Gaena]

An old memory of my younger brother and I sitting in front of the lounge room window by the side of the Christmas tree, waiting for it to Snow, Northern England nearly always had a white Christmas then, Dad Made us go to bed as soon as the snow started falling as we were cold and shivering in front of the window but it was worth it to see those lovely white flakes falling making the whole world turn white in front of us.

 

[Viellarde]

I have had a lot of lovely messaged from a lot of people on here and I am very grateful. It is very heartbreaking. I had lunch with her that day and she seemed happy. Wa going to buy mate for her bird on the way home as she said her bird was depressed cause she was laying eggs that never hatched without a male. She did buy that mate on the way home and she texted me to say she bought the mate but said she was scared of him. Then discussed dinner with me. Asked what I was having the told me what she was cooking the boys for dinner. Her son and her partner. Next morning I got a phone call from another daughter saying. Mum Laura hung herself last night. They revived her but the doctors said they feared she had no brain activity and that they didn't think it was survivable. They had her on life support and a decision was made to donate her organs. Someone donated organs when my son needed new lungs but unfortunately a few weeks later his body rejected the lungs and he died before any more became available. The transplant team told us that her heart had been successfully transplanted as well a her left lung and both her kidneys went to two people who had been on dialysis for years. Anyway I hope those four people get to live a successful life.

She made a difference to several people who'll be thanking her for the rest of their life, especially when celebrating the birthdays they thought would not happen. Please take comfort in that.

 

[Reet]

The Christmas I remember best was not a happy one for me. My older sister had just got married so was spending Christmas with her husband's family. My mum was ill. I was 12 at the time and my brother was 14. My dad had always left everything in the kitchen to my mum so I found I was the one to cook Christmas Dinner that year. I managed quite well but my brother being a boy who thought at that time that girls were not good for anything, let alone cooking, refused to touch the dinner although I had spent what seemed like hours in preparing a proper turkey dinner with all the trimmings. At least my dad enjoyed our dinner and let me know he had. As you can imagine I did not like my brother at that time and could quite easily have killed him for not eating the dinner I had "slaved" over!

 

[Littleboy8]

The Christmas I remember best was not a happy one for me. My older sister had just got married so was spending Christmas with her husband's family. My mum was ill. I was 12 at the time and my brother was 14. My dad had always left everything in the kitchen to my mum so I found I was the one to cook Christmas Dinner that year. I managed quite well but my brother being a boy who thought at that time that girls were not good for anything, let alone cooking, refused to touch the dinner although I had spent what seemed like hours in preparing a proper turkey dinner with all the trimmings. At least my dad enjoyed our dinner and let me know he had. As you can imagine I did not like my brother at that time and could quite easily have killed him for not eating the dinner I had "slaved" over!

Wow my minds going crazy thinking of all the things I would have done to him

 

[Frog1958]

Woken after a late Christmas Eve by my two year old daughter playing with her drum playing battery-powered pink rabbit - a gift from Granma!!! So cute!

 

[Viellarde]

My grand-daughter, in her 20s, had a malignant tumour removed from her neck on Dec 23rd 2020. She had gone through all her medicals etc alone because Victoria was in Covid19 lock-down. Her parents were told they could visit her for 15mins in the hospital on Christmas day. Imagine our happiness when my son rang to say she was coming home with them. Her 2 younger brothers quickly cooked us a meal of spaghetti.
I promise I didn't break the speed limit getting there with cake and lots of fruit.
It was a good day. My beautiful girl is still spreading sunshine everywhere.

 

[Viellarde]

The Christmas I remember best was not a happy one for me. My older sister had just got married so was spending Christmas with her husband's family. My mum was ill. I was 12 at the time and my brother was 14. My dad had always left everything in the kitchen to my mum so I found I was the one to cook Christmas Dinner that year. I managed quite well but my brother being a boy who thought at that time that girls were not good for anything, let alone cooking, refused to touch the dinner although I had spent what seemed like hours in preparing a proper turkey dinner with all the trimmings. At least my dad enjoyed our dinner and let me know he had. As you can imagine I did not like my brother at that time and could quite easily have killed him for not eating the dinner I had "slaved" over!

At 14, I would have hidden all the food in the house and let him starve!

 

[zoeandsheba]

A white Christmas in the snow in Switzerland. Skiing, luge down hill at full speed and I was only 10 years old.
Miss the old country "White Christmas"

 

[deni67]

NOT FOR THE COMPETITION*

Every Christmas eve since my son was around 3 and my daughter was around 4 months old I would take him out the front to look at the sky, as soon as we saw a shooting star, which didn't take long, I would tell him that it was Santas sleigh and he would run inside and straight to bed as he knew he was on the way.
The one year I remember clearly was a comet or similar that had a red tail, he was super excited over that and his excitment rubbed onto me.
It worked every year until he got older.

 

[Viellarde]

NOT FOR THE COMPETITION*

Every Christmas eve since my son was around 3 and my daughter was around 4 months old I would take him out the front to look at the sky, as soon as we saw a shooting star, which didn't take long, I would tell him that it was Santas sleigh and he would run inside and straight to bed as he knew he was on the way.
The one year I remember clearly was a comet or similar that had a red tail, he was super excited over that and his excitment rubbed onto me.
It worked every year until he got older.

I hope he remembers it too. Sooooo good.

 

[deni67]

I hope he remembers it too. Sooooo good.

Sadly he passed away in 2017 aged 33, but yes, he did remember while he was with us

 

[Viellarde]

Sadly he passed away in 2017 aged 33, but yes, he did remember while he was with us

Sending good thoughts your way.

 

[BeautifulMousey]

Sending good thoughts your way.

Sending good thoughts your way.

Sorry to hear about his passing

 

[MargieMac58]

In our family, our pets were always treated as members of the family. So at Christmas, they had a present gift wrapped and put under the tree with all the others. One year, Snoopy’s gift was a box of his favourite treats. Unfortunately, Snoopy was very protective of his food and could smell the treats through the paper. So he sat over them and whenever anyone approached the tree he growled at them. (He didn’t have a vicious bone in his body, he’d never have bitten any of us, but we thought it was hilarious so we sat around for a while and watched and laughed.) After a while, though, we kids really wanted our own presents so he was given a bone and took it outside.

 

[BeautifulMousey]

NOT FOR THE COMPETITION*

Every Christmas eve since my son was around 3 and my daughter was around 4 months old I would take him out the front to look at the sky, as soon as we saw a shooting star, which didn't take long, I would tell him that it was Santas sleigh and he would run inside and straight to bed as he knew he was on the way.
The one year I remember clearly was a comet or similar that had a red tail, he was super excited over that and his excitment rubbed onto me.
It worked every year until he got older.

In our family, our pets were always treated as members of the family. So at Christmas, they had a present gift wrapped and put under the tree with all the others. One year, Snoopy’s gift was a box of his favourite treats. Unfortunately, Snoopy was very protective of his food and could smell the treats through the paper. So he sat over them and whenever anyone approached the tree he growled at them. (He didn’t have a vicious bone in his body, he’d never have bitten any of us, but we thought it was hilarious so we sat around for a while and watched and laughed.) After a while, though, we kids really wanted our own presents so he was given a bone and took it outside.

That would have been wonderful. Glad they were treated like your family. They deserve it. Really they make our day everyday. Really special

 

[BeautifulMousey]

She made a difference to several people who'll be thanking her for the rest of their life, especially when celebrating the birthdays they thought would not happen. Please take comfort in that.

Yes I do. Don't know who the recipient's actually were but do think to myself, at least she has managed to help those people to survive and know that part of Laura is still alive and walking around in those people. I wish them a long life and a happy one.