Christmas as a kid

There are a few things I don't miss about Christmas mornings as a kid.  Oh, I know...you're probably all 'mushy' about recollections of YOUR childhood Christmases ...masses...(couldn't find plural of this word in dictionary).  Here's a few things I'm glad are gone:
1. SNOW, ICE, COLLLLD-D temps (Minnesota, don't cha know??)
2. wrinkled tinsel, or even straight...    we carefully began to hang it on the branches, then when half-   way done, we just threw it on.  Mother ordered us to carefully pack it away when we took the tree down a couple weeks later, but when we needed it the next season, it was just a big ball laying in the  bottom of the box of ornaments.
3. I don't miss those ugly little hooks one used to hang the glass balls onto the branches...first the hook pokes you, then the pine needles poke you...then your sister pokes you...uh, I probably shouldn't have added that.
4.  the stockings all hung by the...ours were Dad's white work sox hung on the mantel of the cardboard fireplace (with the red cellophane over an electric gizmol that went round and round, casting eerie shadows.)
5.  the one orange and a dozen walnuts (still in the shell) settled down in the toe of the stocking.  What kid can hardly wait to crack her nuts on that festive morning?
Do you see all this in your imagination??  It sounds dismal, but we looked forward to it all year.

We usually got a gift of a new flannel nightgown the night before and I only remember opening ONE gift presented under the tree... adorned with fallen pine needles. 
We didn't read the Bethlehem account or sing hymns...oh, sure we sang JINGLE BELLS or RUDOLF, THE RED-NOSED DEER.  We believed in and performed as 'nice rather than naughty.3' to please the big, fat guy SANTA.  We always listened to DICKEN'S CHRISTMAS CAROL on the radio each Christmas Eve, performed by Lionel Barrymore. And we had a favorite uncle that stopped by with a tin of hard candy that we fought over.

There you have it; does that differ much from yours?

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