SPREADING HOLIDAY CHEER
DAY 24....Let someone ahead of you in
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HOLIDAY WORD of THE DAY.....STAR⭐️⭐️
Today let someone go ahead of you. Funny as we did that yesterday. Guess I can do it again today. These days it’s conquer and divide at the grocery store; my husband goes one way and I go another, then we meet up to check out together. Murph let a man ahead of him yesterday. The guy only had three items, bread, milk and eggs. I thought it funny as we live in Florida and definitely not expecting a snow storm. So he thanked Murph for letting him go ahead. Next, as we put our groceries on the checkout counter (we each had a basket) I told the cashier we were together and I’m paying. Evidently the cashier misunderstood and said how generous it was to pay for someone’s order for the holiday. I laughed and said no that is my husband all these items are going to the same household.
So today be nice to let another ahead of you.
Today’s word is STAR. I did a few acrostic pieces; two I’ll use as a card verse for next year if not this year.
Just a few days remain till Christmas Day; the hype of buying gifts, sending cards and over indulging in food and drink will be over. We will forget the true meaning of the holiday.
Today as I type up this, I’m listening to music on a music TV station. Some songs can trigger memories.
On my daily holiday countdown I noted today is FESTIVUS Eve.
Until tomorrow....enjoy your day and as always Stay Safe.
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This is triggered by a song. A wonderful memory of being a kid anticipating Santa.
Christmas 1958 I was in second grade. I no longer lived with my uncle and family. I did miss them though. My mother, who I only saw on weekends, till I went to Chicago, had ended moved to Illinois. She then took custody of me. She had a job at a trucking firm and resided in a small apartment. It was just the two of us. After school the landlady watched me till my mother came home. I actually had a key to get into the apartment which you can say made me a latch key kid. That year we had a small table top Christmas tree. Santa brought me a doll and a record player that year. My very first 45RPM was the song “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”.
Santa also gave me my first 33LP which was Frank Sinatra’s “Come Fly With Me”. I guess that made me a fan of Frank; but I think the album was really for my mom. I loved playing my childish records on the blue and white record player. I even learned how to change the needle. Unfortunately the record player was taken away when my mother married my step-father. Step-granny Kate felt a person my age should not own such an item as it was frivolous. It ended up becoming family property and only used by adults. How I hated everyone. Just because the step-siblings did not own a record player why should I be punished for owning one.
Personally that Christmas of 1958 I enjoyed as I spent it with my mother. We did go to my uncles that day and I always loved being around my cousins. It was the last year it indeed was a Merry Christmas till I was in my thirties.
As I write this the Chipmunk Song came over the TV music channel. It gave me a smile to remember that Christmas sixty-two years ago.
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STAR I
Star led the wisemen to the stable
That held the manger where Baby Jesus laid
Angels sang in the heavens on high
Rejoicing the birth of the Savior
STAR II
Star or Angel on top of the six foot tree
The decorating dilemma each year
Always I decide on the bright silver star
Realizing the Angel fits best on the smaller
STAR III
Star of Bethlehem guided the shepherds
and wisemen to the stable
The gifts of the gold, frankincense and
myrrh they presented
A spiritual meaning each gift did have
Reason we celebrate the season, birth of
the Christ child
STAR IV
Santa will be coming soon
Time to hang up your stocking
And jump into bed early
Remember to leave him a snack
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