Christmas Past

On several others blogs I've found people reminiscing about Christmases past. So I thought I might contribute to the memories with a post or two myself. Amazingly I do not have any one special Christmas that I remember. My early childhood eludes me, leaving scattered vague memories. Fortunately, I have pictures. The picture below was obviously NOT taken in 1986. I had an old daybook that I pondered adding to the landfill and I had a stack of old photos that I didn't have an album to put them in. Soooo... the daybook has become a nice photo album with plenty of space to write whatever notes I want (and sometimes the printed quotes and what had been written makes an amusing connection with the old photos). Below two pages from that album of my brother and myself at Christmas in our trailer. I'm not sure where we were living at the time. My dad worked road construction and we moved around a lot. That's why we were living in the trailer. There was another family that moved around with us. Their dad worked with my dad and the families have been lifelong friends.
Not really sure but I think this was my 2nd Christmas. Looks like we both just got a couple presents, but we're pleased as punch! I just wanted to point out the stacking toy and the dustpan in the window over the couch. I still have those.
I especially remember going to the grandparents houses for Christmas. I don't know how often we did this when I was younger, but when I got older this was something I looked forward to every Christmas. Mom's folks lived in Goodland, KS and Dad's folks were in Burlington, CO right across the state line. So we'd spend time with one then load up the car and spend some time with the other. I remember Mom's mom having a lazy susan filled with homemade Christmas candies. I think the Christmas dinner smelled better than Thanksgiving. It was just always a wonderful time of travel, family and warm feelings.