Thoughts of Christmas past

When I was about six years old, it came the time at school for the Nativity play.

I so wanted to play Mary, but Marie said I had blonde hair, and Mary had dark hair, and all the class nodded.
I frowned at Marie, she was always nasty to me, she said I was weird because I went to reading and writing lessons with the eight-year-olds, because I was more advanced. Michael put chewing gum in her hair for being so mean.

I shouted out, that I thought the whole Nativity story was unfair, cos it had more boys than girls in the story.
The teacher, Miss Higgings glared at me, and said: "Put your hand up, if you need to speak!"
I muttered to myself, I was right huh.

So, Marie was chosen to be Mary, I was chosen to be an angel.
I wondered if angels were girls, and I hated wearing those wire halo things on my head, let alone the feather wings that made me sneeze.

The night of the performance arrived, the school hall was packed with parents and grandparents.
Backstage the nervous children waited.
I saw Andrew trying to draw on the doll that was to be baby Jesus, and told Miss. He kicked me!

The three wise men got caught up in the shepherds' fake campfire, and galloped around the stage, with it in tow. Marie who was Mary laughed so much her fake donkey fell over.

But the Angels came on stage, and all the audience sang Hark the Herold Angels along with the sweet voices of us children. Although I needed a wee through most of it.

Share one of your memories of Christmas past.

 

When I was 5 years old, my father ran away from his family a few days before Christmas and didn't return for several weeks. It was the most peaceful Christmas I ever experienced during my formative years.
Merry Christmas!

 

Oh, I guess you have mixed feelings about Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you.

 

Thank you Candy, Merry Xmas to you and yours.

 

my 'christmass pasts', are mostly, when i was still living with my parents, my dad almost always ended up having to work on that day, because there are some kinds of jobs, in infrastructure especially, where there has to be someone on duty all the time, so people work in shifts, but having reasonably good unions, when the do have to work a holiday or cover for someone on their assigned rest days, get paid time and half, double time, or even double time and a half, so we never, or i never anyway, felt any kind of resentment about that. we just celebrated the holidays on whatever days closest to it, he did have off.

since i've been on my own, and even then, it has always been not especially about the particular day, but about people being a little nicer and more considerate, during the week or so, from the solstice, or a little before, to new year. when my wife was alive, we were both baha'is and what socializing we did was mostly with members of that faith. which doesn't consume mind altering substances, and our gift exchanging holiday was at a different time of year. but making and sharing good things to eat, that was something that might happen on any holiday or occasion.

likewise some of the other interest groups i have at different time in my life, that were local and had regular meetings, like furrys and science fiction fans, among others, (who of course did optionally indulge, but not as a central focus) would have parties and at other times of year, even conventions.

other then the first 18 years of my life, and the 13 years i was married, well again, the day itself, has never been a big thing in my adult life.
just the solstice being the day that daylight hours stop getting fewer and start getting longer again until mid summer when they start getting shorter again.
of course you can't really go anywhere without noticing the retail feeding frenzy, but not having anyone to exchange with, doesn't really have much affect on my life,
other then the occasional inconvenience, like fewer buses running when holiday schedules are in effect.

i just do though, like that idea of people wishing each other happiness and that to everyone reading this now.

 

Your posts are always so touching. x
Thanks for sharing.

 

My Christmas past is to be thankful for. It is not the best though.

 

Oh?

 

This could be me. lol

 

I am humble.

 

Oh did you not go carol singing?

 

I have been carol singing. I enjoy that.

 

See you do have thoughts of Christmas past. X

 

My favourite Xmas may have been like when I was 10 and the whole places snowed in and we could not get outside and stuck in this converted church lodge and the whole family sat in and played board games for a whole 2 days.

 

I have thoughts of Christmas passed.

 

Aww nice memories eh?

 

I played the role of Joseph in a Nativity play at my junior school.

I can still remember one of my lines after all these years (1974).

"Come Mary we must find lodgings for the night ".

This was also the first time I had facial hair .The beard was wooly and stuck on with some sort of glue.It was applied by a make up department of a local amature dramatics society,

It took mum ages to get off and left a red mark on my face which took a few days to dissappear.

Happier times

 

Happy times are in our hearts, we are all still making memories. x

 

I remember when our first christmas was without my Dad's mum.
She used to give us a huge Boxing Day spread.
The goodies she baked for all of us could be smelt from the entry sign that said Queenscliffe
When we have our christmas gatherings now it's all on the one day.
Everyone has their own familes to worry about.