Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! Christmas memories and traditions are to be cherished. Yes, Melissa and Jeff, Christmas eve at Mama Loveless' were real events. Everyone was invited and most showed up. There were always no less than 35 people there--most of the time there were more. I wonder how Mamma was able to endure all those people at once. Guess she just tuned all the noise out. It was always potluck and did we ever have food. It seemed that we all had our specialties or brought something special for another person (I always brought 4-layer delight so Billy Joe could have some). I remember bringing a Yankee salad once and Melissa, your mother, laughingly told me she was a Yankee and had never eaten that salad before. Yes, several years we put all the grandkids, and anyone else who wanted to go, in the back of the truck and caroled all over the community. Melissa, were you there the year when someone's dogs started following us barking and would not turn around and go home. Guess our singing was hurting his ears. Theresa, Kerry, and Amy talk about those times quite often. Yes, Mamma always had a gift for everyone under the tree. She never missed anyone. Most of the time the gifts were something she had made, but it could have been a pair of underwear that did not fit, a pair of gloves, socks, etc. Melissa, is that picture from 1972 or should it be 1971. Amy was not in it, so was wondering if the year is correct.