Happy Holidays! My Mother surprised me this year on Thanksgiving with 16 pages of stories of our family that she had written. She receives Reminisce magazine in the mail from a cousin and in 2002 she saw many Christmas stories that had been sent in to the magazine and she thought gee I could do that, so she began to write. The first story she wrote was of Xmas's past and when she was a child growing up. I hope you enjoy it. I am sorry but I have not photos of the family from these early days at Christmas time, wish I did! May Alice Puckett, d/o Mary Augusta Myers and Eddie Clarnece Puckett, gd/o Sarah Ann Jobe and Simpson Myers, and gt gd/o Edward Jobe and Isabelle Fincher. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajobebrown/jobe/letters_ch_copple_myers.html Xmas�s of the Puckett Family by Mary Alice (Puckett) Null, Hoskins November 14. 2002 I thought maybe I should write about the early Xmas�s of the Puckett family. (This is what I can remember) When I was 4 years old I received a Red Tricycle for Xmas. My dad (small as he was) Played Santa Claus at the Elgin, Ks. Methodist church that year. The Xmas that stands our in my memory more than the next 2 years we lived in Independence. I remember going to Sunday School at Episcopal church & waffle suppers at the Parish Hall, but don�t remember Xmas. When we moved to Sedan I remember Dad always got a Native Cedar tree that we decorated with odds & ends of lights & a few ornaments. Most of our decorations were made by stringing cranberries on string & Popcorn too. We made paper ornaments & our Star for the top of the tree was made from Card board, that we covered with tinfoil. We never threw away tinfoil. We Salvaged it from Cigarette packages & candy bars. Se we could have it to make decorations. Mom always made home made fudge, taffy (we pulled) & divinity (which didn�t always set up solid) we ate it with a spoon. Chestnuts we use to roast in the front of the old wood stove. When the steam built up in them they would pop open & out of stove onto the floor & we scrambled to get them to keep them from burning the rug. Xmas dinner was usually Home grown Roast chicken with Home made dressing. When Dad made dressing he would put onions, Giblets & sometimes sausage or chestnuts in it. He always used "Morton�s Sausage Seasoning" for the seasoning instead of sage. Mom usually just used onions, Giblets in Hers. We usually always had mince meat pie as that was our favorite. Different members of the family had favorite pie for dessert. So sometimes we had pumpkin pie too and Choc cake. We got clothes for Xmas which always made me happy cause I liked clothes. We usually got a game of some kind that we could share. We were happy with what we got and felt "rich" with our presents. Until we saw where other kids got bicycles & coaster wagons. But I couldn�t ride a bike anyway, legs too short & poor balance. I loved my roller skates. I loved skating & did so ever chance I got. All of us that could always spent Xmas at home with Mom & Dad. In afternoon sometimes we played cards or some game.