I need your help today!
Due to being in meetings all day, I only found one poem for today's thread. So how about some potpourri?
Would you tell us about your most memorable Christmas? I'll start.
When I was 16, my Dad had bleeding ulcers, went through 3 surgeries and was out of work for 4 months. My mother was very creative and talented so even tho money was tight, she and my Dad had planned a good Christmas. (I'm sure there was a little help from my aunts and uncles).
Do you remember being 16? Everything embarrassed me at that age.
I answered the door 3 days before Christmas and people from the church came bearing gifts. A gift for each of us five children and all the fixings for a wonderful Christmas dinner. Of course, I was embarrassed that friends would think we needed charity.
When my Mother got home, she asked what I'd said to them, I said something like "I dunno. Okay, I guess."
My Mother used this as a teaching experience. First, people from our church were helping others that they felt needed help. Second, we should be thankful that there were people who cared about us. Third, by the act of giving, our friends felt good about themselves. I was reminded of the times I had taken canned food to school to put in Christmas baskets and how good I had felt to be able to help someone else.
Anyway at sixteen, this was a most embarrassing experience but also very memorable.
Okay .... your turn.