My Christmas Souvenir

The sledding and the skating in ‘63; the sugar cookies frosted green and red; the stringing popcorn with my family and going anxiously that Eve to bed. The gift exchange when relatives would meet. Some traveled far to Grandma's little town. The feast and seeing cousins  such a treat! We stayed and played until the sun went down. The program at our church where all took part. Our flock was small but talent did not lack. The joyous songs; before we would depart; the glorious sweets dispensed from Santa's sack! No holiday to come could be as dear as when I was a child in my eighth year! For the "Christmas Past, Present or Future" Poetry contest of Kelly Deschler (This was also the year my mother met my stepdad and we became a family of 9 instead of 5. A standout year, but also reminiscent of many of my childhood years at Christmas time in Iowa. With so many dear relatives now passed on, the past would be my time I would choose to revisit.)