Old Gordon Christmas

I remember some of our Christmas times when I was a child.  At our base apartment in Maryland, we had a beautiful silver tree.  I still like them.  We loved to look at all the presents under it and the tinsel or angel hair made the lights look so pretty.

Dad had a very nice cardboard fireplace that he put up each year.  It was some sort of kit and it had slots that interlinked and formed a fireplace about 5-6 foot tall.  I've never seen one like it since I've grown up and don't remember whatever happened to it.  There are some versions on sale if you search on the internet, but they don't go as high as ours did. It was special.   All 4 of us kids would get to pick where Santa would leave our gifts for us.  Some of us picked a certain corner, or near a chair, or near a window or by the fireplace.  That way when we got up we all ran to our spot and got to open our gifts.

As children, we always opened our gifts on Christmas Eve.  I love that, but my husband will not let us do that.  Nope, we have to wait till morning.  : (
Just call me Miss Impatient