Perfect Moment Monday: Christmas Memories

By Karen Kleinwort ~ 12/28/2010

My Perfect Moment for this week …

…was watching my toddler “get” Christmas on Christmas morning. The last two Christmases he was too young to truly “get” it; he liked the lights, but the present unwrapping thing was just a little out there. But this year he is two and a half, and he “got” what it meant to unwrap presents, that Santa came and left a toy for him as well as a few things in his stocking.

Karen examines Christmas memories both old and new.The pure joy of his first Christmas allowed me a few seconds to pull from my mental archives a few of my own initial memories of Christmases past. Receiving Barbie and her sports car was one of my memories that came flooding back. I think I was five, but I would have to ask my mum about the exact timing. The next memory was watching my sister receive her first stereo at the age of 12: a turntable with an 8-track player. Why was I excited? Because my parents were all about fairness, so it meant that in two years I would be getting my very own stereo. The one memory that does stand out is when I asked for the Carpenter’s album one year and instead my mother decided that Don Ho’s Tiny Bubbles would be a better gift for me!?!?!? At the time I was horrifically disappointed, but now I look back and laugh.

I am excited to have caught a few of my son’s perfect, joy-filled memories of this Christmas on film while also was fortunate enough to share the experience with good friends.

Each week I participate in Perfect Moment Monday, sponsored by Write Mind, Open Heart. According to Lavendar Luz, who runs WMOH, "Perfect Moment Monday is about noticing a perfect moment rather than creating one. Perfect Moments can be momentous or ordinary or somewhere in between." And so, here is a Perfect Moment for this week.

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Don Ho??

Submitted by Lavender Luz on Wed, 12/29/2010 - 09:39.

I'm amazed you grew up to be so well-adjusted! ;-)

Isn't it fun to help create Christmas memories for someone? You get to re-live your own with the memories of a child but the perspective of an adult.

Merry belated Christmas, Karen!

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