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Remembering memorable Christmas Eves
Posted By katie allison granju
Over at KnoxViews, folks are sharing their favorite Christmas Eve memories:
Dad was killed in a car wreck when I was eleven and Mom remarried a few years later to a man who would have made a fine character in a Dickens story. She finally left him two children later, with a small alimony which he never paid on time so that she was always short on money. Mom went to work at the state offices of Georgia and wound up in Ben Fortson’s office and eventually rose to Deputy Director, Secretary of State for Max Cleland, but this was before that.
I had graduated and was working in my first job after college. She called and said she had bought Santa for the kids and needed help putting it together, which meant that my brother and I would assemble whatever it was. I bought a fifth of Jack Black and headed over.
Brother and I spent most of the night and part of the wee hours assembling a sheet metal kitchen for baby half Sister and some pedal toy for baby half brother. They were five and six years old. Had I purchased a larger bottle, it would never have happened.
We had argued, threatened and laughed our way through the night until Santa had Tab A in Slot B and all was functional. It was to be my first Christmas on the “Other side” of Santa.
Dec 23rd, 2007
