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Offer available while supplies last. No cash value. Must present offer at time of purchase. CSLB 1082165 NSCB 0082999 0083445 1-855-417-1306 SPECIAL OFFER When it comes to the Christmas season, I prefer the simple times. I enjoy remembering being at home with our parents and three sisters. Our house was small and we decorated only a Christmas tree that was in our living room. Later on in life, there were decorations as there was more room. Like many families back in the day, including Mama's family, we went to the pasture for our tree. When Daddy got on his tractor and we helped hook up the trailer, it was a good day. We knew we were going tree shopping. Mama and the four of us girls crawled in the back of the trailer after which Daddy drove over the hills and through the pasture until we found the perfect tree. There was no such thing as going to a Christmas tree farm in the mountains. We went to the pasture. When we found the tree, Daddy chopped it down and we made room for it on the trailer and headed back through the bumpy pasture. We never got our tree early, usually just three or four days before Christmas. Heating with propane gas would dry the tree out quickly, although we were diligent to keep water in the green and red tree stand at all times. Tree decorations were red, blue, green and white Christmas lights that we'd string fi rst and then we'd start hanging the ornaments. From year to year, we'd pull out the box of ornaments we purchased at Rose's and those we made at school or church. We always had a star to top the tree with a bright white light. The fi nal touch were the thin silver icicle strands that seemed to make the tree magical. One by one my older sister placed one strand of icicles at a time, while my impatient self threw a wad of the icicles on one spot only to have her take it back and put them up properly. Christmas around the Gordon house also included making Daddy his all time favorite coconut cake from scratch. We'd help mama as she sat on our back steps and crack open the coconut, cut away the shell and then we'd go inside to grade the coconut. Best cake ever and made usually only at Christmas. It was a lot of work. Christmas Eve at our house meant four little redheaded girls sleeping in the same bed waiting for Santa. We'd giggle and wonder if he was ever going to make it to our house and when we thought we heard the bells from his sleigh, we were scared to move and pulled the covers over our heads. It was the rule around our house we couldn't get out of bed on Christmas morning until we heard the boisterous "Ho Ho Ho" greetings from Daddy and that meant get out of bed and run into the living room where we'd fi nd our parents drinking coffee and under the tree were our gifts from Santa. One year Santa brought all four of us a babydoll, strollers and babydoll diaper bags. Once there were tricycles, but the mega year was when I got a bicycle. It was actually a bicycle for all of us, but I was the only one who could ride it, so a few short days it was mine. Later on, we mastered a way for all four of us to ride at the same time. Sisters were on the front and back fender; one was standing up to peddle and the other on the seat. There was not enough money for more than one bicycle. We shared. Monopoly was a family favorite gift that we played until we practically wore the names off Park Place and Broadway. After opening gifts and having breakfast, we'd go to our grandparents house. From Luke 2 in the Bible, Grandpa Crawford always read the Christmas story. We still do. I can still see him with his Bible open in his hands and reciting the entire story. Christmas also meant going to church for old-fashioned plays and receiving treat bags with orange slice candy, oranges, apples, raisins, peppermint sticks, and a chocolate candy bar. One of my dearest friends sang "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" one year and to this day, I can still hear her sweet, gentle voice. We never bought fresh fruit at our house, so the treat bags were extra special. From Stonecutter Mills, each family member received a larger treat bag fi lled with all sorts of fruits and candy. We kept the treat bags in a cold room and the fruit lasted for months. As a child we'd go to "town" to fi nd Santa and I promise as soon as I saw that red suit walking into a department store, I hid. We didn't make Christmas cookies at our house, only the coconut cake and pound cakes. Sometimes we'd go Christmas caroling to our neighbor's homes or to the rest home near by our house. I learned early on the greatest gifts on earth really aren't gifts at all. Family and friends together - safe under a roof with food, health and clothes and being able to celebrate the greatest story ever told - the birth of Christ together, now that's a gift. Merry Christmas. Contact Jean: gordonjean211@gmail.com THE GREATEST GIFTS OF ALL... By: Jean Gordon small town friendly BIG time results