- Thanksgiving
- Grampy's electric turkey trimmer from the 70s and it being the only thing the turkey could be trimmed with. Naturally, he was the only one who could operate it.
- Grampy making the turnip but refusing to eat it.
- Specific seating arrangements.
- The dog show.
- Nany's house in the evening for leftover sandwiches
- Birthday (throwing this in there)
- Having the same birth date as my grandmother.
- Birthday cake in the living room.
- Setting up the kid's table.
- Nany's love seat for opening presents.
- A figurine for every year, ages 1-16.
- The lighting in the big living room (which I specifically associate with my birthday).
- Christmas
- Christmas Eve mass followed by the pizza feast at Grampy and Nana Ginnie's house (something I probably miss most about Christmas times now).
- The stockings on the railing upstairs in the old house, since we didn't have a chimney
- Convincing myself I saw santa in the shadows that one year.
- We had two entrances to our living room at our old house and my parents used to sneak the presents in the back door.
- White lights on the tree.
- Red dresses with lace.
- Barbie dream house in the kitchen.
- The rotation prolonging the present opening process.
- Spiral Ham.
- Cookie getting wasted on Cat Nip.
- Christmas night at Nany's house.
- Present circle.
- Christmas night at the Bramescos, surrounded by friends.
- New Years
- My parents letting me drink diet coke out of a wine glass on the eve of the millennium.
nov 5 2011 ∞
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