Baking and Remembering

Here's what Christmas 1971 looked like at our house! Very festive and happy. Our "umbrella style" style Christmas tree. The one we had before that was silver! When the umbrella tree was done for, we started driving near Stockbridge, Massachusetts to cut a fresh one down. Somewhere I have those photos too!

 Also in the living room was our fireplace, also decorated and lit up! We hung our stockings there. The living room smelled so good. My Dad would play the organ.

I always loved the styrofoam letters spelling NOEL we had on the mantle. Can you see them? Wish I still had them!

In 1971 I was six years old, and wanted a special doll named Velvet. She was a "growing hair" type of doll. You may remember her more famous older sister, Growing Hair Chrissy...

In the background below, you can see on Christmas morning I received her! And much more! I remember all those gifts!

I even got Velvet's hair dryer and beauty set.  The white ceramic bunny statue in the photo is now in Caitlin's room on her dresser. I see I got pink fuzzy slippers....

Yesterday I was baking. I've been working so hard to be a good cookie baker! I never really did cookies; I was better at other baked items but this year I decided to challenge myself, and I am enjoying cookies so much! Baking makes you think and think and think.....and it brought me back to Christmas past. How I love those days! They've shaped how I celebrate my holidays now as a Mom. Thanks for letting me be six years old again!