We had a nice Christmas dinner, we had presents. We were always allowed to open one present at night on Christmas Eve, then we had to wait to morning. There was one time we didn't even see the Christmas tree until morning. They don't do it that way any more. There were times we couldn't afford a Christmas tree, a real one, everyone had real ones in them days. They would cook a great big turkey and all the fixings to go with it, they would throw a duck in with it. My father was a very good cook too. Cause he cooked on the fishing boats, plus worked on deck, they got more shares if they did more jobs.
I used to get a lot of wooden toys in my early childhood, I think my father made most of them. Then wood changed to tin.
The family would come up, there would be some drinking, she used to make us wait until my brother would come up, cause he was married then, me and my young sister would get impatient, but she would sometimes let us open the presents anyway, she liked for everyone to be there, the whole family. And she used to tell me that when she was a little girl they would put candles on the tree, I don't know how they kept the tree from burning.
We had some real old fashioned ornaments, I don't know what become of them, I guess they got destroyed. We always hung our stockings behind the stove, old nylon stockings, they used to stuff them full of fruit and some toy, whatever kind of toy they had at the time.
Bread pudding and mince pie were my favorite, they made all kinds of pies.
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