What takes you back to your childhood Christmas?

[cyber-sibes]

Baking cookies takes me back. My mom was a wonderful baker and baked & gave away dozens and dozens of cookies & nut rolls to everybody, so our house was FILLED with good smells. There were cookies literally everywhere! Our dog used to sneak up & snatch the ones that hung over the edges of the tables, LOL! I loved to sit in the kitchen & eat apricot filling So I bake her recipies for cookies every year in her honor, and give lots away too. When my sons were home, they like baking with me, too -- the tradition lives on!

[cmayer31]

My childhood Christmas memories are getting a tree and cutting it down and then decorating it. It was very important to my parents to have both my brother and I there for an entire night of decorating the tree. Also, there's not too much of a reason to use fire places around here, but every winter my grandfather would have a big fire in the fireplace and we'd sit around the tree telling stories and enjoying good company.

I miss those times more than anything.

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

When I see those old-fashioned little Santa-lamps.... . We had those, and I was always fascinated by them...

[Donnaj4962]

I guess what takes me back the most is baking cookies. Dad would always take us five girls on a Saturday before Christmas and we would go to a tree farm and find and cut down our own tree! We would go home and Mom would have been baking sugar cookies. Dad would get the tree in the stand and ready for decorating while we girls would decorate the sugar cookies.

I always think about this as I decorate my own tree (although it is artificial) and as I decorate my own sugar cookies.

Although I don't have children of my own, I have started a tradition with my friend's children. They come over and help me decorate my tree and we bake cookies! It is like I am re-living my childhood dreams! I love it!

[lvpets2002]

Oh WoW Let Me Think.. My Grandmam making all white coconut cake with big pecan halfs all over it{oh so good}.. The night before Christmas & watching TV while they noted Santa flying in & my dad would take us kids to town to the Sonic for burgers & shakes while mom was wraping presents {which found out later}.. The next morning waiting in the hall before was allowed to go to the tree.. The snow outside [when it would snow in Tx].. The smell of the fireplace & spiced cider..