The Christmas Gift I Never Forgot...What Was Yours?

I remember getting this mechanical basketball game that used a ping pong ball that rolled into one of the holes and you had as sptirng loaded lever to try and make a basket. I was maybe 7.

It's hard to name just one gift. My most recent was last year, just before I flew over to Honolulu to spend New Year's with Hella Rothwell, my team member, Barbara Dow, mailed a present to my house in Hawaii. It was a silver chain bracelet with a small Buddha. Because she overhead me tell my husband that a person can never have too many Buddhas.

Kathy it is the simple things given from the heart that have the biggest impact on our lives.

One special memory is when my older brother and I received our cowboy and cowgirl outfits for Christmas. I only really "remember" because of the special photographs that were taken that year, but I also remember the sulfur smell of my brothers cap gun... Another year all my friends got electric hot rollers for Christmas, and I was devastated I didn't get them. A full 12 months later, the following Christmas, they arrived.  I used those hot rollers for years!

Morning Kathy.

My fondness memories was not what I received but the delight on our kids faces when we were struggling for funds.  Somehow we found the money to give them the one gift they really wanted.  

Wow Kathy,  I  remember getting my first set of  drums set from my Uncle and aunt at age.  My parents were not thrill but boy was I and played drums for years even in a band in my teens.

One of my most memorable Christmas gifts was an afghan made by my grandmother.  I was a young kid at the time, but as luck would have it the Christmas morning I opened that gift, it was like a hug from grandmom from states away.  I slept under that thing all day and the next.  Still have it. 

This is a great post, by the way. I'm honored to add my most memorable gift.

My grandfather died in 1987. I was devastated, as this was the first person that I was really close to that had died. I had lived with my mom and grandparents the first 2 years of my life because Dad was in the Navy.

My grandfather only had a sixth grade education, so his spelling wasn't the best. He had been ill for about 5 years and he told my grandmother that he wanted to leave some of "his money" to his children and grandchildren,( which wasn't a lot). So, he wrote each of his children's and grandchildren's names on a sheet of paper with the amount he wanted to give them.

Christmas 1988 or 1989, my grandmother was unable to come celebrate with the family so she sent gifts down. We were instructed to open this one gift together. When we opened our box, I saw a copy of the piece of paper my grandfather had written, in his childish scrawl, along with the money he wanted us to have.

You could have heard a pin drop.  We were all crying. It wasn't the money but the handwriting brought our loss home as we remembered him.

Best gift ever.

I don't recall how old I was, but I had told everyone I wanted a camera. That Christmas, I got 3 of them!

Your post has sent me back in time, thinking of many gifts and many people - many who are no longer with us.

My most treasured Christmas gift was my son Joshua born on Christmas Eve.

My childhood gift I never forgot was the doll Baby Secret. I still remember the smell of that doll and her little lips moving when she whispered.

How thoughtful!  Cookies and milk is my favorite dessert.. anything home made is a very considerate gift.

My birthday is Christmas Eve, so I got two sets of presents each year from my parents.  My favorite birthday/Christmas was when I turned 13.  I got a tennis racket for my birthday and an electric guitar for Christmas.  I still play tennis and guitar.  They were gifts that literally lasted a lifetime, although I don't still have the same racket and guitar.