Second Christmas Memory Installment

My Childhood Christmas Memories
William Edward Grubbs (born 1922)
Written December 2007

When I was a kid I don’t remember us ever having a Christmas tree, I talked to Louise and she said we did have a pine tree. I don’t know where it came from or who brought it and put it up. I don’t remember any of that. I do remember making the decoration. We had to make our decoration. We made paper chains out of construction paper. We cut it in small strips and glued the ends together after running it through another link in the chain. We also made pop corn chains. We would get a needle and thread and sew the pop corn in chains and that was our decorations. We made some other decorations but I can’t remember what they were. We did have Santa and we got presents but very few as I remember. When we lived in Woodbury Dad’s mother gave my brother W. A. and me bicycles. Louise wasn’t old enough. Mother couldn’t keep up with us then. We rode all over the country. Once we rode down to Warm Springs and talked to President Roosevelt. I started high school in Decatur and I wanted to join the ROTC. Dad gave me his shot gun to sell and buy me some high top shoes. I sold the gun to the barber and got my shoes. Mother and dad were having problems during our growing up years and we weren’t given very much attention, and I don’t know why but we moved often then.

I am sorry there isn’t more, but my memory is gone. Dad