What did Santa Bring Ya
We have always been a Bi household. Not only is Christmas the celebration of the birth of Our Lord Jesus the Christ Child, but it was a Secular Holiday where Santa Clause comes and gives us a bunch of gifts.
Mom and Dad would wrap us presents but every year Santa would come on Christmas Eve and fill our Stockings and leave us an unwrapped gift.
It was truly magical.
My sister’s favorite gift from Santa was an EasyBake Oven…Some years she got Barbie Dolls. My brother liked TONKA Trucks. One time he got a Tonka Big Rig Flat Bed 18 wheeler that you could stand on. I remember digging a big pit in the backyard using the TONK Shovel Truck and Bull Dozer.
But I was a Reincarnated Nordic Warrior. And as a 4, 5, and 6 year old I was fascinated by Vikings. One Christmas I asked for a Hammer like Thor.
So when I was 6 or 7 I asked Santa for my all time favorite Toy.
THe Fighting Knights Carry All… Heck it says Action right on it.
http://www.buymarxtoys.com/2010/10/huge-vintage-marx-knights-vikings-playset-collection/
It Came with Knights and Vikings. My Vikings would always take the castle and butcher the Knights. My favorite pieces were the Berserkers with Axes. Yes I spent many hours dreaming of Mayhem.
What were your favorite gifts that Santa brought ya?
I sure did love that gyroscope…
The block city was pretty cool too…
As a child I loved earthworms. I made a worm hospital from an old fashioned biscuit tin and followed my dad through the garden whilst he gardened to rescue any earthworms that were cut in half or at risk of being cut in half by his shovel. One Christmas my uncle gave me two enormous gippland earth worms..I set them free in the garden and never saw them again…I didn’t mind that…I will always remember how they felt in my hands…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Gippsland_earthworm
Merry Chrissie Roscoe, to you and your family…
A cowgirl costume complete with fake plastic guns in holsters. A chemistry set. A satin comforter like Stephanie Raymond had. But always, always, a card that said I could go back to camp in Vermont for the next summer.
Merry Christmas, Roscoe.
I got what I thought was a Rachel Ray blow up doll! Now THAT would be an ACTION toy!
Turned out to be a cookware set.
Which is exactly what I asked Santa for….
a hangover .
Hi ya Roscoe!!!
I always got unwrapped gifts from Santa too. I’m not sure why I wrapped the gifts from Santa to my kids.
I think the thing I most enjoyed was those pictures that you used colored pencils with.
hmmmm…sadly I dont remember any Christmas’s or what I got even as a child…car accidents wiped out alot of memories, I must have gotten tonnes of art supplies I was always drawing on everything 🙂 …I guess I’d say the beautiful diamond ring I got from my husband 6 years ago.
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Thanks for pulling a few more memories out of the hazy areas of my brain.
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In my family growing up, Santa’s gift (there was only one) was always unwrapped, always a toy, and usually quite large. The ones I remember most were a cardboard makeup vanity with “realistic” foil mirror and plastic make-up and wigs, a talking Suzy Smart doll that came with her own school desk and chalkboard, and a Best of the West playset that included Johnny West, his wife Jane, their horses Flame and Thunderbolt, and their indian pal Chief Cherokee with his horse Storm Cloud. Unfortunately, I had to share that playset with my little brother until he got G.I. Joe the next year and was then uninterested in the adventures of the West family.