Kitty's Christmas Stories in Yahoo 360 Blog December 24, 2006

Every Christmas in Pennsylvania, my family went to Grandparents’ 2 story house on Mosquito Valley Road for big Christmas dinner. Some tables and many chairs were set up for our large family in the basement, a big living room. Many uncles, aunts, and cousins were there. I dressed up pretty. A lot of FOOD!!! Several desserts! Yummy ! Cousins were playing around in the basement.
I was so sick one Christmas morning. I vomited a food on my grandmother’s purple couch in the family room upstairs at my grandparents’ big house when I woke up from a nap . Yucky! OOPS, it was an accident!
Christmas 1976
We had a snowstorm after Christmas while lived in Pennsylvania. It was awful. The heavy wind of snow blew my face softly and fast when my oldest brother, Joe, opened the door of my Dad’s car after we arrived to see and check out a new 2 story house. I sat in a front of the passenger’s seat. I was mad at him little bit for that. He had no idea! My parents were planned moving to another house, 2 floors, on a different street in another area in about a month. Anyways, I do recall the snowstorm kept continuing all day. Back at my parents’ townhouse, I can’t see anything thru the window of our living room on the first floor cuz the outside was so dark like a gray/white fog but I could see some fire trucks clearly with sirens on. I have no idea what’s going on outside in our neighborhood area .

Christmas 1978
Saw the first movie, “Superman” when it came out. My oldest brother, Joe, took me to see it during Christmastime. My mother was pregnant with David at that time. I can’t walk with a pair of canes due to hip surgeries. I sat in my grandfather’s reclining chair all day.
Every Christmas until I was 10 or 11, I visited Santa Claus at his house for taking a special photo of us together. With my oldest brothers few times until they quit when they get older.
Christmas 1981
As my family and I were living in California at that time, saw “Nutcrackers” in San Jose. It was a wonderful time. Saw David as a toddler meeting Santa Claus outside the big building and had a chat with him before we were heading for that big building after we arrived in San Jose. LOL!
Christmas 1985
In Florida since we moved there from Texas in that June, we were having a Christmas dinner together.
We spent a Christmas dinner together at my parents’ house every year since we moved to Florida.

Christmas 1989
Florida had been experienced a freezing weather. Few days before Christmas, my mother was hosting a Christmas party for her friends at the time the temperature was going down to 20s. Jacksonville got flurries on Christmas Eve so unexpectedly. On a Christmas morning, the temperature was 22 degrees. Wow! This is a similar to Pennsylvania. VERY COLD! Thousands of FPL customers lost a power but I think we were lucky to have a power on in my parents’ house. Florida residents can’t baking their Christmas turkey. I remember we were going to a Christmas party at the home of my mother’s friend but her friend’s Christmas Dinner was cancelled planning cuz one of friends of my mother’s friend had an accident and had to go to the ER right away. Then we went home early. I was disappointed little bit but I am okay.
Christmas 1991
I invited Todd, my then boyfriend, to our holiday dinners. 2 days before Christmas, he flew in to see me again from San Diego. I was happy and excited. Todd gave Christmas presents to us. He gave me a beautiful, knitted sweater with silver glitters and art knitted cats in it. I love it very much. I still have it in my storage box now. Along with a book, “Childhood”, by Bill Cosby. I was happy to receive them. I had a wonderful time with him.
Christmas 1994
I got a beautiful sweater and raffle bands for my hair from my then boyfriend, Todd along with a letter from him. Todd announced he’s coming to see me in the middle Feb 1995. I was so excited when I found out about it. That blue, red, and white sweater looks a shape of hearts. I figured it means a Valentine’s Day. I’ll never forget that gift. How smart Todd was! I still have it in my storage box now.
Christmas 1996
Went to a Christmas Party at Suzanne’s house in Port Orange a week before Christmas. Suzanne is an employee at my college if she’s still continuing her job there. She works in the Disabled Service Dept. We had a wonderful time. Uncle Dick and his son, Chris, and my oldest brother, Mike, were all came down to visit us at my parents’ house for our Christmas dinner. Uncle Dick is the brother of my mother. Good time.
Christmas 1997
Went to a Christmas Party at Suzanne’s house in Port Orange again a week before Christmas. I brought my then fiancé, Todd, there. We had a wonderful time. Saw a movie, “Titanic” with Todd at the movie theater on the weekend. It was very good. Whoa! Anyways, I just found out my grandfather in Pennsylvania is passed away 2 days before Christmas. I was stunned. It happened 3 weeks before my wedding. The family there wanted my mother flying back there for my grandfather’s funeral. My mother did but I did not. She was supposed to work on my wedding plans before our big day. At my parents’ house on a different street long before they are living in a current one, I got a big beautiful framed picture of garden surrounding the gazebo where the woman in her late 19^th century dress stood and overlooking a huge pond. I love it very much. Very beautiful. It was from Joe and his old girlfriend. Wow! It’s putting up onto the wall of living room in my apt now and above my daybed. Anyways, I also got a jewelry box and a movie tape, Xanadu, starred in by Olivia Newton-John from my then fiancé, Todd. Have u seen this movie, Xanadu? It’s very good. I will blog about it later.
Since I joined a deaf club in March 2001, GDBAD, my deaf club, is having an annual Christmas Party. The food is so DELICIOUS! Wonderful party.
Christmas 2004
I went over to my parents’ house for a Christmas dinner with Joe and David & Nhat. Good food. I got a beautiful pink sweater, pairs of earrings, and a skyblue jogging suit. Wonderful time.
Christmas 2005
Stopped by at my parents’ house for opening Christmas presents. I got a new purple robe, a book, a navy sweater with silver glitter Christmas trees and gemstones of star (I didn’t wear it much cuz Florida sometimes gets a warm weather during winter). That navy sweater was from Great Uncle Frank and Great Aunt Honey. Very beautiful. Afterwards, Mom, Dad, and I went over to David & Nhat’s house in Orange City. We were going to have a Christmas dinner together there. A lot of FOOD! Yummy! David & Nhat got a big Christmas presents from some of their relatives and friends: 2 beautiful lamps and a furniture. Wow! I got a Wal-Mart gift card from them.