SNGF: Holiday Celebrations and Memories - Part I

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings: Join in, accept the mission, and execute it with precision. Here's your chance to sit on Genea-Santa's lap (virtually) and tell him about your Christmases past. Rev up the old thinking cap and cue up the Mission Impossible music - your mission, should you decide to accept it - keeping with the Christmas theme - is:

1)   Today's challenge is to share memories of December holiday gatherings and celebrations with your families (as a child, a young adult, a parent, a grandparent, a great-grandparent, an aunt or uncle, a nibling, a cousin, an in-law)!  

2)  Pick two or three questions from the list in my blog post:  Ask AI Gemini:  "What questions can I write about concerning family gatherings and celebrations during the December holidays?"  This is a new list of questions somewhat different from last year's list.

Here’s mine:
Where was the most memorable holiday gathering location (a specific house, town, or country)? Why did that location hold special significance?

Photos of Christmases when my brother and I were young seem to be at our grandmother’s house. We likely opened or “received” gifts from Santa at home in the morning, but our parents didn’t take any photos. I do remember that gifts from Santa were unwrapped, and the gifts from parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles were always wrapped. 

Here are my brother and I with cowboy gifts.

This shot of me is likely a year or two earlier, but still at my grandparents’ house.

And a shot of me at my parents’ home. See, none of the toys are wrapped. 

Later, when our family grew to six children, we celebrated Christmas dinners at our home. Our grandparents came to our house. Often, my grandfather’s sister came, too. Here is a photo of my grandmother and my grandfather's sister.

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