My wife and I will be spending Christmas here at home alone because of the weather, but that's fine with me. Holiday with the family will just be postponed a bit. I do get a bit nostalgic, though.
I come from a small family and our few relatives were too far away to get together with for Christmas. This was back in the fifties, and we just didn't travel as much. So on Christmas eve we invited to old batchelor neighbors over, along with dad's batchelor brother who rode out from town with grandpa.
One of the batchelor neighbors never married cause he had to be the man of the farm at age 14 when his dad went to the mental institute in 1919. The other didn't marry cause his fiance died of the flu while he was in France during WW1 and it hurt him so bad he never looked for another. This was the only Christmas our guests had because they didn't have any family. My step-grandmother's religion didn't celebrate Christmas so she never would show up.
One of the batchelor neighbors would always bring a box of Royal Anne cherries for my sis and me and the other one would give us each fifty cents, which bought a lot of candy fifty years ago. I forget what dad's brother or grandpa gave us but it certainly wasn't candy cause grandpa was a dentist.
We'd open gifts after the big meal, but dad's brother was such a slow eater it seemed like he'd never get done.
It almost brings tears when I remember the happy look on the batchelor neighbor's faces when they opened their gifts, the only gifts they would receive for Christmas.
I didn't realize it at the time but my parents were going out of their way to do what christians should do, and that's helping others who are less fortunate than us. Merry Christmas. Jim
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