My Favourite Holiday Memories

By Crystal

Christmas is my favourite holiday of the year. Why? Well because Christmas is the time of year when you spend the most time with your family and close friends.

My favourite Christmas holiday memories are the times when me, my mom, my brother and sister used to go to my grandparents’ house for Christmas every year. They lived in Colborne in the country where you go outside at nighttime and see all the stars nice and clearly. We would usually get there the day before Christmas so we could prepare certain things like putting decorations on the tree and putting presents underneath. My grandpa would put out Pot of Gold chocolates and hard colourful licorice candies.

Unfortunately nobody liked them. At nighttime my grandma would put out snacks and invite her friends from around the neighborhood over and we would all talk, snack and exchange gifts. At the end of the night my grandma would tell us children to go to bed so Santa could come to bring us gifts. In the morning when we woke up we got to open our stockings. Then it was time for breakfast. After breakfast we opened our presents and shared memories from last Christmas and took some pictures.

For dinner we had turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, peas and homemade turkey gravy and for dessert we had homemade pumpkin pie, ice cream and a spice carrot cake with currants and raisins in it. It was topped with a sauce my grandma called foam sauce.

When my mom, brother, my sister and me returned home the day after Christmas, we would spend the day with our close friends. Before Christmas we played a game called Secret Santa. This was a game where we picked a name out of a hat and whatever name we picked was the person we were to get a gift for, and by the time Christmas came we would find out who our Secret Santa was and for the rest of the day we shared our holiday memories with each other.