10 DOC Day4 Childhood Memories

This is not my family, but it could be. I was unable to find any childhood Christmas pictures, so I "adopted" an online family. LOL This is in my Travelers Notebook but I decided to make a layout out of this one. Journaling talks about how whenever I see pictures of my childhood, everybody looks so stiff and so old. My grandparents weren't very old, but they always looked and acted like old people. I also talk about how we spent out Christmas Days - not very happily - we spent every Christmas day with my Mom's extended family and we didn't know them and only saw them once a year. We dreaded that every year - but when we went to my dad's parents in the evening, that was the highlight of Christmas! Sadly, I asked for a pony every year and my grandpa (Mom's dad) always told me I was getting one. Of course, there was never a pony out by the front porch on Christmas morning. I still don't think that was funny - to this day - and he finally made it up to me when I was in Jr. High School, by buying me a horse. But all of those years of expectation weren't very fun.

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