Memoir Mondays Week 10

I accidentally missed participating in last week's Memoir Mondays post!  I didn't mean to, but I was so busy that I just totally forgot about it.  I remembered this week, though, and I hope you enjoy reading it.  :)

1. Did your family participate in Black Friday? Was it something you looked forward too? If they didn’t, what was the tradition for the Friday after Thanksgiving?


No, my family does not participate in Black Friday unless we can do it on the internet.  We discovered almost 8 years ago (when my daughter Mary Grace was born on December 2) how wonderfully convenient it is to shop on the internet and have our Christmas gifts delivered right to our door!  I'm not one of those women who loves to go shopping, and I especially dislike it around the holidays when the stores are so busy and crowded.  It's also very hard for me to shop and not want everything I see!  (Just being honest.....) For those reasons, it just makes more sense for me to shop on the internet as much as I can and avoid going in the stores.

For many years now, my family and I have taken the day after Thanksgiving to put up our Christmas tree and decorate the house.  I don't remember if my husband and I started that tradition before we had the children or if it began after that.  My older two children and my husband don't care too much to help with the tree or the decorations, so my younger daughter and I usually do most of it.  The others are usually in the room nearby, though, keeping an eye on us.  They also sometimes help clear the "regular" things off the shelves or hand things to us or help clean up when we're all done.  We love to listen to Christmas music while we work, and then we all enjoy looking over everything when it's finished. 


2. Did you wish you had more brothers or sisters? Why?

You know, I've never really thought about having more brothers or sisters!  I suppose if I'd had more of them I would have liked it, but after all these years it's kind of hard to imagine there being more than my two sisters and me.  Because I have a twin sister, I always had another child my own age to play games with and go places with and that kind of thing.  For that reason, I probably wasn't as likely to wish for a brother or sister as many other children. 

When we were 15 years old, our mom had a baby, and we were really excited about it!  I do remember being glad that we were going to have a baby sister.  Now that we are all 3 grown up, it's nice that all 3 of us can be friends.  Even with our age differences, our children are all of similar ages, too, and they enjoy playing together too (most of the time).  Now I'm glad that there are the 3 sisters, but I don't find myself wishing for more.  I guess I'm just not imaginative to think of there being any other than we three.  :)

Because I so often don't have time to link up my post until later in the day, I'm including the address to April's blog so you can take a look at her post.  (Note to April:  I will link up sometime today!!)  Thanks, April, for taking the time to come up with these questions each week!  I really enjoy posting on them, and I hope folks enjoy reading them too!  http://bzoohomeschool.blogspot.com/