November 6, 2009
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Holidays Past
The Featured Grownups site has a new topic: Seasons’ Greetings – A Featured_Grownups writing prompt.
When I was a kid [a very long time ago] the major holidays were anything but times of relaxation and celebration. My mother ran a flower shop and of course the holidays were her busiest time – getting those boquets out the door and delivered required all our help – or at least as much as we could give right on through the holiday.
And as if that wasn’t enough at Christmas, my father’s job called for him to supervise one of the US’s first Christmas Eve yacht parades (late ’30s – early ’40s). He had to oversee (an often design) the decorations, the route of the parade (Through the major waterways of Miami Beach) and keep the yachts in order and troubleshoot the multitude of last minute problems. If we got home before daylight on Christmas day, we were lucky. That day was spent mostly sleeping.
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Similar story- The sister had a clothing store so the day after Thanks giving to around 9:00pm Christmas Eve were 12 hour days and you had to be right back there on Boxing day (Canadian)for returns, post X-mas sales and gift certificates. The joys of retail!
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Thank you for sharing, I have enjoy reading it.
ahh the joys of working parents and the children…great post…smile
that is different from ours for sure.Interesting to me.
Retail is hard on families during the holidays. Many of our holidays were spent not on the offical day.
Great entry. Thanks for sharing! I’m having fun reading all of these
But is this a part of a family tradition?
That “Tradition” was many years ago, when I was a child. Lately our Christmas traditions are more mundane. Probably the only curious one is the number of ornaments we have collected over the past several decades – all of which MUST go on the tree.
sounds busy busy!
I would have much preferred that to my Christmases growing up. I guess the grass is always greener.