I was kind of expecting others to post stories too....

Had another one that is in progress: Neighbors puppy was here and found a bag of dog treats. Puppy pulled a treat out but I was there. Short tug of war because puppy wanted the treat but I wasn't sure it was within puppy diet. I won the tug of war but then found out out treat was okay, so I gave it back. Happy puppy. Neighbor now has a present of puppy snacks under their tree.

Got a really nice new bicycle the Christmas after I turned 12. I loved that thing, and rode it everywhere. The next summer, while attending a gun safety class (so I could go deer hunting), I came out to find the locked bicycle missing. From then on I walked everywhere I wanted to go until when I turned 16 and got a car. It was great while it lasted.

When I was young, very young, so young it is probably the first Christmas I remember anything of, I didn't understand how my family did Christmas, so naturally when I saw the packages under the tree I went over and just started opening one. My family was barking and yelling at me and scared, I crawled behind the couch and cried. My mother eventually pushed the half opened package behind the couch and said it was for me. I proceeded to open the package alone. Inside was a homemade stuffed stegosaurus, it was common for my mother to make gifts, we didn't have a lot of money. That stegosaurus became my best friend, living on a farm in the country, friends weren't really something I was able to have back then.

When I moved out of the house in 2005 I asked my mother if she could repair the stegosaurus, she said he was made from old clothes, and the fabric was too worn to repair. Nearly 40 years later the stuffed stegosaurus has been loved to tatters, my family is doing much better by the way. I went home several years ago for Christmas, and the first package I opened was a homemade stuffed stegosaurus made of better materials, and the sewing pattern so that I can make my son his very own stuffed stegosaurus.

Hope you all have a very merry Christmas!

Originally posted by ShadedMJ:

... Had another one that is in progress: Neighbors puppy ...

Puppy liked the gift. Took it to bed to finish eating later.