Sometime in the fall, we found out that Dave would be coming home from Viet Nam on R&R (rest and relaxation) for Christmas. We were all so happy and excited about that because we missed him a lot. The missing is 10 times harder when it is on a holiday, especially Christmas. Dave had shipped my Christmas present to Vi's house because he thought I might peak at it. lol
I might have peaked. I did all of the Santa shopping and got everything all wrapped and ready. By the time he got home the tree was up, the house was decorated and gifts were under the tree. Danny was so excited because he missed his dad so much, he could hardly wait! Laura didn't care one way or another because she was still a one year old baby. We didn't know exactly when he would get in because he was going to try to get a military hop (military take priority if there is an empty seat). Keep in mind there were no cell phones in the seventies. He was going to call me when he got to the Minot airport. However, he got there the middle of the night and he didn't want me to get the kids out of their warm beds and take them out in the cold to come get him. He said he would just take a cab. It seemed like it took forever for that taxi to get him home to us, but he finally made it. It was going to be a great Christmas!
Christmas morning was so much fun, it always is when you have a small child who still believes in Santa Clause. Danny was ecstatic, Santa had brought him exactly what he wanted (Santa is very smart that way) and quite a few other gifts as well. And it was so nice that Dave was home to enjoy it with us.
My gift that year was my set of Noritake China. I got it all washed up and we used them for our turkey dinner that afternoon. Everyone was coming to our house for dinner because we had so much more room than his parents. Vi did the turkey and dressing and brought it over when it had about an hour more to cook---got the house all "smelly" that way. Grandma Widmayer was able to join us that year also. They had brought her into town from Granville. Grandma Widmayer was Vi's mother, Dave's grandmother, Danny and Laura's great grandma.
Overall everything went great and it was a wondeful Christmas. Everything was good in our world!
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I bet that was a great Christmas! Him being home was even better than the china, I'm sure. Is that the china set you still have?
ReplyDeleteYes. It's the same set and it's the set I want you to have once I'm gone for sentimental reasons.
ReplyDeleteOh yah! I've always wanted that set. I just didn't know where it originated. Now it'll be even more special.
ReplyDeleteYes they are special. Your dad bought those and shipped them from Viet Nam. It is beautiful china.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember this Christmas in particular, but it sounds like one of the greatest we ever had. I need to pull out the video and see if we have some of it.
ReplyDeleteI remember the one when dad was unable to be there for Christmas my Senior year of High School was very disappointing, even though we had other family members.
The home movies we tried taking didn't turn out because we didn't have a light on the camera.
ReplyDeleteWhy did you comment under Tracy's name for the next three posts?
Previous post names Tracy was Dan as I'm sure everyone figured out. Laptop was still logged in as me from when I worked on my blog.
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