Christmas is coming......

[glennsteely]

Ive only spent one Christmas at the lake, when I was little and we still had our cottage. The snow was up to the windows and our back porch roof had collapsed from the weight. It still is a fond memory, Christmas in the Lakes Region is a little different than the outside world. You guys are Christmas people ! ( Rumor has it that despite rising property prices and taxes Olde Chris Cringle is going to settlement on his newly aqquired Governers Island property next week. ) I guess you guys will have all the luck with new toys this year ! Does anyone want to share some Christmas memories on the forum ? I would really like to re live some of yours with you.......GS :)

[Waterbaby]

I don't recall ever spending Christmas at the Lake, but I have a Thanksgiving one! My parents used to have a 36' Lyman Cruiser which we docked at Wolfeboro Yach Club. I remember one Thanksgiving cruising around the Lake in it, while dinner was cooking in the galley. Nice cool, fresh lake air and the smells of the roasting turkey and all of the side dishes emitting from the cabin....... When we got too chilled from that fresh air we'd go get cozy in the warmth of the cabin........... That was one of the best Thanksgiving dinners I've ever eaten!

[glennsteely]

That sounds like fun......how was the stuffing?

[Waterbaby]

Stuffing was probably the best I ever had, along with the rest of the dinner, lol. I wish more people would post on this thread, I bet there are some great holiday memories out there!

[glennsteely]

I love to hear and share memories of the lake and surrounding areas, maybe people are just not in the spirit right now........Waterbaby, thanks for responding. :look:

[upthesaukee]

When Mimi & Papa (my Mom & Dad) were alive and our kids were small, we would come up to what is now our house (Wife and I). We had an Fisher cast iron wood stove, and Dad would stoke it up and put the firescreen in. In the glow of a fire, we would have coffee, hot chocolate, and usually cinnamon buns followed by watching the kids open their gifts (which we had brought up with us). We then wondered how we were going to get those gifts plus the gifts from Mom & Dad for the kids and us into the car and get them back home. Somehow it all worked out. If we had snow, it was off for a quick run on the snowmobiles down to the field where Precious Gardens is on Rte 11 in Alton, then back home for the Christmas turkey, out to go sliding (I think I may have hogged the sled from the kids :D ), back to the house, change into some dry clothes, and then fall asleep in the warmth of that woodstove, now closed up and putting out some serious heat.

Mimi and Papa are now gone, and it's us that have the grandchildren come here. Christmas rotates around to different houses, but it is still the same fun to watch the kids open gifts, and still fun to realize now that we are older, that Christmas indeed has a gift giving meaning, it also has a deeper meaning, and becomes a second chance to reflect on things for which we can be thankful.

Seasons greetings to all, and may a smile given to others and one received by you carry the same warmth as that woodburning stove.

[Lady Di]

in the Lakes Region stands out in my mind. When my kids were babies, and my sister's kids were babies, and we were married to brothers, we had Christmas at the old homestead out in East Wolfeboro. Our parents and grandparents and little sister came up from Mass. There were many card tables set up for the little ones, and there was a wood stove right there in the dining room. The house was huge, and had wide pine floors. We retired to the living room for dessert, and there was a huge fireplace in there.
It had been snowing most of the day, so we all, minus the older folks, bundled up and went sledding on the front lawn. The next day was, of course, cold, clear and windy. The snow was up to the dormers, so we went sledding again, only this time out the bedroom windows.

A few years later, we had Christmas at our house in Gilford.

I wish I owned that house in East Wolfeboro. I drove by it when I was up there in September. $$$$$ now, for sure. I don't have that many good memories of living there, but I suppose that Christmas, when there were so many of us and 4 generations, was the best.

[GWC...]

Do no forget to check the radar (http://www.noradsanta.org/)... :blush:

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[glennsteely]

GWC, thanks, my daughter will love this.......GS :)