A personal reflection on the meaning of Christmas, intertwined with memories of family, childhood, and the poignant loss of a father during the pandemic. The author shares heartwarming stories of childhood Christmases spent in a close-knit family, celebrating with simple joys and the loving presence of parents and extended relatives.
Christmas is always a special time of year - to me it means Santa Claus, the happy faces of the innocent, precious children and grown ups actually being pleasant and nice to each other for a change.
I can still remember the last conversation I had with my Dad standing at the front door of his house in wonderful form despite the pandemic and days later he was in hospital for a life or death operation which he never survived. I can remember some of my earliest Christmases being washed in a plastic tub in front of the open fire and my mother Carmel putting the best clothes on me and my sisters Geraldine , Marie and Betty .
There used to be a fabulous Woolworths store in Drogheda then and another shop across the road which also had all the toys.
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