Posts in Series for 2007 Christmas Giveaway
- 20-something days of Christmas [RULES]
- Favorite Holiday Movie
- Favorite Holiday Album
- Favorite Holiday Appetizer
- Favorite Holiday TV Show
- Favorite Holiday Gift You Gave
- Favorite Holiday Beverage
- Favorite Holiday Song
- Favorite Holiday Anthology
- Favorite Holiday Side Dish
- Christmas Trees
- Favorite Holiday Gift Received
- Favorite Holiday Tradition
- Favorite Gift Book
- Before or After?
- Favorite Holiday Dessert
- What Will Be in Your Christmas Stocking?
- Upcoming Titles
- Favorite Cookie
- Best Present You Received This Year
- Stockings or No Stockings?
That’s an easy one, isn’t it? Or maybe not. 
I know if I really, really thought hard about it I could come up with a dozen, at least. But the one I’m remembering right now is a small keepsake Christmas tree ornament. It’s from Hallmark and it’s a beautiful porcelain doll in a burgundy Victorian dress. I was about seven, I think, when I saw it in a store and begged my mother for it. I remember thinking that I’d never wanted anything more in my life. She told me no and I cried for hours after we left the store. I was so heartbroken. Devastated. I thought about that tiny ornament for days after we left, and when I received it as a Christmas present that year I thought it was the best gift ever. I was given a ton of great stuff that Christmas morning, but nothing held a candle to that little doll. In fact, all these years later, I still have her. She hangs year-round on a peg attached to a decorative shelf near my front door. I don’t have any of my other gifts from that year.
What about you?
Honestly it was a healthy Barnes and Noble gift certificate. I am sooo easy.
on December 27th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Crystal B.,
Email me your addy, and I’ll drop a book/promo pack in the mail to you.
Sylvia
on December 13th, 2007 at 12:46 am
my favorite present is a tie. I received my first engagement ring in 1984 and a replace ring in 2004. An upgrade if you will. lol didn’t upgrade the hubby just about have him like i want him now
on December 12th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
“Happy Holidays!” My “Chatty Cathy” Doll! Thanks,Cindi
on December 12th, 2007 at 9:11 am
My husband gave me a beautiful, small emerald necklace, the first x-mas after we were married, 30 years ago. We didn’t have a lot of money, we were paying off school loans etc. This past summer my 24 yo daughter wore it for her wedding …”something borrowed”. I really treasure that necklace.
on December 12th, 2007 at 4:16 am
Mine are the gifts over the years from my nieces and nephews, the first they made in school - I have clay ashtrays, picture frames, sand bottles and other decorated bottles and trivets. Still use them and they came out pretty good, budding artists, lol, inherited from my mother and aunts I guess (that gene pretty much skipped my generation).
on December 12th, 2007 at 12:05 am
How to choose the best present hmmm, well anything my kids make me of course, oh and the very comfy mattress set my wonderful husband gave me last yr.
on December 11th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
My favorite gift was a quilt made by my grandmother before she died.
on December 11th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
I had to think about this one - my family isn’t so big on the Christmas gifts [which makes me very sad] - but… I *loved* this little doll I got when I was little- a purple Turtle Tots doll I named Trisha.
I guess that dates me.
on December 11th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
My favorite Christmas present was a German Shepherd tree ornament that my mom got for me. It looks so much like my dog.
on December 11th, 2007 at 9:44 pm