Shopping..

Well Thanksgiving we were all sick except for our little one. So we watched the parade, ate at home, and slept. Not big on football.
HATE To shop so did shopping online that's not so bad it's quiet and peaceful.

When I was little, every Year before Christmas (we didn't have black friday then) My dad would pack us all in the LTD and off we'd go to town, but it was Friday Night and as I recall the Friday before Christmas. We'd stop at Ritz the candy store, and Murphy's, and the Shoe Shop where his sister worked, and Buyer's Fair and at the time a Special treat was the Christian Book Store for us -- that was all our small town had. It was a place to see friends, and neighbors. Farmers went but Only on Fridays when they got their milk check.
We only got candy at Christmas time so going to The Ritz was special...I can still smell the fudge and the cinnamon candy canes.

Years later when we were growing up those days quit. Why I guess cause town and shopping malls came into the area. The Small Town scene was gone.

Every Black Friday Dad would wake us up at 4 a.m. "Come on Gotta feed cows so we can go." I think it was HIS favorite time of the year. We'd Shop all day first at the Mall then at Hills the next town over. He'd end the day by showing us all the christmas lights in the town where he worked. We'd sing carols on the way home usually snowing.

My husband HATES Crowds and shopping. I was the first one to ever get him in a mall period. And waking him up before 8 a.m. ha ha ha..So I shop on line with a cup of tea in my hand. It was quiet and peaceful and memories of past days came flooding the mind.

Our store online is getting busy finally. Today my hubby is combining the last of the corn. The relatives are still down the road but they are still shopping -- yeech 3 days of shopping they do I couldn't handle that..

But I do wish we could start a tradition for our son, perhaps without knowing it we have -- the Train Store we go to everyyear has turned into a Christmas thing for our kid and he loves it he never wants to leave. What else could we do???

Happy Holidays