What Is The Best Christmas Present You Received As A Child And Why?

I got the same thing every year, a pair of slippers, and a barbie doll. I hated barbie, so I never played with it. When you come from a large family, it isn't easy to have all the things that you want, so I never said anything. I was just happy to have my mother.

I would have to say as a child my favorite christmas gift was the year me and my brothers and my parents went to Pennsylvania to visit my grandmother . Especially since about three years later she would leave this earth while visiting us at are home in Virginia.

My favorite gift was the gift of family.

For me it was a train. My dad bought me a h/o scaled locomotive replica of an old Southern Pacific Railroad engine that puffed real smoke. My dad worked for that particular railroad but I don't believe that was why. As a child I kept that interest and acquired a couple more along the way. Not too sure why I say that the train was it other than that one sticks out in my mind stronger than the rest. As a man now of 44 years, I still can remember the simplistic life and what a simple gesture of giving to a child ..........well, the impact of a memory filled with all the original charged thrill and excitement. Well no, not as when I first found it set up and running throughout our families Christmas gifts, but I do still remember all of the "hooplah" as if it were only yesterday when I ride that memory out. The mind is a very powerful thing, a storage if you will. Thank you for taking me down that road again.