One of my favorite Christmas memories / Mom
Christmas, 2006 - I so miss Brian and wish that he was here with Michael & me opening Christmas presents in Greenville, SC. I wish I was cooking one of his favorite meals. However, I am thinking of past Christmas' with Brian and would like to share a wonderful Christmas memory:
Michael and I were lving in Jamestown, PA at The Farm (as we fondly called this home). Re-membering our life at The Farm is so special to us. We were blessed by Esther & Richard McCloskey to have this experience.
Brian's Christmas cache of gifts must have been a little short as I told Michael that I wanted to give Brian another present but could not think of what to give him. We thought about it for a while and came up with the idea of giving him our loose change jar. We had no idea of how much money it contained, but it was a big plastic pretzel jar filled with coins.
Can't remember whether it was Christmas 2000 or Christmas 2001; but we celebrated Christmas there with many including Melinda & Jan. In addition to our beloved Cloudy, we had another little kitten, Pepper. The last of Brian's gifts was the change jar. To our surprize, he was absolutely thrilled with it. After Christmas dinner, he sat on the floor, dumped-out the coins and began counting, calculating and filling coin rolls. His jar of coin gifts amounted to $142.00. He was so happy. It is such a great memory to envision him in front of the fireplace counting those coins with the help of Aunt Melinda and Uncle Mark.
Brian, we love and re-member you, Christmas 2006 and Always.
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