We would celebrate Christmas Eve, that was the beginning of our holidays. As family we thought it was great. We always had the traditional prune soup, a tradition of the German heritage. Rounding off the menu we had coffee cake nuts and candy was a treat. Christmas eve and Christmas day was the only time we had candy and nuts for the holidays. It wasn’t like today that one could have candy every day of the week if we so desired.
 
The Christmas tree was decorated with popcorn chains also green and red chains that we made at school, plus a dozen of ornaments. We lit the tree with candles which we could only burn for a short while it was never long enough for us children.
 
We fortunate to get one or two toys, which I remember getting a little china tea set. During the day I was playing with them on the chair, while moving the chair I accidentally slated the chair and half of the dishes slid off and broke. That was the end of my toy for the year, of course there were tears.
 
Our school program was also a highlight for us since we children were the performers. If the weather was good maybe we would get to go to church. The snow and country roads kept us pretty house bound.