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A Grapefruit Box Full of Christmas Memories, Part II

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Many years ago, when my mom was involved in the PTA at Van Sciver School, my sister and I helped to make handcrafted ornaments that were sold at the school fundraisers, like the Santa’s Secret Shop, a little in-school event held in the library that offered inexpensive gifts for students to purchase for their parents “in secret.” Ornaments made using simple objects like pine cones, clothes pins,

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A Grapefruit Box Full of Christmas Memories, Part I

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While putting up the Zeigler Christmas tree last week - and then taking it ALL DOWN to remove and restring the lights that inexplicably went out after it was all tested, set up and in place, and then putting it all up AGAIN - I couldn’t help but think back over the decades of Christmases and all the loved ones and special memories that are forever represented in the collectio