 Readers' Christmas Memories
We asked for your favorite Christmas or Hanukkah memories, and your answers were both fun and touching, revealing a love for the holidays. ➤ Kathleen from Ormond Beach shared her favorite Christmas gift. "In 1951, at age 6, I asked Santa for a bicycle. On Christmas morning, I opened my presents, and no bicycle. I went into the bathroom and cried. A while later, Dad asked me to go into the basement to get his slippers. In front of the workbench was a 26-in. turquoise and navy blue Mercury bike. I sat on the step and cried until my parents came down. I couldn't reach the seat for 5 years, but it didn't matter! I rode that bike through high school. Best Christmas ever." ➤ Gail from Lakeland shared that her birthday is Dec. 25. "As a small child, my mother would bake me a birthday cake on Christmas Eve and leave it out for Santa. When I woke up in the morning, a piece was missing. I thought I was so special because Santa ate some of my birthday cake. Santa and I ate birthday cake together for years." ➤ Cindy from Sanford shared that she and her family have a tradition of giving pajamas as a Christmas Eve gift. ➤ Joy shared memories of her family celebrating in a 19-foot travel trailer and how her mother managed to make it special. ➤ Susan in Fort Myers gathers 60 of her relatives each year for skeet shooting, while Pamela in Pensacola fondly remembers water skiing on Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland. ➤ Jen had the dog lovers in our crew crying with her story about Greg, who was found by the side of the road in New Smyrna Beach this season. He's now at Southeast Volusia Humane Society, awaiting a needed hernia surgery, dressed in his Christmas pajamas. Jen and all of us at Flyover Florida are hoping Greg finds a new home for Christmas. | 
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