One Sentence archive - tag: "Christmas"

Clearly dumb AND poor

I thought it a bit odd, but truly believed my mom when she told me that Santa billed parents for all of the toys he left us.

tags: Christmas Santa childhood lies being poor [add]

2009-05-20 14:12:33 / Rating: 237 /

Justjess

For Christmas, my two year old son received two toy monster trucks which he promptly named Comfort and Joy.

tags: toys names Christmas toddler [add]

2009-02-09 14:15:57 / Rating: 425.5 /

Sorcha

The ultimate conversation stopper award belongs to my Grampa, who silenced the Christmas dinner chatter with “…and you never saw a dog die so fast in all your life”.

tags: humour shocking grandfather Christmas [add]

2009-01-29 16:23:43 / Rating: 296 /

Rae

There should have been one more stocking hanging from the mantle, a few more ornaments on the tree with your name on the back, and a few more brightly wrapped presents addressed to you.

tags: baby brother death Christmas I miss you [add]

2008-12-25 23:00:17 / Rating: 287.25 /

Carrie

The one catch with secret lovers is explaining who the Christmas present is from to your boyfriend.

tags: cheating Christmas oh shit [add]

2008-12-18 14:41:53 / Rating: 186.5 /

a little bird

My Jewish family had a lovely Christmas dinner with a Muslim family talking about art, architecture, wine, and the world and yet there is still violence in the Middle East.

tags: dinner family violence Christmas [add]

2008-06-11 13:09:27 / Rating: 375 /

UnlikelyMom

Imagine my two girls as they opened up their exciting Christmas toy, squeezed goop into molds, put the mold into the oven, then waited, and waited, and waited, realizing that there was no heat, no light bulb, and would be no bug - just a bunch of disappointing goo.

tags: childhood toys Christmas humor [add]

2008-01-25 13:21:04 / Rating: 263 /