Atypical & Awesome “Merry Christmas Eve”

We finally have a minute to breathe. Ladt night, we visited The Sugar Plum Tree a really sweet tradition revived in our current hometown. Christmas brings forth much nostalgia so I leave you with a poem I wrote a few years ago:

Christmas of 78

We’ll put the Carpenters on the record player; light up the fiberoptic tree

Pour a mug of eggnog; watch the Waltons on tv

Let’s gather round the fondue pot; spread that retro holiday cheer

Cause deep in our hearts we know it’s been a very good year

God bless the Christmas of 78

It seems so simple now

How I miss those old school days

That just slipped away some how

We can ride in the back of the station wagon to grandma’s house tonight

Where we can eat fruitcake and flip through the tv guide

Maybe take a walk around the neighborhood check out the yard displays

Bubble lights in windows, plastic nativities and Santa’s sleigh

God bless the Christmas of 78

It seems so simple now

How I miss those old school days

That just slipped away some how

Grandma got a new stove, so down the hill on a cardboard box we go

Oh, how things seem so magical when you look through the rearview

So good tidings to all and Merry Retro Christmas to you!

Carmen Melton Bennett 11/30/18 😊