Christmas at Grandma’s
Posted on January 8, 2008 - Filed Under Family history, Pulskamps Today
Each Christmas everyone in our extended family (including those we’ve “adopted”) tries their best to make it over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house. It is always a fantastic and chaotic party! There is always lots of food and even more great friends and family to visit with. There’s always some new people to enjoy too as everyone wants to be adopted into our fun and crazy family. It’s always loud and a bit chaotic, and while to some this could be a little stressful, I love it. It’s loud, noisy and chaotic because everyone is having so much fun and we’re all so creative at doing it. When I see this I just feel so lucky to have been born into this family.
This year is our second without Grandpa, and whereas last year it didn’t seem possible to even have a Christmas without him, this year it was better. And this year Santa brought the grand kids a memory of Grandpa to take home with them. Many of us got presents wrapped with a monkey fist knot that Grandpa had tied while teaching Girl Scouts how to tie them. Grandpa was big on knot tying and this was one of his favorite knots. You can see one around my neck in the picture of Grandma and me. Many of us, including me, also received a book that belonged to Grandpa’s Father, Henry John Pulskamp. Along with the books came a note explaining a bit about him and a bit Xeroxed from an actual letter Henry had written to his sister after the death of their mother. My book is called “Arts – Crafts Lamps How to Make Them” Copyright 1911. I can’t speak for everyone, but as for me, I enjoyed Santa’s present this year much more than usual. Some of my cousins received things other than books but I can’t remember what. At Grandma’s we open one present at a time and you have to sit in the blue chair in front of everyone to do so. It took a good two hours or so; needless to say I missed some of it. So thank you Santa!
I’ve put some pictures from Christmas day in the Pulskamp.org photo gallery at the link below!
http://www.pulskamp.org/photos/v/2007Christmas/
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