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[jackiejj]

This was the year we stayed in Clovis, New Mexico, instead of traveling to Oklahoma for Christmas, because Mother was pregnant with my sister Janice, who would be born on January 5

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[trexphile]

I love it :)

[jackiejj]

Good morning! I was just processing this post when I got a phone call, so I've added some words...this was the Christmas when my sister Janice was two weeks away from being born!

[halfmoon_mollie]

this is so sweet. Look at you, grown up big sister. and only you could mention Hark the Herald Angels Sing and pickles in the same sentence.

[jackiejj]

My teacher was Miss Powell, liked art and taught us to draw faces with hearts for lips, which infuriated my mother.

Miss Powell also taught us how to draw trees by placing V's here and there to make forked tree limbs.

I remember the first day Mother came home from the hospital with Janice. I ran all the way home from school to see the new baby.

She was beautiful, and had a bassinet with lace on the outside. The house smelled like powder, and Janice was so round and tiny!

Kate and I will be going to Janice's for Christmas morning this year, but on that long ago day I had to hold her so carefully. She had on a white new nightgown with a string at the bottom...

[halfmoon_mollie]

my youngest brother is three years younger than I am and I cannot remember him being a 'baby' like you remember your sister Janice. I'm glad you will be with her on Christmas, you and Kate.

[vocalista001]

Such a sweet memory. I remember when my little sister came home from the hospital too. I was 5 1/2. The smells of a baby always included powder back then.

[_lethe_]

Such bright eyes! (And short sleeves, brrrr!)

[jackiejj]

Yeah! The house must have been very warm, because outside we had had a heavy snowfall.

[millysdaughter]

Was your dad in the Air Force then?

[jackiejj]

No, he was an architect, and never was in the armed forces--he had gone to enlist and was pulled out because his work was considered vital to the war effort.

[millysdaughter]

I think of Clovis as having very little besides the Air Force base and the stockyard, but I guess all of those buildings did need an architect to draw up the plans.

[jackiejj]

To be honest, I never asked, and now it's too late, to know what Dad worked on or where in Clovis.

[collie222]

You were both so cute! Your Christmas memory makes me feel so nostalgic!

[jackiejj]

Tomorrow morning, Janice and Kate and I are driving up to my other sister's house in Kingsport, and my brother will meet us there.

We are exchanging gifts, since we can't be together on exactly Christmas morning.