Xmas has always been very special to me and my memories of xmas are  very strong indeed, because my Mother and Father were very poor and couldnt buy us much i treasured what we had then, we would go carol singing on xmas eve then go to Midnight Mass and we never slept that night , we got up on xmas morning to find a brown paper bag for each of us my two sisters and two brothers In that bag was a bar of chocolate a apple and a tangerine, and we got either a Book a three coloured lamp or skates ! but we loved xmas so much so it didn't matter that others got nicer gifts we were happy , then  my Parents split up so we all went into Convents me and my Sisters to Nazareth House Convent and my Brothers to St Vincent de Pauls, this is why i love xmas so much  xxxxxxxxMorgan