[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Joseph Cirou]

Growing up we were always taught to visit the crib in church--which was the
Christmas Scene. After all the trees had been put away, it stayed out until
February 2.

Joe

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> LOL, Joe!  When I hear 'crib,' I think of a baby bed, so I was trying to
> imagine making one out of rocks! I figured it out pretty quickly, though...
>
> > On Dec 23, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > About the only thing like that that I had was the crib my father started
> to
> > make in 30's (going out and picking up rocks; using oil cloth etc) They
> > bought a small set from Germany it may have been my grandmother's I don't
> > know the history of it. After we sold the house I took that crib which
> was
> > in several canisters and a large container to Christ the Redeemer where
> the
> > sacristan (who was a dressmaker) fashioned a gorgeous display with
> > multitudinous colored cloths. It remained there when I moved to Atlanta.
> >
> > I still have a few of our ornaments from the 40's that I put out every
> > year. I guess you'd call them folk art.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> >>
> >> When I was cleaning out my family home in NW Wisconsin in 1998
> >>> after my mother died at 98, I came upon a birthday card that had
> >>
> >> When finally going through all my mother's cartons when we moved, I came
> >> across envelopes of the Christmas cards my grandparents received in
> 1929,
> >> 1930 and 1931. I know they moved at the end of the year those years, so
> >> knowing my grandmother, she put the cards in the envelopes each year
> >> intending to update her Christmas Card list, but never got "a round
> tut."
> >>
> >> As they saved Christmas wrapping for re-use (heaven help my sisters or
> >> myself if we tore the paper on a present!) they also saved the From/To
> >> tags. at the bottom of the Christmas Tree Ornament box are dozens of
> these
> >> from/to from relatives who are long dead.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Jim
> >>
>