The Genealogy Search

When we were little, every Christmas my mother would have us listen to "The Cinnamon Bear" radio show.  We would listen almost every day starting after Thanksgiving to the adventures of Paddy o'Cinnamon and siblings Judy and Jimmy Barton.  The Barton's lost their Silver Star that belonged on their Christmas tree.  The radio show takes you through the adventure as Jimmy and Judy try to recover the star in Maybeland.  They run into the Crazy Quilt Dragon, The Wintergreen Witch, Penelope the Penguin and many others. I know my brother and I would listen attentively while the show aired - it was a station in Chicago that replayed the original.  The show originally broadcast in December of 1937.  The radio show is available at  Cinnamon Bear .   “The Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories (ACCM) allows you to share your family’s holiday history twenty-four different ways during December! Learn more at  http://adventcalendar.geneabl...

Memories of our holiday tree............. First and foremost were the German glass ornaments that we were not allowed to touch until we were in high school.  Always high up on the tree - the ornaments were collected by my mother's family.  I knew they were old and special to my mother and quite frankly they scared me.  I knew if one of them broke we were in big trouble. One of the oddest things on our tree was our baby rattles.  Mom saved each of our rattles and used them as ornaments.  I don't know where my brother's are, I have my rattle on my tree.  I wish I would have thought to save my children's rattles to add to the tree.  Perhaps I can add my grandchildren's to mine one day. My mother also added Hallmark ornaments to our tree.  She started buying one for each of us yearly.  When we moved out of the house we had a few ornaments to call our own. My favorite ornament was not a Hallmark, it is a Fozy Bear ornament my mo...