Merry Christmas!

Here's wishing all of you a safe and Merry Christmas! 

Thanks for stopping by here regularly to see what's going on, and for leaving all of the great comments that make it all more interesting and fun. 

I'll be taking my usual holiday break. It's a nice breather for me from the pressure to create content five days a week. The break also frees me up to spend a little time working on some more elaborate posts that have been 'post'-poned for a long time.

Anyway, thanks again and I'll be back in time for the usual New Year's Eve hi-jinks.

I still can't believe it's going to be 2026. When I did get old? 

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I'd like to send a special Merry Christmas greetings to my three siblings. 

Since I currently have custody of the Brady family photo albums, I thought it would be fun to post a picture from the first Christmas that each of us experienced.

Here's my sister at the time of her first Christmas in 1955. (In 1954 she was only a few months old when the holidays hit.)

Three years later, my older brother Ken (First Baby in Lorain for 1958) was experiencing Christmas 1958. My sister is thinking about something.

A year later I made the scene in time for Christmas 1959. Hey, where's my yellow sweatshirt?

And two years after that, my younger brother made his appearance in time for Christmas 1961. I'll bet he's wondering what that thing is he's holding – a wheel with a suction cup on it? Or a horn? Meanwhile, I was leaning on a box containing a Tonka Toys Fisherman truck (appropriate, since Dad and Grandpa Bumke were both fishermen). My sister just unwrapped some Flintstones Giant Checkers.

Happy days. Wish I could do them all over again someday.