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10 Days till Christmas — Memories

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Christmas Canada Memories

By Janet C.

Hey Boo! These is a sum­mis­sion for the Christ­mas con­test.
 
The fol­low­ing is true.
 
First I have to say that my fam­ily and I are very very close.. although the we are seper­ated by the miles we talk 2–3 times a day.
 
Back in Christ­mas 2005, my hubby & I booked air­line tick­ets to visit our fam­i­lies in New­found­land (we live in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario). We only informed my brother, my Aunt Joan and hubby’s sis­ter. The rest of our fam­ily DID NOT know any of the Christ­mas plans.
 
I informed my par­ents that we sent our Christ­mas gifts to the fam­ily via Canada Post (but of couse we kept them until we flew in on Decem­ber 21). My Dad would visit the mail box every­day and no gifts..he went as far and going to the Canada Post post office and inform­ing them there SHOULD be a par­cel for him. but there was no pare­cel.  My Mom on the other hand was not really in the christ­mas spir­its, she really wanted to see me and my hus­band for the hol­i­days. We explained to her that we just couldn’t get time off work and all the flights we booked up. (Mean­while we booked the flights back in Sep­tem­ber of that year).
 
So on Dece­mebr 21 we arrived in the after­noon and my brother picked us from the air­port. The plan was to suprise my fam­ily at my Aunt Joan’s. My Aunt Joan had invited all my fam­ily at her house for sup­per, which is noth­ing out of the ordi­nary. My hubby and I landed and we went to my Aunt Joan’s  We called while in route, Aunt Joan never let on that it was us on the phone. So after sup­per every­one was watch­ing the local 6:00 news (in their base­ment reck­room). We came in the front upstairs door and my Aunt Joan said to my fam­ily so that must be her son com­ing home for some­thing that he for­got. ;)
 
Hubby and I went down­stairs and walked into the room and my par­ents went into shock!! :0
 
My Dad started to cry like a  baby!! (the last time I saw my Dad cry was when my Grand­fa­ther died 8 years ago)  My Mom sat up and sat down — she didn’t know what to with her­self. Both my par­ents couldn’t believe that we were there. At one point I thought my Mom had a heart attack for the suprise we gave her! She went all white and couldn’t speak!! Every­one started to cry, everyone was sooooooo happy and over­joyed!!! Mom then said “Oh I must go home and get home and get ready for Christ­mas!” You never seen a women move so fast to get home and pre­pare Christ­mas “tasks.
 
We gave the Christ­mas gifts on Christ­mas day and my dad started to laugh… rememe­ber­ing all the times we trav­elled to the post office for the Christ­mas parcels. :)
 
Hubby and I left my Aunt’s house and started to vis­it­ing our friends and fam­i­lies that night. We sur­prised so many indi­vid­u­als that night, but sur­pris­ing my par­ents was the best!!
 
That was one of the best Christ­mases ever!!!!
 
Thanks!
Janet

[pic source Gre­gor Halb­wedl]

19 Responses to “10 Days till Christmas — Memories”

  3. carlycanadian

    Oh what a lovely story & sur­prize! The hol­i­days are the best when fam­ily can be all together! LOL, at your dad going to CP to find his gift! Cute!

  8. ukonjacki

    Made me cry too. I sur­prised my mom last yr on her 60th birth­day and the sit­u­a­tion was very sim­i­lar and received the same reac­tion. Great story– Thanks for sharing!

  11. mrsporras

    As I am far away from home with my hus­band, I wish I could give my par­ents such a sur­prise, in my case I can­not book tick­ets any more, they are all sold out.

    I visit this site from abroad and send the infor­ma­tion to my mother who does not use a com­puter. I love it when she gets the sam­ples that I have sent her from here or let her know about sales.

    Thank you for a lovely story.

  12. Steve

    Janet,

    I must admit that you brought a smile and dare I say a tear in my eye.

    All the trips that your father was mak­ing at Canada Post they must of been so annoyed by his actions. That is just too funny.

    Enjoayable story. Thanks for sharing

    Merry Xmas Janet

  14. Zay

    What a great story! Thanks so much for shar­ing. Happy Hol­i­days to you and to all :)

  16. LuLu

    Aww what a sweet story! Made me cry from the sweetness…it’s what Christ­mas should be about;)

  17. Kris

    Geez, that was a lovely story. Sto­ries like this make me cry and wish my fam­ily is just like yours. My fam­ily prob­a­bly wouldn’t even care if I just dropped dead right this moment. You are so lucky to have your amaz­ing fam­ily. That was really sweet and won­der­ful of you and your hus­band to make them so happy. Happy Hol­i­days everyone ♥

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