To get you all in the Christmas mood this Flashback Friday, here is a little Christmas story from the past involving my brother and one of my sisters.
For some
reason, Billy always held a special place in his heart for Sarah. Maybe it was because she was the youngest and
he was the oldest. I really don’t know.
Anyway,
Sarah loved it when M & M’s came in a new color: green. She would always pick out as many green ones as she could find. We all let her because she couldn’t have been
more than three or four years old. She
was cute then.
One day all
the green M&M’s began disappearing! It seemed like there were hardly any, if any at all, in the bags that
Grandma brought us. Most of us didn’t
think too much about it; we just wanted candy. Chocolate was a staple in our house. More and more bags had only one or two green candies in them. Mom said that they probably didn’t make a
whole bunch because they were new and green M&M’s were a novelty.
Time went
by and no more thought was given to the green M&M’s.
At least until Christmas day.
We were all
busy unwrapping our gifts when we heard Sarah scream a happy scream. We all looked in her direction. Billy was sitting next to her with a beaming
smile on his face. Sarah held a canning
jar full of green M&M’s in her hands.
Billy, with
mom’s permission, had first dibs on the bags of M&M’s. He had picked out
all of the green ones and saved them for Sarah’s present.
This was
truly one of those gifts that the thought way outweighed the price tag. Even after all these years I still remember
it. This was truly one of Billy’s
shining moments!
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