This year we didn't do gifts but did get together @ my Brothers. Had a wonderful dinner, prime rib (I made.MMnnn!) Ham & all the fixins, snacks my ice cream hot buttered rum batter + spiced rum & PIE! He got out the safe w/Dads medals & family records, baptisms, Grandparents marriage certs, birth certs SS cards, union cards.. Mom's work history..MOM & Dad had EVERY important type paper w names & dates. Ken, Gayle & I compared our perceptions of things in our childhoods. What would be my great grandmother was hauled off to the loony bin by people in white coats! No surprise there... :roll: As we talked we were able to put together pieces of the family puzzle, who had talked about whom..My grandmother had been disowned by her family for marrying Grandpa, apparently he was too "white".A great evening for us siblings. Enough time has passed since losing both parents, it was healing & wonderful. We are no longer feeling like such orphans, feeling a little more grown up! J