December 2023 Giveaway

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289 thoughts on “December 2023 Giveaway”

  2. Mary Carmen

    My favorite winter holiday memory was going to see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes.

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  8. Tyeshanae

    I don’t have a singular favorite winter memory. When you lose a parent, all of the winter memories that you had with them become your favorite.

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  10. L.E. Mathews

    My favorite winter holiday memory would be going to the forest with grandpa and my dad to cut down the Christmas tree. I still remember the first time they allowed me to cut the tree, I mean, cut it a little because I was still too young to cut it down. lol

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  12. elizabeth miller

    My favorite holiday memory was the last year we drove 20 hours to go and see my grandparents. I was not going to go down that year but decided to go and rove 20 hours with 4 kids to surprise them. When we got there we snuck my granddad aways to a pizza shop (pizza was his favorite) while my aunt took my grandmom out. My grandmother was so protective over him since he had alzheimers and she was a little aggravated when she returned home to see we took him out. But we took him to a pizza place and his reaction was golden…even as bad as his alzheimers was, he knew and you could tell he knew what we were there for. It was such a great last memory for my kids because they got a big kick out of her reaction as well. Sadly he passed shortly after but it is such a great memory that even 15 years later my kids still talk about.

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  17. Amber L Bourland

    Thank you for the chance to win, and for BOOKS!
    I am hoping for a snowy winter so I have plenty of time to just stay home and read- my TBR pile is getting out of hand!

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  19. Lisa

    I love memories of my dear dad on Christmas morning. He loved Christmas so much and made sure to make it extra special each year.

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  20. Liz N.

    My husband and I drove overnight from Texas to Florida to show up at his Granny’s house on Christmas morning and surprise everyone! His mom started crying when she saw us – and tried to open a car door before we even stopped completely!

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  21. Kimmy Ripley

    My daughter was born on December 18th which is exactly one week before Christmas. No better gift in the universe! She is such an incredible kiddo! Blessed!

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  26. Leslie Price

    My favorite winter holiday memory is of the year I spent Christmas in a gorgeous log cabin in Tennessee. I got to enjoy the snow and holiday decor without doing any of the work of decorating myself, and I got to spend a relaxing time reading in front of the fire, enjoying nature, and watching the snow fall from the comfort of the hot tub on the covered deck. Pure bliss!

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  28. Bryan A

    My favorite holiday memory was spending Christmas with my entire family!! That’s very rare, since we live all over the country! Great times and great food!!

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  31. Elizabeth Grady

    My favorite winter holiday memory is when my kids were small. We would go sledding and then come home and toast marshmallows. After that play board games

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  33. kathy m

    Baking cookies and sweets and delivering them to seniors and those who can’t get out on Christmas Eve! A family tradition! Happy holidays and thanks~

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  34. Judy Thomas

    My favourite Winter holiday memories are of my childhood and the gifts my parents would make for us at Christmas. Christmas was awesome with our parents.

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  39. Quentin Crews

    My favorite winter memory is when I went ice skating on the Dutch canals with my father just before I moved to the US for a job.

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  48. Amber Lee Kolb

    My favorite winter memory is going sledding with the dogs and the kids. It’s so much fun and the whole family loves it! Then we get hot cocoa after.

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  49. Eric Wright

    My favorite holiday memories would have to be spending the time getting together with my late grandma and mom’s extended family for Christmas and just having fun, joking around, and enjoying each other’s company.

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  52. Rob Hestar

    My favorite winter holiday was my dad taking me to Colorado for a trip to ski and see snow. It’s the only time I’ve ever seen snow

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  54. Iulia Garaz

    when i was younger i got some candies that i have never have eaten, they had coconut and i enjoyed so much eating them that i went to buy more.

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  59. Kelly

    My favorite Christmas memories are centered around an annual party we threw for my dad’s work staff. There was always delicious food, entertaining games, and laughter to last a lifetime.

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  62. Fran CR

    My favorite winter vacation memory is the years spent with my grandparents in the village with the snow-capped mountains and all of us together by the fireplace while eating hot chocolate.

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  67. Anita L

    I don’t really recall a favorite holiday memory although I can honestly say that ALL holidays were much nicer when I was a kid.

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  80. Anne Bussell

    Hiding under the couch I must have been about 4 or 5 and having my flannel blankie with my little sister and waiting for Santa the smell of the Christmas tree and cookies and the milky smell of my little sister. I am sure Santa showed up.

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  84. Inez Cegelis

    All my fve holiday memories are from childhood. The warmth of being with my parents and family while viewing the lights on houses or visitng relatives. it was wonderful

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  85. Julianna L

    My favorite winter memory is when New York City was buried in a ton of snow in 1966. The schools were closes for a week and the Sanatation department piled up the snow next to my home on the sidwalk. We used this mountain of snow as a snow slide using our snow sleads until it melted when spring came along.

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  86. Theresa C.

    Happy Holidays Bill! I remember living in northern Alberta as a child, and we got so much snow, one year we were truly snowbound – the snow had covered our front door, and my Dad had to tunnel across the yard to the propane tank and light a fire under it so we wouldn’t freeze to death – thank goodness it worked and didn’t blow up 😉

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  92. Kristin Oxendine

    My dad passed away about 8 months ago, so now… all of the previous Christmas’s when he was here with us are my favorite Christmas memories.

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  96. JEANETTE SHEETS

    going to tenn spending time with my grandmother and attending christmas show at church happy holidays bill!!

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  99. Susan

    My favorite Christmas memory was going caroling in the small town I grew up in and the horse driven sleigh rides we would go on in the vast expanse of forest. The forest was very silent and serene on snowy days and all you would hear beside birds chirping were the tiny bells on the horse harness and the clomping of their hooves.

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  110. nora tomlinson

    All my childhood Christmases…the excitement, the cooking, the carols, the train around the tree, relatives piling in, my mother making decorations

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  114. Carolyn D

    Happy Holidays! One of my fondest winter memories was seeing snow for the very first time back in 2010. I live in Florida and have only seen snow twice in my life.

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  115. Lisa Reid

    My favorite Christmas memory was when my kids were little, my parents stayed over and we got snowed in. We all spent the weekend baking Christmas cookies. (even my dad!) I knew then that this would be a special memory.

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  116. Derek Jennings

    My favorite winter holiday memories were baking sugar cookies and decorating them with my Mother when I was growing up.

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  124. Geri M

    One of my favorite holiday memories was my mom making fudge and punch on Christmas Eve. At Midnight, we would all go to Christmas Eve mass.

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  127. Gloria Walshver

    I celebrate Hanukkah the festival of Lights, we would have parties and grab bags for prizes and eat latkes(potato pancakes) and doughnuts those were the days.

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  129. Dawn Jozwiak

    One of my favorite holiday memories is when my son was little and he and I were making cookies for Santa. He was so serious and wanted to make sure they were perfect for him. Then we would watch a Christmas movie before we read a Christmas book together while he was going to sleep.

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  132. Lillian D

    One of my favorite holiday memories was when I was living in Dover, DE and we had the blizzard of 1978! That Christmas I received the play dough hair salon. lol. I loved it!!

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  139. Sherrie Calder

    I think my favorite memory would have to have been when I was a child. My brother was told we didn’t have money for a bike he wanted. However, my parents had it secretly hidden in the kitchen. The look on his face when he found out he really got the bike was one I will never forget.

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  143. SU

    My favourite memory is my little brother playback singing with a crown on his head and bowing until his crown fell. When it didn’t at the fifth demonstration because he had pull it too far down, he pulled it up a tiny bit again so he can drop it again when bowing.
    Hilarious – and we got that on film!

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  144. Patrick M

    My favorite holiday memory is my first one with my gfs family. she used cloves over the whole ham and I had no idea what it was basically almost threw up while every one laughed

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  148. nicole Bowers

    My grandmother Dorothy recently passed away; but, I remember being in the kitchen with her cooking holiday meals, as we talked about life and love and just laughed and laughed!

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  150. Cecilia G

    I come from a BIG family and my most cherished thing at Holidays is everybody being together. Disagreements, hugs, laughter, tears, spills and messes – it’s all memories in the making and I cherish it all.

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  151. Dayvelitsse Gilima

    Thanks for the giveaway. My favorite memory from winter vacation is having invited the whole family to dinner together and spending an unforgettable night.

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  152. Michael Christofield

    Christmas morning with my kids. We do a lot of stuff besides just opening presents, and my wife makes some awesome treats.

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  157. Jessica W.

    I have great memories of my family opening up one present on Christmas Eve and then waking up super early on Christmas.

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  158. MICHAEL A LAW

    My favorite holiday memory is getting the original Nintendo for Christmas and getting Mike Tysons punch out. I miss those days.

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  160. Cindy Merrill

    I had turned five years old on Dec. 5, so my Grandfather said I was in for a special treat on Christmas Eve, the cows in the barn were going to TALK ( This was their reward for giving baby Jesus their hay to sleep on).
    It was all I could talk about. On Christmas eve I couldn’t wait for supper to end, I even turned down my dessert- all I wanted was to get to the barn as fast as I could.
    Well, guess what?
    The cows didn’t say anything. Just as I was turning to leave….. “Helloooooo Cindy” ( Victor? That’s you?) I looked at the yearling bull I had bottle fed when he was a calf. “Gosh, Victor, you sound JUST like my grandfather!”

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  166. Frank Stuart

    I love remembering working in the kitchen with my mother doing the holiday baking. The wonderful smells and the warmness of the air. Everything was so festive and happy. There was Christmas music playing on the record player (dating myself) and we would sing along with the songs. Those memories are some of the few that I have of growing up.

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  173. DeAnna Ball

    My favorite memories growing up is watching. My dad hide my mom’s Christmas gift in the tree and every Christmas. She had a search for it and it was always funny

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  174. Jeff Lammers

    I always loved going to my grandma’s house for Christmas dinner, all of my favorite cousins were there as well.

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  175. Ashley Smith

    My favorite holiday memory is when my mom and I would get together with my aunt, her son and our grandmother on Christmas Eve. We would go shopping at Hills, go eat at our favorite local pizza joint and later drive around looking at all the lights and decorations, while sometimes getting out at the bigger houses that had walk-throughs with music and such. I miss those days!

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  176. Natasha Turner

    My first christmas with my son 12 years ago will always be my favorite! Loved dressing him up as santa clause, he was so cute!

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  182. Mechelle S.

    Thank you! My favorite holiday memory is from when I was a child. I woke up Christmas morning and ran into the living room with my sister and there were two red 10 speed bikes in front of the tree with gold bows on them. They were obviously used but we didn’t care, we could finally ride around the neighborhood with our friends! I’ll never forget that feeling of joy!

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  187. Ruby Garcia

    My favorite winter memory is waiting until midnight on Christmas eve to open gifts at my grandma’s house as a kid.

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  188. Diana Smith Hill

    Favorite memories: The smell of gingerbread cookies an eggnog. Skating at the tower on the ice ……… driving to our grandmothers house with the lights glistening off the snow and the feeling of flannel pajamas in the morning in a cold country house.

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  189. Linnea J

    Going ice skating at the local pond when I was about 5 years old and only having one pair of skates so that me and my sister each had one strapped to a foot.

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  197. Jean Holland

    My favorite winter holiday memory is ice skating for the first time. My brother and I both received ice skates for Christmas. I was eight and he was six. It was hysterical watching him try to stand on skates.

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  201. Linda Beaton

    Fav winter holiday was Arizona and Disneyland with the family. Santa’s sleigh on wheels, no hats, coats or boots…..

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  205. Emily R.

    As a child, each year waking up and finding that Santa had came! When my boys were small, seeing them with the same excitement that Santa had same.

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  206. Ethan M Coats

    Rising in the early Christmas morning to “sneak up” on Santa with my brother will be something I will never forget (we didn’t find him)

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  208. McKnight

    My parents rented a cabin in Mammoth for Christmas. We had 3 days of skiing and it snowed the first night. It was amazing.

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  210. Erin

    The Christmas season i enjoy spending time with family, going to church, making cookies, and seeing the joy when the kids open up their presents!

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  211. Bue

    Merry Christmas, Bill! No winter season here in my country so I haven’t experienced it but someday I will, and I’ll definitely have fun with the snow and create a memorable winter holiday moments with my fam! <3

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  212. João C

    My favorite winter holiday memory is when it started snowing in the place where I life because its something that never happens!

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  214. donateeverything

    We went to a remote beach, powdery white sand, no resorts nearby, very clean and serene. We loved that place that we went a couple more times. Past forward 20 years and the place is now teeming with tourists, hotels, resorts, and a golf course next a levelled field that used to be a beautiful hill facing the long white sandy beach. Smh.

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  216. Debra Oehlberg

    I have lived in Aiken, SC all of my life, and rarely have we seen significant snow, and many years, not even a snowflake. But for those rare Christmas/winters that we did, it felt AMAZING! Snow seems to cleanse the earth and make everything prettier!

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  218. Dylan Dani Oropeza Medina

    My most beautiful Christmas memory was spending it with my grandparents, and Santa would come to give me a gift. I will always remember that.

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  219. Tammy OHagan

    Imagine a mountain retreat, a snow-covered haven where laughter and the scent of freshly fallen snow mingle in the crisp air. That’s the backdrop of my favorite winter memory. Picture a rustic cabin, its fireplace crackling warmly as friends huddle close. Inside, we brewed a concoction of real cocoa, warm milk, and a sprinkle of cinnamon – the elixir of winter happiness.

    Armed with steaming mugs, we ventured outside to a porch overlooking a snowy paradise. The sunset painted the sky in hues of pink and blue, casting a warm glow on the landscape. Amid snowball fights and infectious laughter, the day unfolded into a fairy-tale-like winter wonderland.

    Returning to the cabin, rosy-cheeked and content, we gathered around the fireplace. The crackling fire, soft conversations, and occasional sips of cocoa formed a symphony of winter bliss. As night fell, wrapped in a cozy blanket, I felt grateful for the simple joys that make winter magical – a memory etched in my heart as a treasure, revisited whenever the cold winds whisper tales of that delightful day.

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    1. Cindi Knowles

      When we were young my father always took us to find a tree and he would cut it down. It was always way to big for the living room. So we had tons of ornaments to cover it. I miss those days.

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  229. Pedro L

    I guess it would be the first time it snowed where I live – something that happened only once until now and it was great!

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  239. Desiree G

    My favorite holiday memory has always been our yearly tradition of going to look at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve night!

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  242. Lorri Dockery

    My favorite holiday memory is our first winter snow with our children. We would take them to sledding at the park on the first snowfall. After everyone was cold and tired we would head home for Hot chocolate and butter toast. To this day my adult children do this with their own children.

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  247. DeaconMac

    Favorite Winter remembrance? Walking the dark and damp streets of the French Quarter in New Orleans after the New Year’s Eve fireworks on the river. The fog so dense, you could see only a few feet in front of you and the street lamps, with their dim yellow bulbs, threw pale shadows against the old brick walls. We shuffled over to Cafe du Monde where tourists stood patiently in line hoping for a table. Suckers. Locals know that you don’t need to wait in line. Just walk in and hover for a moment in the middle of the patio and as soon as someone rises up from their table in preparation for leaving, you grab the table and the appropriate number of chairs, wave down a server and place your order. In moments, hot, steaming coffee (heavy on the chicory) and powdered beignets fill your table. Conversation spills as easily as the coffee as our friends christen their shirts with powdered sugar. There is no finer place to be to celebrate the coming of a new year.

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  250. Joncy K J

    My favourite winter holiday memory is watching all the Christmas decorations in neighbourhood and Christmas carols by various groups.

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  256. Kyla Fugate

    I live in Oregon so my best memory would be the year we had this wind storm Christmas morning. The power went out. My parents decided to take us to my grandparents house which was down the road. That morning was my first Christmas sitting by candlight opening a few gift and spending it with them. Actually, now that I think of it it is the only Christmas I had with thim in the morning.

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  267. Jenny Ham

    My favorite memory is sledding on the Huge hill we have in Topeka everyone sleds there was so much fun to go there as a child.

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  272. Laurie Emerson

    My favorite holiday memory is going to New Hampshire to visit my new in-laws. It was the first time I had ever seen snow or mountains. I loved the cold and drinking hot cocoa by the fireplace.

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  273. Amy Green

    My favorite holiday memory is when I got to decorate the tree with my mom, just the two of us, two Christmases in a row.

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  274. Joanne Schultz

    My parents had just moved to their retirement house on a lake and were so excited to have us all come and stay with them over Christmas! Nice peaceful visit, fire in the fireplace at night and a few boat rides in the lake if the weather was nice!

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  279. Ben Conner

    I remember going to my cousin’s house back when the Super Nintendo came out and being impressed by how the games looked because I had only seen the original Nintendo.

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