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Miss You Most at Christmas Time
by Mariah Carey

 
Donald "Micky" Maguire

       

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The fire is burning, the room's all aglow
Outside the December wind blows
Away in the distance the carolers sing in the snow
Everybody's laughing, the world is celebrating
And everyone's all happy, except for me tonight
Because I miss you most at Christmas time
And I can't get you, get you off my mind
Every other season comes along and I'm all right
But then I miss you most at Christmas time.

 


Although this is not a Christmas morning photo, this is the
infamous staircase!
Photo taken in 1961
    How do I even begin to explain Christmas at our house. As a youngster, the prominent memory I have is of my Dad insisting that us kids stay upstairs until he was ready for us to come down. We would then descend the stairs, and get blinded by the flood lights connected to his movie camera. We have an archive of movies of us all "squinty eyed" looking and waving to Dad as he filmed us coming downstairs and seeing the gifts under the tree.

After we had recovered our eyesight (we saw yellow lights in front of our eyes for a few minutes after he shut those floodlights off) we would all have juice and donuts from Uncle Andy's Bakery, because you just could not open gifts on an empty stomach! We would then proceed to opening the gifts, which we did one at a time, as Dad wanted to see what Santa had brought us for Christmas (you know who DIDN'T do the shopping!)

Although you are no longer with us Dad, your spirit lives on in our family. Our precious memories of the holidays, the special things that made you such a wonderful and loving Grandfather, and the traditions that you started and left with us are, and always will be, part of the family tradition known as "Home for Christmas".

I will be writing more about Christmas in the pages that follow, for now I'd like to tell you a little bit about Dad (or Grampy as the grandkids called him).

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