I too, have been feeling a little nostalgic lately, Cath. We were always so excited to see what Santa brought us and I look back and wonder how my folk's did it w/5 kids. But, like you said~ Mom made everything so magical.

W/both of my parent's gone now, things just lack that ''magic''.

I do remember getting a metallic gold stingray bike w/a banana seat and boy, did I think I was cool. I put a million miles on that thing.