A Writer Remembers

An Old Fashioned Christmas

As told to me by my mother

Brenda Verwey
Writers on Fire
Published in
5 min readDec 16, 2021

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Photo by Walter Chávez on Unsplash

My mother told me this story about a Christmas she remembered as a child. This was circa 1940, near Osler, Saskatchewan.

The house was alive with activity the day before Christmas. Everyone was working hard to get ready for the Holy Days. The boys did the outside chores, which included…

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Brenda Verwey
Writers on Fire

Story teller, writer, dreamer, single mom, and my grandchildren's favorite wind-up toy.