Cherubs for Christmas
The start of my angel collection
3 min readNov 27, 2021
I was married in the spring of 1970 and a mother by the middle of summer. Our first Christmas was spent in our second home, a two-bedroom bungalow. It was a very simple affair. We did not have much money.
I am from a large family, the fifth of twelve children. We used to do a gift exchange on Christmas Eve. I do not remember anything about whose…