allowed to do that either. we had to change clothes as soon as we got home from school. i had a couple of spankings for breaking that rule.
we finished our supper and washed the dishes. then, we were ready to trim the tree. we had been waiting all day for that moment. mother popped the popcorn and got the needles and thread for all of us to string it for the tree. we also had to cut the strips of paper to make the chains. junior was doing that. we had one string of bulbs for the tree and an angel that mother had made a long time ago. she 