Page 46 2024 Home For The Holidays Lincoln Daily News This year we asked our staff and stringers to write a little bit about a favorite Christmas memory. We loved seeing what they wrote and hope you will too! Lesleigh Bennett Our favorite Christmas memories Every year since the kids were very little our family has had matching Christmas pajamas. We pick a theme each year. As the kids have grown and gotten signifi cant others, they too get matching Christmas pajamas. We have a family picture every year in those pajamas in front of the Christmas tree as one big family, the dogs included. Kacey is a nurse in Tennessee so she was on FaceTime last year in her matching pajamas! I treasure that picture every year! Matt Boutcher My favorite Christmas memory might be a little less Christmassy than others. You see, my family begins celebrating Christmas the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday. Also, gift giving has always been a big part of Christmas for my family. For us, it’s less about getting the best gift and more about giving it. Back when Black Friday deals used to be late on Thursday night or early Friday morning, I would go Black Friday shopping with my dad and anyone else who wanted to come. We would listen to Christmas music and go to any and every store that had a deal we were looking for. One year, we were trying to get a Wii Fit for my sister. This is something she really wanted, and Target was having a great sale on it. We got to the store and had to fi ght through the crowds to get to the electronics department. If you have ever been Black Friday shopping, you will know that this is always the busiest section of the store. Having bought a lot of video games growing up, I knew exactly where to look. My dad was trying to get down isles he thought may have had the Wii Fit, and it was too loud and chaotic for me to tell him he was going the wrong way. I ended up going off on my own a couple of aisles down. Continued --
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