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Year after year, my brothers, sisters and I would wait on Christmas morning to hear my father's voice saying it was all right to come down. Usually, I was the first one to wake up. I have been able to remember Christmas since I was six or seven.

Even now, as I look through the boxes of Christmas decorations(装饰物), I see the same ones — the cards with our birthdays on them and our five stockings. But we all have jobs now, so it is usually a rushed activity.

Each year, especially as we get older, little things change. It almost brings a pain to a little place in my heart. The worst was the year after my grandparents hadpassed away. Instead of going to my grandparents' house on Christmas Eve, we just met in our house on Christmas Day. Now, when I recall it, I miss the time when my grandparents celebrated Christmas with us.

After all, every time I hear my father's words "All right, you guys, come down, nice and slow", I still have the same feelings in my heart — the feelings of love, giving, peace, and most of all, the true Christmas gift.