On Christmas break every year my family goes down to Kennett Square, PA and stay at my grandparents’ house. My family has been doing this since my sister Katie was born twenty years ago and maybe even longer than that. For as along as I can remember every Christmas morning I would sit in an over sized brown leather chair and open my presents.
That chair is amazing. It isn’t all one shade of brown; it has light brown mixed perfectly with darker browns to make it a beautiful piece of furniture. After at least seventeen years of usage it still does not have a rip, tear, or even a scratch on it. On Christmas morning the only light on in the room when we get there is the fireplace and it illuminates the chair and it looks so warm and comfy I can’t wait to sit in it. Katie and I go to the tree to separate our presents; we knew we had to wait for our mom so we would always arrange our presents, Katie’s on the right, and mine on the left. Then we would grab out stocking off the mantle and sit in the chairs we always did. I would sit in the brown one and Katie would sit on a sofa/chair mix thing in front of the TV. As soon as I saw my mom walk into the room, I would dump the contents of my pink stocking into my lap. Then I would sort through everything nicely and put it back into my stocking and wait for the presents.
The way presents work is a little different than stockings, my mom picks out the presents, and my dad gives them to us, but only one at a time so we have to watch the other one go. It’s boring as a little kid to do presents like this but it saves all the time later when you ask what did you get for Christmas?
About five years ago we starting putting the brown chair in the laundry room because with the tree out there just wasn’t enough room. But every Christmas morning my dad and I carry the chair out and set it up so that I can open my stocking and presents sitting in it. I love the tradition of going to my grandparent’s house for Christmas, the traditions have changed a little bit but we always bring the chair out. The amount of presents and the amount of people celebrating Christmas with us may change, but I know for sure I will be opening my presents in the chair for years to come.
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I'm going to start off with the one negative thing I got from this. I loved how you talked of the tradition of how you would always sit in the chair and described everything. I just feel it took the focus off of the chair for a while. A brief description would most certainly give a better idea of what the chair means to you and its importance. I just felt there was a little too much. The description of the chair was very good and you get such a positive and bright perception of this chair. It is definitely well put together to get the feeling across.
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