I'm sure we have all had a holiday to remember!
Feel good to share yours.


Here is a commercial from Chevrolet
that should put tears to you eyes.
This can happen to any of us.

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A Holiday to Remember | Chevrolet (5:26 long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnZGEUA4oBk
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Here is a little backstory behind the commercial:

Chevy's emotional holiday ad features a grandmother with Alzheimer's engaging in reminiscence therapy. Here's how it works.
Kaitlin Reilly
Thu, November 30, 2023 at 4:09 PM EST

Get your tissues out: Chevy’s new Christmas commercial is here, and it might make you weep. It will certainly teach you a bit about a therapy that may help patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions associated with dementia.

The commercial, which was created with assistance from the Alzheimer’s Association, focuses on an elderly woman suffering from the disease. In it, her granddaughter takes her on a jaunt in a 1972 Chevy Suburban, revisiting places from her youth as they listen to John Denver on an 8-track tape. As a result, the grandmother is able to recall some aspects of her life that initially had seemed lost.

It's not just a sweet holiday story, though. As the company worked on the ad with the Alzheimer's Association, they “talked a lot about reminiscence therapy,” Steve Majoros, Chevrolet's head of marketing, told Ad Age.

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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/chevys-emotional-holiday-ad-features-210921267.html

Thanks for posting this thread Foggy. For me, I have been reminiscing about long ago Christmases, because I have lost so many family members. When I was a little girl, Christmas Eve was the beginning of a few days of fun. It started before Christmas when my parents took me out to buy a new dress for Christmas. On Christmas Eve morning/afternoon, I made sure to take a nap because it was going to be a long night. My mom would put my hair in curlers to have curly hair (although I already had wavy hair so never understood this). We would get dressed in our new clothes and head to my maternal great-grandmother's house for dinner of German food (she was my maternal grandfather's mother). We would then open presents and head with my maternal grandparents to my grandma's sister's house. Even though it was her sister, she was much older and was treated more as a grandma because my grandma lost her parents young and Aunt Mary helped raise her. My Aunt Mary had a spread of Polish food and the adults would drink but I was happy with my 7UP. Then at night, we went to Midnight Mass and went home.

Christmas morning we opened gifts brought by "Santa" and then headed out to see my paternal and maternal grandparents. My paternal grandmother was practical and mostly got me clothes but one toy. She lost her home in London during WW2 due to the bombing so she was very practical. Then off to my somewhat wealthy maternal grandparents who spoiled us and dinner. One thing I remember about my maternal grandmother was she always had nuts out and I remember she had every kind of nut.

On December 26 the fun began! With all the things going on Christmas 24 and 25th, we didn't get a lot of playtime on these days. Oh sure we could take a gift to my grandparents on the 25th (like if I got a doll, one year I got a doll along with a carrier, clothes, and supplies so she went with it), but so much going on. However December 26 we got up and after cleaning our mess we took our toys to our rooms and played all day!

Most of my family is now gone (including my grandparents, and my mom) and these memories make me relive these young days. Oh and here's the commercial of the doll I mentioned above called Don't Cry Baby. I wanted this doll so badly, and my mom later told me she struggled to find this doll. Luckily my one aunt did find it and when she got it my mom told me she cried. As I get older, I realized how truly fortunate I was, and how my brother and I always got a ton of presents.

Don't Cry Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-tWKWLlghQ

Thank you for posting and so glad I viewed it, well worth a few good minutes...

I too have fond memories of my Christmasses and none like the video...