Fruit Salad

I've got to buy some fruit today for my Christmas fruit salad.

When my kids were little, I never had to buy the fruit for Christmas. We couldn't have afforded it anyway. We would all go to church on the Sunday before Christmas, and everyone there got a fruit bag. Sometimes we would go to other churches' Christmas pageants and they would also hand out fruit.

We couldn't eat it all quickly enough so that it wouldn't spoil, so we would use all of the leftover fruit to make a giant fruit salad. The bags even had nuts to crack to put into the salad, and occasionally little boxes of raisins.

Of course we would eat the little bits of candy in the bags, usually before we got home. The candy was the usual hard candy or peppermint cane for many years, and then when we could afford it my husband donated "real" candy: Hershey Kisses, Peanut Butter Cups, etc. These were fun because we could trade each other for our favorites.

Even though it's not the same now, with my husband deceased and my girls married, but I am going to buy the same kind of fruit we had back then and enjoy the memories. I thank God for giving us this wonderful fruit salad each year.