Dec

Patricia Heaton, from “The Middle”, recalls Christmas in Bay Village

Cleveland.com has an interview with Patricia Heaton, the star of “The Middle”. Here are some of the highlights:

If you’re wondering what she wants on Dec. 25, her wish list is short: “world peace and champagne.” And never mind the candy canes and Hershey kisses, said Heaton, 51, the mother of four sons. She wants to find something much sweeter in her stocking.

“Candy? I want jewelry, honey.”

What holiday heirlooms do you have?

We actually have my family’s original manger set. We had to replace the figures that got lost and broken over the years. When I was little, my sister Fran and I would play with the figures like it was a doll house. A doll house with sheep and cows. And Wise Men. A pretty weird doll house when you think of it.

What Christmas traditions do you keep now with your husband and children?

My husband, David Hunt, has brought more traditions to our family than I have since he is British. We do Boxing Day with paper crowns and paper crackers that explode and figgy pudding and Yorkshire pudding.

Give us a Bay Village winter memory.

In Bay Village, we always went sledding at the hills around Huntington Beach until our hands and feet were frozen stiff.

Everything was so DIY in those days. And completely unsafe. If somebody didn’t sled into a tree and crack their head open, well, it just wasn’t a special outing. When I was older, it was skating at Winterhurst in Lakewood, where the boys and girls went to meet and skate. It was all so thrilling.