My mom was great about building a Christmas Village Lionel HO train set for us when we were little kids. On a couple sheets of plywood in the living room on Christmas morning. She would stay up all night doing it, alone. I didn't realize till much later in life how hard she worked to make our morning special. These included a lake, tunnel through a mountain, a village with a level crossing, trees, snow, somehow she managed to integrate the whole thing with a slot car racing set. The one I found most interesting/wonderful was a slot car harness racing horses set that she worked into it one year. Horses racing around an oval track in the Christmas Village. Awesome. She is 75 years old this year. She is and always will be my one and only hero. Merry Christmas.