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Holiday Greetings from the SRSCRODecember 2011
 
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Happy Holidays
and
Best Wishes for
a Very Happy New Year
from the SRSCRO!

 Happy Holidays!
 
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Closing Thoughts

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Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family. - Kim Kardashian

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I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.- Henny Youngman

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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. - Calvin Coolidge

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A good conscience is a continual Christmas. - Benjamin Franklin

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Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white". - Bing Crosby

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. - Charles Dickens

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Get the biggest aluminum tree you can find, Charlie Brown, maybe painted pink. - Lucy Van Pelt 

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I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love . - Linus

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The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear. - Buddy the Elf

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I'm a cotton-headed ninny-muggins. -
Buddy the Elf 
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Mrs. Santa Claus
The Wife of Santa Claus
Mr. & Mrs. Claus

 

She helps him and the elves with the North Pole's assignments.

She was introduced in the short story "A Christmas Legend" (1849) by James Rees. The idea found its way in several short stories over the following decades until becoming the protagonist of "Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride" (1889) by Katherine Lee Bates.  

 

Goody is short for "Goodwife" used instead of Mrs. In Bates' poem, Mrs. Claus wheedles a Christmas Eve sleigh-ride from a reluctant Santa in recompense for tending their toy and bonbon laden Christmas trees, their Thanksgiving turkeys, and their "rainbow chickens" that lay Easter eggs. Once away, Mrs. Claus steadies the reindeer while Santa goes about his work descending chimneys to deliver gifts. She begs Santa to permit her to descend a chimney. Santa grudgingly grants her request and she descends a chimney to mend a poor child's tattered stocking and to fill it with gifts. Once the task is completed, the Clauses return to their Arctic home. At the end of the poem, Mrs. Claus remarks that she is the "gladdest of the glad" because she has had her "own sweet will". 

 
Click here for "Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride" (1889) by Katherine Lee Bates

 

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