A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-23-02

Billie, Aquamarine and daisyscarlett

[Pippin]

Thanks, ((DD))

[MistyCA]

thank you! I will do that. :)

[Billie]

This is at the top of my Self-Search just now, and I cannot let it go without answering it first! LOL!

TOO, TOO cute, Louie! It is just too cute! You and Amy are the cutest hooligans I've ever seen, and when you do one of these posts, I can't quit smiling! (Santa is pretty smart, you know - he's been watching you) :)

P.S. Hugs for the Texas Christmas Tree. :)

(((((((((((((((((Louie)))))))))))))

[Pippin]

(((((((BILLIE)))))))

[Aquamarine]

Here's a (((HUG))) some candy and a song!
Enjoy!

Frosty The Snowman
by Gene Autry

Click on the pic

[Billie]

Dear You Two, :) Cannot tell you how beautiful this thread is today, and I know how much time both of you put into it to make it just perfect.....and it is! It is wonderful, it is beautiful, it is awesome! Thank you for making these days between Thanksgiving and Christmas so special.

[MeekOneGOP]

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So, Jessica, here's the answer Daddy meant to say, "Jesus never had a family because All of Us are His Family, All of Us are His Brothers and Sisters, All of Us are His Children!!"

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan or not...Happy Holidays to Each and Every One of You Wonderful FReepers...You have become MY extended family!!

That is beautiful, my FRiend ! Thanks for sharing that song with us - and the story. Merry Christmas !

I feel the same regarding FR being my extended family....

[JulieRNR21]

What beautiful Christmas Music! Thank you for all the time & effort that went into creating this thread.

I miss whoever also. I always enjoyed her sparkling spirit which shone through her posts.

Merry Christmas to All Finest FRiends!

[Aquamarine]

Where words fail, music speaks.
--Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish short-story writer, poet

[Aquamarine]

Thanks!
"Oh Holy Night" is one of my favorites also. It was played in the opening Nativity Scene post in a combo wav at the end.

[lodwick]

Safe travels and Godspeed JW.

[MeekOneGOP]

Very very nice. Thanks !

[Aquamarine]

Hi Billie, thanks for the kind compliments. You helped with this also so give yourself a pat on the back.
Hope you enjoyed your trip and Christmas get together...missed ya. :)

[Salvation]

Aquamarine,
Thank you for that information. I have not played any of the music yet. Sorry!

[FreeTheHostages]

That would be one crazed homicidal reindeer . . . .

[lodwick]

Good grief Mo - that thing's HUGE! Where's your house?

[lodwick]

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Originally published in The New York Sun in 1897.

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

Dear Editor:

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Signed Virginia O'Hanlon

The answer as published in the New York Sun was:

Virginia, your little friends are wrong.

They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

[FreeTheHostages]

I pray for your son's marriage to be healed.

[Aquamarine]

What a cute post! Thanks for stopping by, maybe Louie will share some of his Christmas treats with you while we play some more Christmas music.

[lodwick]

December 23..................................... Little Christmas in Denmark
December 24..................................... Christmas Eve
December 25..................................... Christmas Day
December 26..................................... St. Stephen's Day, Boxing Day in England, Kwanzaa begins
December 27..................................... St. John's Day, Mother Night
December 28 .................................... Holy Innocents Day
December 30 .................................... Bringing in the Boar
December 31 ................................... New Year's Eve, St. Sylvester's Eve, Hogmanay in Scotland
January 1........................................... New Year's Day, St. Basil's Day
January 2 .......................................... Snow Day, Holde's Day
January 3........................................... Evergreen Day
January 4 .......................................... St. Distaff's Day
January 5 .......................................... Epiphany Eve
January 6 .......................................... Epiphany, Three Kings Day, Twelfth Night
January 7 .......................................... Russian Christmas
First Monday after Epiphany................ Plough Monday in England's traditions
January 13 ........................................ Twentieth Day, St. Knut's Day in Scandanavia