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In the morning I didn't say 3 word Amanda Chambery The Night Before Christmas It was [he night before Chnsimas | was hanging up my scking when | hoard something It sounded fie bells. 11's probabl Santa. 1 wud © mysel! So 1 ran B® my room and thed i go © doop But | couldnt 50 | lay there for a minute. And | heard something again. It was coming from ghe chumncy So | wont and looked the chimney So | wont and lookéd wp the chamncy Santa was stack! | ran 10 my mom and dad and yelled, "Santa's stuck in off chem ney © We had 10 do something but we didn't know what Frmally we" had an idea' We were going 10 suck Santa out of the chimney with a vacuum cleaner. Alf we > Kristy Contes Gufield's Chinaman . Jt was ihe night before Chnlimay, Fherything was okay wai! Odie and Garfield went downstairs for a midnight snack When they starigd 10 open the cupboard door they hoard a sbund comifg (rom the roof. "Ode." said Garfield, "8id you make 3 Night Before before Christmas. Nothing was surmng not oven my fish Whee | by down 10 have a good wiser 's seep. | thought | heard wmeone downstairs 0 the gocher | was kind of hungry so | went 10 inves ugate There was Santa stealing a cookse. Luckily he didn'Lsoe me Then he broke the cookie jar quickly left | looked out the wir Christmas dow and saw 20 things flying up in dhe sky. | ran 10 my bedroom and got my wlescope to see what i was. And 10 my surprise i was Santa Claus taking off from my house. The the morning | opened the st present and i was a new cookie jar. | sand, "Santa broke our old one last night." My mom said, "Yah nght, you probably broke it!" And that's what happened the night before Christmas at our house! The Night Before Christmas s the night before I couldn't get 10 sleep becafise | was fo excited about wmarrow. So my dad ook me for a drive 10 see the Christmas lights. It was fun. | fell asjecp. | was happy 10 open my presents in the morning The End. Merry Christmas! Cody Browne The Night Before Christmas One night | got 10 my bed and | beard something. | went down. stairs. | hud behind the pano and | saw him. It was Santa Claus After be left, | 100k one of the presents upstairs and | opened it It was a Nitendo game. Then | wont down and | played It was 7:30. | played #t some more. And | played until 800 My Dad woke up and | hud the game under the couch. Just when we heard some fons coming down the chimney was 3 box at the boom of the fireplace | picked i up and put i under the roe. "Santa must have dropped a lac one of." | sad 10 my Dad Thea gmy Dad saw the wrapping and he found the Nimiendo game. "1 guess you were up carly? Let's have a game." my Dad sad Alex Hutchinson The REAL meaning of Christmas _ --more from the Christian School Not Just Candy. Canes ahd Qwistsntians Trees Christmas 15 a ume of Jesus' ' 4° We celebrate at this ume of 1 The méslage should be across the cath, Thos story we should hear Shepherds. and wise men tame wwe The Christ child in hus minger And because it means a lot 0 1 will pot put you in any son of As 10 what Christmas is © me Some pepple think that Christmas is only about The toys and gilts that we receive W But what | really think about Is family, frends and Christmas carols. Tha is what | think about, When the Christmas seasop is upon us Rachel Burghgroef. J Wishing you thé best for this Christmas Season and through the coming year. TAYLOR | 0 ura bo BOB.Aan BEN. 3860 Towy 7A WEST. PORT PERRY iM . & a TTT RT --- ZL Ta » What Christmas Means To Me. It is the time of year when holly decorates the fireplace man the, mistletoe is overhead and a beautiful woe standg in my living room. On Christmas Day | go with my family 10 my great grandmoth er's house 10 be with everyone. It a time when adults talk and chil dren play. A ume when love fills the house. It 1s on this special day that we celebrate the birth of © Ohnist and everything he means 10 me Lee Stute. True Swory Christmas 1s célebrating the Messiah's birth. That night the angels' rang through the sky loft their flocks 10 find him. A star, brighter than the rest, sat above/Him A seemingly poor child, he was the greatest king on carth. His face shone, as if on fire. The prophecies were all true. Here was the Saviour! With a manger for a bed Ch is not just stocking and Santa Claus. It's Christ come 10 earth, it's giving and sharing Spending time with your family, doing special things together Now these things are all part of Christmas. But for me, Christmas is that good feeling you get inside when you've made someone happy Think sbout that. It's not the ght ung that's important, it's the giv- A ng Sarah Henshaw,