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14 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday December 20, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com Oakville children share their Christmas stories and drawings in this festive special feature, A Child's Christmas Presented by Christmas Memories Christmas is important to me because it reminds me of when I was little. And when I was little I got my first Christmas present. My Christmas present was a Big Brown Spotted white puppy. My top puppy had Big Black eyes and Big floppy ears. And every night I would cuddle up with it to fall asleep. Every morning I would try to say "good morning," to it. And I named it an adorable name whitch was Elf. I named it Elf because elves work hard to make topys and my puppy is a toy so I named it Elf. Elf was always siting on my bed except when I would take it out for Breakfast, lunch, dinner and to watch TV. Christmas is also very important to me because Jesus was born on Christmas eve. And Jesus is very, very, very, important because Jesus is the son of God and He is known for His kindness, generosity, and for miracles. Some miracles saved people's lives and gave thousands of people food to eat like bread bread, fish and more. Jesus also helped men fish for more and more food. The reasons for miracles is to show us eternal life. And Christmas is one of my favourite holidays of the year. By Tessa Pelino with a doll to go with it. "This is the best Christmas ever," I said. Were going toboganning today "OK" I said. By Juliana LoPresti What Christmas Means Christmas, Christmas, Lots of things to love. The Presents, the saviour, everything but mostly our saviour Jesus and this is how the story goes. One day Gbriel an angle, sent by God came to Mary and said you will have a baby you will give him the name Jesus. He will make many miracles and Mary said "Yes I will." The next night Gabriel came to Joseph in his dreams and said do not be afraid to have mary as your wife And then they got married and they looked everywhere for a place to stay. But all they could fid was a stable and that was where Jesus was born. Then the star came into the sky and then the wise men came to Jesus gold, frankincense and myrrh and that was how Jesus was born! Here is one my Christmas Storys! Two years ago I went to my Papa's hous for Christmas. We slept over and I got a poster of a Wii and the money for a Wii. And that is my Christmas memory. Good bye! The end. By Aidan Own Smith We asked Ms.Hould's Grade four class from St. Matthew's School to submit letters about what Christmas means to them and their fondest Christmas memories. We also asked Mrs. Kattis and Mrs. Cafazzo's Junior Kindergarten classes, from St. Joan of Arf Catholic School to submit creative Christmas pictures. We received so many wonderful submissions and all have been published exactly as they were submitted to us. These stories and pictures are a great way to get in the holiday spirit and understand just what Christmas means to the children of Oakville. Enjoy! Christmas Memories Do you want to know all about my Christmas memories? Well I guess I should. After all Christmas is the most important celebration ever! Want to know why? Because in Christmas the son of god Jesus is born. When Jesus is born, we all celebrate Christmas. Anyway I'll tell you about my memories. In my first Christmas we celebrated with some chicken and turkey. Everybody in my family thought I was cute. And my mom said I really was. On my second Christmas my grandparents came to my house. We invited my cousins, my aunts and uncles. On my third Christmas we didn't have chick or turkey we had grill! We had sausages ribs and specially beef! On my fourth Christmas we went to a restaurant called fondue. By Luis Diaz My Christmas Memories Christmas is outstanding to me. This is one of my Christmas stories. When I was about 4 my mother put reindeer food on the front porch. Juliana! C.J.! It's time for bed. "OK mommy," "Good night," said my mom and dad. I said "Good night back." "I think I am going to have a good dream tonight," I said. Wow! I can't believe I just dreamed about twinkletoes the elf, and Santa, and I was talking to Santa at his work shop. "C.J., Juliana come quickly," said my mother. "Yes, mommy," I said. "Look outside. Are those footprints?" "So you are saying reindeer walk up our porch. "Yeah," said my mom. "Wow!" I said. I got the best present ever a blanket