
Christmas Comes But Once a Year...
How Glad We all should Be...
For that's the time when Baby Dear,
Eats ornaments off the tree !
This little piece of holiday humor was written by Betty Ren Wright...a student in my mother's high school English Class....a family friend...and author of Zillions of Children's Books....including "This Room is Mine" written about my sister and me....having to share a bedroom after my brother John, to whom the book is dedicated. Betty Ren and her Mother spent many holidays with my holidays with my family. You tend to take childhood family friends for granted...a check with Google says the rest of the world did not with over 90,000 entries,....Betty Ren is a reknown author of novels, stories in Redbook and other magazines,...
Betty Ren was not only often a guest in our home....she "visited" us nightly when my Father read us our bedtime story....another valuable and cherished memory we are all fortunate to have as a part of our "Cleaver Family" youth. Happiest of new Year's to everyone...and may all your stories have happy endings !






Very cute poem and a nice picture to boot! Hope you had a Merry Christmas!
Thanks Tony....feel free to send us some sunshine...a very prosperous new year to you !
Sally
I only hope it is not that lion on top that this young child is munching on.
Sincerely
Tom Braatz
Hmmm..well as the saying goes....If you can't lick 'em...Eat 'em ! We know you have "Been There/Done that !"
This is what life is really all about. Ahh I love the end of the year!
As someone famous once said, "Kids do the darndest things." LOL
Best wishes for health, happiness, peace, and prosperity in 2009.