My Christmas Wish
was created especially
for
Mariah Lynn Smith
at the age of
6
Merry Christmas! From
Mommy and Daddy
December 25, 2002
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"Oh what a busy, busy
time of year. Christmas is coming, and I
have so many things to
do," said Mariah to
Olivia, Gracie and
Sophie, who had come to play. "I have gifts to make and
cookies to
bake, but that's not
all. We'll get a tall tree and hang three,
four, or maybe more
stockings."
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Later,
Mariah was talking to
Olivia, Gracie and Sophie about
Santa Claus. They could
picture Santa's jolly, round face and his
big smile that was
nearly hidden by his long, white, bushy beard.
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"I have a great idea,"
said Mariah. "Let's get our crayons
and pencils, each make
a list, and call it "My Christmas Wish." This
list will be special.
We'll pretend that we can go to the
North Pole and see how
Santa and Mrs. Claus get ready for Christmas."
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All of the elves work
so hard in Santa's toy shop that Mrs.
Claus bakes them lots
of cookies for snacks. Some have red icing;
some have chocolate
icing; and some have green icing.
"Ummm, I really like
cookies," said Mariah. "I wish
that I could be there
to share some of them with the elves."
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Santa's elves are very
busy running here and running there.
"I wish that I could be
there to help feed the reindeer and
polish all of the brass
bells," said Olivia.
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Mariah thought of another wish. "I wish that Santa could
bring Rudolph to
Fort Wayne. It would make the whole
town happy."
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"I just thought of an
even bigger wish," said Mariah. "I
wish that Santa Claus
would come with ALL of his reindeer and take
me for a ride. Up, up,
and away we would fly. I would wear a
green suit to match the
color of Santa's green sleigh. As I fly
by, I might even shake
a bell or two myself."
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"Well, I have the
BIGGEST wish," cried Olivia. "I can't
write it down, because
it is so BIG. I wish all of the children
in
Fort Wayne could take turns flying
around with Santa Claus. I
can just see their BIG
smiles."
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Mariah, along with Olivia, Gracie and
Sophie, was enjoying
this pretend game very
much. They were wishing that they could go
and see where Santa and
Mrs. Claus lived. They had been told that
the walkway to the
front door was lined with candy canes!
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All of the sudden, they
found themselves sitting at Santa's
table. Santa was
reading through his very long list of names of
children who had been
very good. Mariah, as well as
Olivia, Gracie
and Sophie, hoped that their names were on the list.
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"Welcome to our home,
Mariah. Would you like some cookies,"
asked Mrs. Claus.
"Santa and I will sing you some Christmas
songs. How about
'Silent Night', or 'Jingle Bells'? Yes, 'Jingle
Bells,'" and they began
to sing.
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The music could be
heard in the workshop where the elves were
working very hard. One
elf was painting some finishing touches on
the roof of a doll
house. "I wonder if one of the elves made
that little doll," said
Mariah. "I would like to have that as a
gift for myself."
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Mariah saw an elf pick up a colorful book about the real
meaning of Christmas.
She thought that it seemed like a good idea to
add the book to her
wish list.
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