AHHHH… the Christmas season is definitely in full swing. Today was our first measurable snow since late last winter. I awoke on a day off to the sound of the snow plow outside my window. Before my parents left for the day, they requested that I clear the sidewalk if and when it stopped. Well… after I got back from church at 6PM, the snow had stopped. Sorry, too dark although I did search the house high and low for a shovel (honestly, I did; I fully intended upon braving the frigid temps and wind to clear the walk).
On my day off, I decided to break out my copy of Charles Dicken’s immortal classic A Christmas Carol. My copy not only includes the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his spirited visitors but also contains other tales: “The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton” (the story from The Pickwick Papers
The following is the complete list included in my edition:
- Christmas Festivities
- The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton
- A Christmas Episode from Master Humphrey’s Clock
- A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
- A Christmas Tree
- What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older (written in 1851, the year in which Dickens’ lost both his father and infant daughter, Dora)
- The Seven Poor Travellers
I also spent some time outside with two nieces who were joyfully squeaking about the white- covered landscape.
