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••••WHAT IS THE MOST HUMOROUS THING THAT HAPPENED TO YOU THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON???!!!....••••





????---IN THE MIDST OF CHRISTMAS..WHAT MADE YOU REALLY LAUGH?••••


•••HERE ARE YOUR INNER THOUGHTS•••





---From SABRINA:

EVERYONE KNOWS THE LITTLE KIDS ARE WHAT MAKES CHRISTMAS PRICELESS...EVEN THE FIRST CHRISTMAS WAS CENTERED AROUND A SPECIAL NEW BORN CHILD....BUT MY TWO YEAR OLD GRANDDAUGHTER GOT A BUILD-A-TEDDY..THAT WAS ACTUALLY A KITTY AND SHE HELPED PUT IT TOGETHER. WHEN IT WAS FINISHED SHE BROKE OUT WITH, "SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE..SHAKE, SHAKE SHAKE,--SHAKE YOUR KITTY...THEN SHE SAID..."UT OH,KITTY, BOO BOO HA HA...IT WAS SO HILARIOUS. KIDS ARE SO WONDERFUL AND SPONTEANOUS TO BE AROUND, ESPECIALLY AT THAT AGE, AND AT CHRISTMAS TIME....IT BRINGS OUT THE KID IN ALL OF US....


---From RHONDA:

.....WE WERE STANDING IN THIS LONG LINE TO SEE SANTA, AND MY 3 YEAR OLD, MARKIE, HAD TO USE THE RESTROOM....SO..I TOLD HIM TO TRY AND WAIT....HE DID...THEN SUDDENLY HE YELLED..."DONT GO ANYWHERE SANTA...I GOTTA PEE AND I DON'T WANT WET PANTS TO MESS YOUR SUIT UP..." THE WHOLE LINE BEGAN TO LAUGH...AND SANTA ASSURED HIM THAT HE WOULD WAIT FOR HIM....YOU JUST NEVER EXPECT YOUNG KIDS LIKE THAT TO COME UP WITH THOSE THINGS....


---From BILLY:

I HAVE A VERY QUESTIONING SON, HE IS GOING ON EIGHT NOW AND HE STARTED ASKING ME ALL ABOUT THESE WORDS HE DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND..ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS STORY....LIKE WHY WOULD THEY PUT JESUS IN A BARN...WITH THE FARM ANIMALS..? WHAT WAS A MANGER??? WHAT WAS SWADDLING CLOTHES...???HE WANTED TO KNOW HOW THREE WISE MEN WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW A BIG STAR TO FIND OUT WHERE JESUS WAS STAYING --HE SAID THEY SHOULD OF HAD GPS TO HELP THEM..WELL IT WAS FUN TO EXPLAIN TO HIM, AND HE LISTENED TO EVERYTHING...AND THEN HE FINALLY SAID, RIGHT BEFORE HE WENT TO BED...YOU KNOW, JESUS MUST HAVE BEEN A PRETTY SPECIAL GUY TO DO ALL THAT STUFF...I THINK I AM GONNA HAVE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HIM...THE FUNNY SUDDENLY TURNED TOUCHING IN MY HEART...BUT IT IS SO WONDERFUL HOW THE LORD WORKS WITH KIDS HEARTS TO HELP THEM FIND THEIR WAY.....


---From KEITH:

.....OK...IT WASN'T FUNNY AT THE TIME, BUT I LOOK BACK ON IT NOW...AND FROM "YOUR" POINT OF VIEW...YOU WOULD REALLY BE LAUGHING..SO I WILL SHARE....
WE WENT OUT THIS YEAR, BOUGHT A REAL TREE, PULLED IT AT LEAST A QUARTER MILE IN THE SNOW, TIED IT DOWN ON THE CAR AND DROVE ABOUT 10 MILES TO GET IT HOME...IT WAS CROOKED...AND THE ORNAMENTS HUNG FUNNY...WE TOOK A PICTURE OF IT, AND HAD TO TURN THE CAMERA SLIGHTLY TO MAKE IT COME OUT RIGHT...WE DID EVERYTHING WE COULD DO...THE MORE WE COVERED UP THE FACT IT WAS WARPED, THE MORE IT SHOWED...AFTER HOURS OF ADJUSTING OVER AND OVER...WE THREW UP OUR HANDS AND AS I WAS WALKING AWAY, I TRIPPED ON SOME SPARE LIGHT STRINGS ON THE FLOOR AND FELL RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TREE...WE ALL HAD TO LAUGH..THEN WE CRIED...AND PULLED OFF ALL THE BROKEN BRANCHES AND IT ACTUALLY LOOKED BETTER....MERRY CHRISTMAS.....LOL.....


---From CANDY:

....A KNOCK ON OUR DOOR AT ABOUT 10PM ONE NIGHT A WEEK OR SO BEFORE CHRISTMAS BECAME A CRAZY NIGHT FOR OUR FAMILY. TWO OLDER CHRISTMAS CAROLERS HAD BEEN RIDING ON A WAGON AROUND TOWN SINGING, AND THE WAGON RAN OFF WITHOUT THEM...THEY WERE FLUSTERED AND UPSET...SO WE INVITED THEM IN, GAVE THEM SOME HOT COCOA AND LISTENED TO THEIR STORY...THEY WERE TWO LADIES IN THE EARLY 50S, NOT VERY BIG AT ALL AND AFTER WARMING UP THEY DECIDED TO SING US SOME OF THE SONGS THAT THEY HAD BEEN SINGING AS PAYMENT FOR OUR KINDNESS...IT WAS SUCH A SHAME THAT THEY COULD NOT CARRY A TUNE...IT WAS SO BAD THAT MY TEEN HAD TO LEAVE THE ROOM FOR FEAR OF LAUGHING OUT LOUD AND HE KNEW WE WOULD NOT TOLERATE THAT...BUT IT WAS HARD TO KEEP FROM LAUGHING...WHEN OUR DOG STARTED TO HOWL...WE WERE ALL BUT, BURSTING AT THE SEAMS...WHEN FINALLY THE LADIE'S WAGON SHOWED UP LOOKING FOR THEM....AS THEY WALKED OUT THE DOOR..OUR WHOLE HOUSE ROARED FROM THIS SPECIAL CHRISTMAS HAPPENING...


---From SUSAN:

....WE TOOK OUR FAMILY FOR RIDE OUT TO LOOK AT THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS IN OUR AREA. IT IS A NORMAL THING WE DO WHILE WAITING FOR THE SPECIAL EVENT, AND ALSO IT SEEMS TO HELP TO GET OURSELVES EVEN MORE IN THE MOOD....THIS YEAR IT SEEMS, MANY FOLKS WERE LATE PUTTING UP THINGS, AND THE MORE WE DROVE AROUND THE FUNNIER THINGS WE WITNESSED...WE PASSED ONE FELLOW HOLDING A GIGANTIC STRING OF LIGHTS AND EVERY OTHER ONE WAS WORKING AND HE WAS VERY UPSET AND THEN HE THREW THEM ON THE GROUND AND THEY ALL WENT OUT...HE WAS STOMPING AROUND AS WE QUICKLY DROVE AWAY LAUGHING. THIS HAPPENED ON AND OFF ALL NIGHT LONG, BY THE TIME WE GOT HOME...WE HAD PLENTY OF CHRISTMAS CHEER... ....


---From TED:...

CHRISTMAS WASN'T ALL THAT FUNNY FOR ME THIS YEAR, BUT I TRIED TO FIND SOME LIGHT IN IT...ALTHOUGH MY JOB LOOKED BLEAK, SANTA DIDNT HAVE MY NEIGHBORHOOD ON HIS LIST, MY KIDS WERE ALL GROWN AND GONE AND MY WIFE WAS OUT BUYING FOR HERSELF LIKE SHE DOES ANY OTHER TIME OF THE YEAR...NOTHING WAS SPECIAL...UNTIL I SAW THIS BIG WHITE GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG IN THE VERY BACK PART OF MY YARD, AND I WONDERED WHY HE WAS LAYING IN SUCH A WEIRD WAY..I EXAMINED HIM A BIT CLOSER..AND CURLING HIMSELF UP IN A BALL, HE FINALLY REVEALED A LITTLE KITTEN, AND HE WAS TRYING AS HARD AS HE COULD TO KEEP IT WARM, BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY COLD THAT NIGHT, I SMILED AND THOUGHT..YA KNOW...THIS MAY NOT BE SOMETHING TO LAUGH ABOUT BUT IT IS A REMINDER TO EVERYONE...THAT CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT SHARING, AND GOING OUT OF YOUR WAY..TO BE A BETTER PERSON, OR CREATURE TO GIVE THAT SPECIAL GIFT FOR THE SAKE OF JESUS CHRIST...NOW THE MORE I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS THE HAPPY I GOT...AND YOU KNOW, I HAD A JOYFUL CHRISTMAS IN SPITE OF MYSELF.... ...


---From DIANNE:...

MY CHILDREN WOKE MY HUSBAND AND ME UP AT 5 AM CHRISTMAS MORNING...AND GRUMBLING, STUMBLING DOWN THE STAIRS I MISSED THE LAST TWO...AND FELL RIGHT ON MY OWN BIG CHRISTMAS PACKAGE AND I HEARD THIS GIANT CRACK, CRUNCH...AND I SAID "OH NO, WHAT DID I DO?" EVERYONE WAS LAUGHING BECAUSE IT WAS JUST A GAG GIFT THAT I HAD FALLEN ON, AND MY REAL PRESENT TURNED OUT TO BE A NEW DIAMOND RING...IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL...BUT FOR A MOMENT...I WAS DEVISATED, THEN DELIGHTED AND LAUGHTER FINALLY CAME OUT IN THE END....AND NO ONE, "ME" WAS EVEN HURT IN THE FALL....THAT WAS MY CRAZY FUNNY CHRISTMAS STORY...


---From CHERYL:...

MY MOTHER IN LAW CAN NOT HEAR VERY WELL AND WE GOT A KICK OUT OF HER AS SHE WAS AT OUR HOUSE FOR A SPECIAL VISIT ON CHRISTMAS EVE...HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE PHRASES THAT SHE KEPT HEARING WRONG....EVERYTIME SOMEONE SAID, "HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS" SHE THOUGHT WE WERE SAYING---DID YOU HEAR THAT GRANDMA?--AND WE WOULD GRIN AND TELL HER WHAT WE REALLY SAID...WHEN WE WERE SINGING --UP ON THE HOUSE TOP...SHE WAS LOOKING AROUND FOR SOMETHING THAT SOMEONE HAD DROPPED...IT WAS JUST FUNNY AND SHE TOOK IT ALL IN GOOD SPIRITS TOO...I LOVE HER, AND SHE JUST MADE CHRISTMAS A BIT MORE LIGHT AND SPECIAL FOR US THIS YEAR....




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