Christmas spirit...

[Otay Michael]

In honor of the great one, whom just passed away, as he had the
spirit of this family (a true Christmas story from 1943).

"A week before Christmas, mom bought a new nativity scene. When she unpacked it, she found two figures of the baby Jesus. "Someone must have packed this wrong," mother said, counting out the figures. "We have one Joseph, one Mary, three wise men, three shepherds, two lambs, a donkey, a cow, an angel, and two babies. Oh, dear! I suppose some set down at the store is missing a baby Jesus."

"You two run back down to the store and tell the manager that we have an extra Jesus. Tell him to put a sign on the remaining boxes saying that if a set is missing a Baby Jesus, call 7126. Put on your warm coats, it's freezing cold out there." The manager of the store copied down mother's message, and the next time we were in the store, we saw the cardboard sign that read, "If you're missing baby Jesus, call 7126." All week long we waited for someone to call. Surely, we thought, someone was missing that important figurine. Each time the phone rang, mother would say, "I'll bet that's about Jesus." But it never was. ..."

Con't here:
https://www.seewald.com/extra_baby_jesus_story.htm

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Seewald Gallery, Del Mar:

[mark poulson]

A really nice story.

[EPBurnett]

Yeah, Story is really nice.