All the guests stand in a circle, with a wrapped gift (under a specific dollar amount.) The “Right Family Christmas” story is read, and each time the word “right” is read, each guest passes their gift to the right. Each …[Continue]
Stories
Christmas with Mr. Pickwick
by Charles Dickens It was a very pleasant thing to see Mr. Pickwick in the centre of the group, now pulled this way, and then that, and first kissed on the chin and then on the nose, and then on …[Continue]
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the …[Continue]
The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s …[Continue]
The Little Match Seller
by Hans Christian Andersen It was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast. In the cold and the darkness, a poor little girl, with bare head and naked …[Continue]
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
The New York Sun – 1897 We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Dear EditorI am 8 …[Continue]
