Twas The Night Before Christmas - Christmas 2007

Twas The Night Before Christmas - Christmas 2007

This is a reading of ‘Twas the night Before Christmas from a Christmas Eve some years ago (2007). It is directed to my daughter Haley but please accept it as my Christmas Eve gift to you.

As a father I believe it is important to establish traditions with your children. The more traditions you establish the younger they are the more they will remember them and want to follow them as they grow into adults. One of the many traditions I had with my daughter was reading to her on Christmas Eve - Twas the night before Christmas.

This video I made the very first Christmas Eve we were not going to be together. And I did not want to ignore what had become a wonderful Christmas tradition.

So this is me carrying on the tradition with my daughter even though we were not able to be together.

Merry Christmas to All

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43171/a-visit-from-st-nicholas

A Visit from St. Nicholas
BY CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,
When what to my wondering eyes did appear,
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,
With a little old driver so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So up to the housetop the coursers they flew
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too—
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow;
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly
That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

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Era la noche antes de Navidad - Navidad 2007

Esta es una lectura de "Era la noche antes de Navidad de una Nochebuena hace algunos años (2007). Está dirigido a mi hija Haley, pero acéptelo como mi regalo de Nochebuena para usted.

Como padre, creo que es importante establecer tradiciones con sus hijos. Cuantas más tradiciones establezca, más jóvenes serán, más las recordarán y querrán seguirlas a medida que se conviertan en adultos. Una de las muchas tradiciones que tenía con mi hija era leerle en Nochebuena, era la noche antes de Navidad.

Este video que hice la primera Nochebuena que no íbamos a estar juntos. Y no quería ignorar lo que se había convertido en una maravillosa tradición navideña.

Así que este soy yo continuando la tradición con mi hija a pesar de que no pudimos estar juntos.

Feliz Navidad a todos

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43171/a-visit-from-st-nicholas

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