The “House Critters” Christmas Time

    The house critters knew something extra special was going to happen because they could smell it. No really, they have very sensitive noses and could actually smell the dust. The human that spent the most time with them was cleaning everything, so they were sneezing from all the dust and had to keep moving around; she always was called Barb by the other humans.  

   Henrietta Bobbie Bunny, the eldest of the critters, decided to get the rest of the house critters for a meeting to figure out what was going to happen.  Gathering them up did not take long as Ducky Duck, Big Bunny, Blue Booby, and Rainy Reindeer had all fled to the computer room with a wooden floor, so it was not going to get vacuumed. They knew Thanksgiving had come and gone awhile ago, they could still remember the taste of mashed potatoes and gravy. There had been a number of snowy days, so they were sure it was winter. They thought and talked about it for days, but did not know until Barb started putting up decorations, what was coming. There were pine trees, skiers, funny looking red flowers, and bowls with balls in them with everything having bright colors and lots of glitter. Then she put out a little red wagon with elves in it and a village with people, snow, and reindeer, which made Rainy very happy.  The real give away was when she put up lots of figures of an old guy with a white beard and a red suit. Then she went out on the front porch to put up a flag with Santa in a sleigh with reindeer pulling it, part of her flag for every season and occasion collection, which made Rainy even happier. Big Bunny remembered the humans called this day Christmas and that last year they helped make lots of cookies, along with eating a few.

   He also thought there was something that went on the night before Christmas and on Christmas day that they had enjoyed last year. This started a discussion about what each critter remembered and as usual they focused on treats. They mentioned crackers and cheese, carrots with dip, shrimp and oysters, along with a ham dinner. When any of the activities that had the treats happened they were not sure. However, Henrietta did know that before the treats a big green tree would be put up in the antique room and covered with lights, shinny ropes, and colored balls. Then Ducky made a strange quack, turned out he was happy as he remembered one of the best thing about this day. Everybody got presents, actually everybody got lots of presents including them!