25 Weeks Until Christmas
Hi ho, friends. 25 weeks to go until Christmas.
Technically, that’s half way. But 25 sure seems like a tiny number to me these days.
In fact, these long days of summer this year feel like short days to me. The hours just zoom by because I’m so busy.
Everyone writing in to the North Pole always wants to know what Santa is doing and “where is he right now?”
But they rarely ask about Mrs. Claus. They don’t think she does anything.
I’m telling you that Mrs. Claus is the busiest elf at the North Pole.
Mrs. Claus is just involved with everything. Everyone here talks to her. She asks how they are doing then she asks what they are doing and then she asks how they are doing it.
People always want to please Mrs. Claus so they tell her everything. And she always has something to say to them in return.
Mrs. Claus has worked just about every elf job at the North Pole. She has worked in the Wrapping Department. She has raised reindeer. She has planted holly and ivy and grown mistletoe. She is the foremost Christmas cookie maker on the planet.
So for me, in my job as her Chief of Staff, I have to keep up with everything she does and everywhere she goes at the North Pole.
Take, for example, this business about the test flights of Santa’s sleigh. They sure are getting a lot of attention here at the North Pole this year. And, of course, Mrs. Claus knows all about them. And she knows all about Santa’s radical new sleigh. She is, after all, an accomplished sleigh pilot.
Anyway, Mrs. Claus is involved in that project. Going to meetings and talking to elves. She can speak to everything.
And because she does that means I have to know all about it, too.
And guess what? I don’t WANT to know all about the test flights of Santa’s sleigh. I really don’t.
I have a wedding to plan.
A big wedding.
And nobody, not even Mrs. Claus, understands the problems I’m dealing with.
For example, a tuxedo for Big Sled Ted.
Big Sled Ted. He’s a very important guy for the Mighty Mick and for Trixie. He’s the best man. Of course he has to wear a tuxedo.
But he’s Big Sled Ted. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find a tuxedo for Big Sled Ted? He’s BIG.
That’s my world right now – this reindeer wedding and it’s many details.
Naturally, I have turned to Mrs. Claus for her expertise and advice. Like all elves, she wants to help me, too. But not even Mrs. Claus knows where I can find a tuxedo for Big Sled Ted.
We’re working on it. But it is kind of hard to concentrate on Santa’s radical new sleigh when I am distracted by wedding stuff.
Thank goodness I have Mrs. Claus to help me.
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