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Merry Christmas from Our House to Yours

We wish a Merry Christmas, to all our family and friends back home and far away.

This year Mr. and Mrs. Clause ( aka Ron and Pam)  are tired and not in the mood to write the annual Christmas Gossip sheet so it looks like it will be up to me BJ the family loyal subject (or the dog)

This seems to have been a long year and a half for Mr. & Mrs. Clause with building the new home and trying to finish the new work shop.  Plus Santa had to take on a new job and Mrs. Clause left her job of ten years to move here to help Santa. The first six months of the building of the new house was quiet the adventure.

First Mrs. Clause and I stayed back to sell the old house and work. Santa went ahead and started the new job and came to visit every two weeks on weekends when he could.  Santa’s job started on April fool’s day!! That in itself should tell you something!!! Now some of you are asking why Santa had to take a job but as you know we have a new president taxes have gone up health care cost have sky rocketed especially for Mrs. Clause with her diabetes (To much access to sugar plums and sugar cookies and candy canes you know) So Santa choose to take a job where he was born and raised in the Poteau Mountains of Oklahoma. He’s working for an old Randy Lum. This is where Santa wanted to retire so he could hunt and fish and enjoy the forest and simple life.

Now Mrs. Clause on the other hand was not so sure about the move since her children and grandchildren were still back at the old place. She’s never been so far away from them and doesn’t like not being able to go to ball games school plays and shopping with her girls. Plus Mrs. Clause was still recovering from shoulder surgery and was completing her therapy. 

Well the house finally sold in July to a real nice young couple, Mrs. Clause was glad it sold to them because they would be good neighbors to her friends and Santa’s friends nearby. We had several good elves help us pack up the old place and put it in storage. Which was good, because there was a lot of langue I hadn’t heard before, out of Mrs. Clause while she was packing boxes with her one good arm. Now Santa had to get back to the new job and Mrs. Clause and I were left to find a new home until we could join Santa. Mrs. Clause wasn’t too anxious to make the move away from the grandkids. She enjoyed her job, plus Mrs. Clause had made a lot of good friends and wasn’t excited about leaving them. So the kids drew straws and Shanna & Charlie got the short one and took us in. Mrs. Clause was very nervous about this move because she has a great relationship with her children and wanted it to stay that way. Now I on the other hand was excited, anyone who knows, Shanna and Charlie, know they love their dogs and spoil them. So it was  a dream come true for me. Yep I was living in tall cotton as they say. Treats four and five times a day, Sonic hot dogs on take out night, pizza, left over’s every night.  I gained 15 lbs , the three months we were there. And more after Mrs. Clause left for Poteau.

Well to make a long story short the house was being built and Santa is not great, at interior decorating and Mrs. Clause was a little worried about what he might pick out on his own so October 1^st Mrs. Clause moved to Poteau. Now the house was suppose to be ready the first of December but the elves in the Poteau mountain’s  all take off to go hunting and fishing around October and November. So things were delayed. Mrs. Clause and Mr. Clause were living in a 10 x 10 room in Grandma Lou’s house.   I hear tell it was a little cramped. I at this time was enjoying the lap of luxury and enjoying fine dining.

From what I hear building your dream home is not necessarily a dream! Mrs. Clause was homesick, Santa was worn out with working and making decisions because the elves wouldn’t listen to Mrs. Clause on what she wanted done on the house. Then Mrs. Clause wanted Santa in on the decision making on the inside things Santa went into shut down mode and didn’t want to make any decisions, and so the war began! Mrs. Clause cried Santa Yelled and Grandma Lou made casseroles’. By December Mrs. Clause was ready to move back Santa was going to the woods and I was glad I was where I was. I think the breaking point was when Mr. and Mrs. Clause (necks set in a permanent tilted to the ceiling mode) after looking at lights for three weekends in a row, went down the hill too look at what had been done on the house that week. Mrs. Clauses found her white kitchen cabinets, stained over with black stain, and the mahogany bookshelf’s were now oak. Mrs. Clause cried, Santa yelled and elves backed away! Mrs. Clause was packing her bags, Santa was threatening to use the place as kindling for a weenie roast and Grandma Lou made one too many casseroles’.

The house was finished in February and things have calmed down a little. Santa took Tyler and Bronson hunting in the woods over Thanksgiving, I have run off some of that extra 15 pounds I had put on and Mrs. Clause has started her own online business, Country Mouse Creation. It’s been good therapy for her and she plans to do this as long as Santa allows her to. So visit her sight and keep Mrs. Clause Happy!!  http://www.countrymousecreation.com/ Mrs. Clause has also started a blog post to keep everyone up to date on the business and family during the year so check in with us there for pictures and fun. http://www.countrymousecreationblogspot.com Santa is vowing to work less after the new year and I plan on sunning on the veranda at the new home.

Have a Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year from all of us!