'Tis the week before Christmas

and all through the house

There's hurrying and scurrying

Yes, even the mouse...

So busy with decorations

Projects of all kinds

The handmade gifts will be

a delightful surprise

Mounds of packages stacked

to wrap and to tie

Scent of cookies baking waft

heavenward up to the sky

The tree's a twinkle

The baby's smile glows

The children are excited

about Santa, you know

Will their behavior be good enough

so that Santa, for sure, with his bag

full of toys will enter the

chimney this year?

The outside is trimed with

hundreds of lights

No one can miss this house

Even on less than a moonlight night

Oh, the anticipation

of Uncle Ernie and Aunt Sue

Coming for a visit from Idaho, too

Is there a time of the year

more exciting than this?

This week before Christmas....

Will the Christ Child appear?

The cards are all sent

Do you know who we missed?

For the love flows all around us

This week before Christmas

D. J. Hausman-Hill

Lititz