Deirdre woke early, just like every December 25. She tiptoed downstairs, hoping against hope that this would be the year her dream would come true. Her parents were already awake and seated at the kitchen table; that fact alone gave the young girl pause, as they were never downstairs on Christmas morning until much later.

“Morning, sleepy head,” Ben, Deirdre’s father said. “’Bout time you rolled outa the hay!” When Nancy, Deirdre’s mother, tried to hide her giggle behind her coffee cup, Deirdre knew something was up.

So began the short story—or some variation—that I wrote every year growing up. It was my dream to walk downstairs Christmas morning and find a paint horse tied outside the picture window. I, like most girls, was obsessed with horses. Usually that obsession passes like any other fad. Mine didn’t. In fact, it set down roots so firm that not even marriage to a “nonhorse” man could pull them up.

Every year I wrote a similar story, “Dreaming of My Paint Horse,” СКАЧАТЬ

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A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree Real Stories of Hope, Faith and the True Gifts of the Season Jennifer Basye Sander

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PAINTED CHRISTMAS DREAMS DEE AMBROSE-STAHL

A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree. Jennifer Sander Basye
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A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree

Real Stories of Hope, Faith and the True Gifts of the Season

Jennifer Basye Sander

PAINTED CHRISTMAS DREAMS

DEE AMBROSE-STAHL