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Gary Wilkes
The Tannenbaum Twirl A Christmas Tale
The Tannenbaum Twirl A Christmas Tale
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Saturday, the seventeenth of December in 1960. That's where the tale begins. We find the Cramdon Family in their adventurous pursuit for the Family Christmas Tree. Their choice of trees turns out anything but perfect and the decorated tree in their home quickly dries out loosing most of its needles before Christmas arrives. Again the Family travels out on a cold snowy Christmas eve night to find a new tree to replace the first tree which has become a fire hazard in their home. This cold family adventure in finding a new tree ends up being the makings of a wonderful family Christmas.
Fast Forward 27 years:
Jerry Cramdon middle child in that Cramdon Family in 1960, now with a family of his own, has always tried to find ways to make the Holidays as special and happy for his family as that special Christmas he had when he was ten. Through strings of events Jerry manages to have his own Christmas tree lot for his family to run together during the holidays thinking surely this will bring the magic and happiness of Christmas to them all. His families thrill of selling Christmas trees is short lived. The amount of time needed to be spent at the tree lot cutting into other things that need to be handled during an already busy holiday time causes problems and discontent rather than family Christmas magic. Jerry hires a young boy who rode his bike to the tree lot one afternoon and asked for a job thinking this will help letting his wife and children have more time off to take care of things they want to do. Things turn worse when money ends up missing from the tree lot sales. Everything seems wrong and nothing like the wonderful Christmas Jerry hoped for his family.
In the end sad stories can change. With unsuspected characters like a homeless old man named Digger and his dog. A struggling single mother and her three kids.
Jerry finds out something that year. Something that had taken him 27 years to realize. The Best and most memorable Christmas is not the one that you plan out. It isn't the one you spend time and money on. It's the one that comes from the heart. It's the one that comes with giving of oneself. The greatest gifts received are the true feelings of knowing you gave something special and needed to someone else. The Cramdon Family had many wonderful Christmases in the years to come. Jerry understood as his children got older and discussed wanting to have another Christmas just like that year. He knew and understood his children asking to go help at the homeless shelters on Christmas Eve. He knew and understood his children wanting to wait and put up their Christmas tree and decorate it on Christmas Eve. He knew the feeling they were looking for. He knew they wanted to have and feel that special spirit at Christmas time. He also knew they may spend many years trying to find it, even with their own families, and he hoped they would one day have that opportunity come along, not planned, not prepared for, but, a chance they will take advantage of not even knowing at the time that they're receiving it. It will become their special Christmas. It will become, their very own, Tannenbaum Twirl.
Fast Forward 27 years:
Jerry Cramdon middle child in that Cramdon Family in 1960, now with a family of his own, has always tried to find ways to make the Holidays as special and happy for his family as that special Christmas he had when he was ten. Through strings of events Jerry manages to have his own Christmas tree lot for his family to run together during the holidays thinking surely this will bring the magic and happiness of Christmas to them all. His families thrill of selling Christmas trees is short lived. The amount of time needed to be spent at the tree lot cutting into other things that need to be handled during an already busy holiday time causes problems and discontent rather than family Christmas magic. Jerry hires a young boy who rode his bike to the tree lot one afternoon and asked for a job thinking this will help letting his wife and children have more time off to take care of things they want to do. Things turn worse when money ends up missing from the tree lot sales. Everything seems wrong and nothing like the wonderful Christmas Jerry hoped for his family.
In the end sad stories can change. With unsuspected characters like a homeless old man named Digger and his dog. A struggling single mother and her three kids.
Jerry finds out something that year. Something that had taken him 27 years to realize. The Best and most memorable Christmas is not the one that you plan out. It isn't the one you spend time and money on. It's the one that comes from the heart. It's the one that comes with giving of oneself. The greatest gifts received are the true feelings of knowing you gave something special and needed to someone else. The Cramdon Family had many wonderful Christmases in the years to come. Jerry understood as his children got older and discussed wanting to have another Christmas just like that year. He knew and understood his children asking to go help at the homeless shelters on Christmas Eve. He knew and understood his children wanting to wait and put up their Christmas tree and decorate it on Christmas Eve. He knew the feeling they were looking for. He knew they wanted to have and feel that special spirit at Christmas time. He also knew they may spend many years trying to find it, even with their own families, and he hoped they would one day have that opportunity come along, not planned, not prepared for, but, a chance they will take advantage of not even knowing at the time that they're receiving it. It will become their special Christmas. It will become, their very own, Tannenbaum Twirl.
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