Kealan comes filled with enthusiasm to each writing class and gets better each time she picks up and creates with a pen.

 ANOTHER CHRISTMAS TALE, THIS TIME A 9-YEAR-OLD REVEALS A SNIPPET OF  A CHRISTMAS FAIRY’S LIFE; DID YOU KNOW THERE WAS  SUCH A THING AS A CHRISTMAS FAIRY?

Dear Readers: The countdown is here. I hope you’ve done all your X-mas shopping and that you’ve let Santa know exactly what should be on his list. One of the students wrote this in the Seven Golden Secrets to Writing class. I’m still wondering why I never knew about the Christmas Fairy. Merry Christmas  -- Diana

The Little Girl and The Christmas Fairy

By Kealan, 9

Once there was a little girl. Her name was McKenna. She loved Christmas because she believed in Jesus. It was Christmas Eve and McKenna stayed up late. Then all of a sudden, she saw an eerie, glowing light.

That’s when she saw the Christmas Fairy!

She asked: “What are you doing here?”

“I’m a Christmas Fairy,” the fairy replied in a sweet voice. “I’m here to give you all your Christmas wishes and gifts.”

“OOOh!” McKenna said with surprise.

“Go back to sleep or else you won’t get anything, but coal,” the Christmas Fairy told her.

So McKenna went to bed.

When she woke up, she saw presents filled her stocking sitting under the Christmas tree.

Don’t ask me about the stunning Christmas tree, because that’s another story. Fine, O.K. I will tell you that story, because I know you want to know it anyway. I’m the narrator and it’s my job to tell the whole story.

When McKenna, her mother, and her sister, Kealan, went to pick up a tree, they found the perfect fir. So they bought it and went home. They decorated it with sparkling and shiny ornaments. Suddenly – although no one noticed -- the same exact fairy showed up as the tree topper. When everyone was asleep – I mean fast asleep – the fairy got down from the tree and gathered up a ton of candy and fruit.

When she did that, a light twinkled in her eye and a bunch of presents appeared under the tree and all the stockings were filled. Before everyone woke up – and after her quick visit to McKenna --  she flew up to the top of tree again .

As always on Christmas morning, McKenna woke up last.

When she finally stumbled into the living room and looked at the Christmas tree she pointed up to the fairy and gasped:

 “She is real!”

Her parents just laughed. Only Kealan truly believed her.