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Impossible! That is what my mother said about the upcoming Christmas<\/a> family reunion. It was our turn to host. \u201cHow can I fit over 50 people into this house?\u201d<\/p>\n

In my bedroom, I looked up from reading about Dick Tracy and his two-way wrist radio. There wasn\u2019t a conversation that went on without the whole house hearing. The place was tiny. It looked like a dollhouse beside our big barn<\/a>. I tried to count up the family members who would be coming.<\/p>\n

There was Mom, Dad, me and my little sister, Rosalie. Mom\u2019s six brothers and sisters. Their children\u2014one of my uncles had 11 kids, another had 9. Some of them had children of their own. I didn\u2019t have to do the math to know Mom was right. They\u2019d never fit in this house.<\/p>\n

I turned the page of my comic and stared in shock at an ad showing that scandalous new bathing suit: a bikini! <\/em>Then Mom\u2019s voice came again from the kitchen. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford a rental hall,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll come up with something,\u201d said Dad. That was his standard response to everything. But he didn\u2019t sound too sure of himself this time.<\/p>\n

A couple of days later Dad came up with his solution. \u201cThere\u2019s plenty of room in the barn,\u201d he told Mom after dinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe barn<\/em>?\u201d Mom said.<\/p>\n

Even I had to gasp. I loved our big barn. It was great for playing hide-and-seek or reading. Dad had hung a rope from the ceiling so we could swing from the hay bales. When I hit the highest point of my swing, I swear I could see all the way to France out the barn windows!<\/p>\n

But swinging was one thing, Christmas dinner<\/a> was another. Would we eat with the chickens? Sit in the cow stalls? Have Christmas in a barn?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll borrow the church\u2019s folding tables and chairs for the adults,\u201d Dad said. \u201cThe kids can sit on the hay bales. I\u2019ll move the tractor and corn-sheller outside for more space.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust make sure everyone knows it wasn\u2019t my <\/em>idea!\u201d Mom said. Then she thought of something. \u201cIt could be freezing on Christmas Eve. How will we heat the fine venue?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll come up with something.\u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t help but root for Dad to find a solution.<\/p>\n

Days passed. Then one afternoon, out of the blue, Dad found the answer. \u201cRemember that old wood stove you wanted to be rid of?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one you insisted on storing in the cellar,\u201d said Mom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll put it in the barn,\u201d Dad said. \u201cThe almanac says we\u2019re due for a mild Christmas. We\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mom marked the days till the reunion on the Purina-Feed calendar. Over the coming weeks, we got the barn into shape. Mom broom-brushed the cobwebbed walls. Rosalie and I swept hay and dust off the concrete floor. Dad \u201cneated-up\u201d the cow stalls.<\/p>\n

Some farmer neighbors helped Dad carry the stove to the barn, stick its exhaust pipe through a window and stock firewood by its side.<\/p>\n

A few days before Christmas, we unfolded the church tables and chairs, spread a festive tablecloth, laid all the places. Dad lit the wood stove to see how it worked. It didn\u2019t take long for the drafty barn to feel warm and cozy.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the front of the stove had a little window made of isinglass. I could see the fire glowing from inside it, casting a warm, beautiful glow. It was like having a fireplace right there in the barn.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re ready,\u201d Mom said. Even she had faith in Dad\u2019s plan now.<\/p>\n

The next day a wicked north wind roared across the Kansas plains, whipping up snow everywhere. Highway 50\u2019s black-licorice asphalt turned white. Black ice crusted the road. Icicles hung from the phone lines and sparkled in the cornfields.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if nobody comes?\u201d I asked Mom. I no longer felt embarrassed about our Christmas barn dinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cAngels sang at Jesus\u2019 first birthday,\u201d said Dad. \u201cThey\u2019ll come to this one and pave the way for our guests.\u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t help thinking that if we were just entertaining angels for Christmas, they could have fit in our tiny little house. But Dad was right. By the time the rooster<\/a> crowed on the day of the reunion, the sky had cleared.<\/p>\n

We were just finishing breakfast when a noise like a coffee grinder split the early morning silence. It was a truck, slip-sliding its way up the lane to our house. My uncle Elmer popped his head out. \u201cBetcha thought we wouldn\u2019t make it clear from Wichita!\u201d he called.<\/p>\n

Aunt Sadie climbed out. \u201cWhere do I put the fried chicken?\u201d<\/p>\n

We led the way into the barn, followed by Uncle Elmer, Aunt Sadie and the eight kids they\u2019d crammed into the backseat. \u201cNeat!\u201d they said when they saw our pot-bellied stove.<\/p>\n

Pickup trucks arrived all day, with more relatives and more food. I ran from the house to the barn, eagerly listening to everyone catching up. \u201cI put up a hundred quarts of tomatoes this year,\u201d Aunt Minnie told the other women in the kitchen. \u201cHeard the Millers got thirty bushels per acre,\u201d<\/p>\n

Uncle Jack was saying to the men by the corral fence. \u201cIsabel, come and play hide-and-seek!\u201d my cousins called from the haymow.<\/p>\n

At dinnertime Mom clanged the cowbell hanging from its strap by the haymow ladder. \u201cCome and get it!\u201d<\/p>\n

We took our places on folding chairs and hay bales. Grandpa read the twenty-third Psalm from the Bible and led us in a blessing.<\/p>\n

We ate, talked and laughed for so long, the cows started bawling to come in for milking. Dad opened the door and in they came, snorting steaming clouds of air all the way to their stalls.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d thought a barn was a strange place for Christmas dinner, but all this time later it remains my favorite setting. Because that year we had everything Jesus did on the first Christmas. We had family, hay, farm animals\u2014and, of course, angels<\/a>. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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