"A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote

"Christmas Eve afternoon we scrape together a nickel and go to the butcher's to buy Queenie's traditional gift, a good gnawable beef bone. The bone, wrapped in funny paper, is placed high in the tree near the silver star. Queenie knows it's there. She squats at the foot of the tree staring up in a trance of greed: when bedtime arrives she refuses to budge. Her excitement is equaled by my own."...

... this is a quote from Truman Capote's short story "A Christmas Memory" (first published December 1956). This is the single best story about Christmas I have ever read! If you have time over the holidays, make yourself comfortable, wrap yourself in a quilt for some time and read this wonderful story!

It's available online for example here: 

http://www.sailthouforth.com/2009/12/christmas-memory.html

Merry Christmas!

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

BY Jane Taylor

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, 

How I wonder what you are! 

Up above the world so high, 

Like a diamond in the sky. 

When the blazing sun is gone, 

When he nothing shines upon, 

Then you show your little light, 

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. 

Then the traveler in the dark 

Thanks you for your tiny spark, 

How could he see where to go, 

If you did not twinkle so? 

In the dark blue sky you keep, 

Often through my curtains peep 

For you never shut your eye, 

Till the sun is in the sky. 

As your bright and tiny spark 

Lights the traveler in the dark, 

Though I know not what you are, 

Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

Source: The Golden Book of Poetry (1947)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43200/twinkle-twinkle-little-star

This classic children's poem was first published by Jane Taylor in 1806.

Christmas Season

"Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, 
but he let them laugh ...
His own heart laughed: 

and that was quite enough for him."

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

https://www.shmoop.com/christmas-carol/stave-5-full-text-6.html

It's the beginning of the Christmas season,

may everyone have a good time!

The picture above shows a table runner with four "Ohio Stars".