Celebrate the holidayswith the marvelous gift ofhumor!Holidays can be both fun and frustrating, can't they? All the chaos that goes with the holidays can make you grin or groan. What you need for happy holidays is to have your stocking stuffed with tasty bits of humor.Imagine reaching into your stocking and finding a hilarious story by Patsy Clairmont, pulling out funny-bone ticklers by Martha Bolton, Jack Hayford, and Tim Wildmon, and discovering goodies to make you giggle by many other gifted writers.So grab a cup of wassail, curl up in your favorite chair, and indulge yourself with this heart-lifting book of holiday cheer -- it's stuffed full of special surprises to raise your spirits and add joy to your world!

Shari MacDonald is the author of numerous Christian novels and editor of several humor compilations, including Humor for a Moms Heart and Humor for the Holidays. She and her husband live in Portland, Oregon.

Chapter 1: Christmas Is Coming, Tra-La, Tra,La...

All I Want for Christmas Is a Parking Place

Dave Barry

2

(1)

The Best Laid Plans

Karen Scalf Linamen

3

(4)

Thanksgiving Rolls Around, and So Do the Dishes

Marti Attoun

7

(2)

A Thanksgiving Recipe

G. Ron Darbee

9

Who Needs Cookbooks When You've Got a Phone?

Marti Attoun

7

(10)

On Wings Like Turkeys

Chris Fabry

17

(4)

Fowl Play! (How Not to Be a Turkey at the Thankgsgiving Table)

Marti Attoun

21

(3)

When You Need a Little Christmas...Now

Becky Freeman

24

(2)

Shop Til You Drop

Karen scalf Linamen

26

(6)

Chapter 2: The Chaos Theory of Christmas

But Can She Drive a Sleigh?

Shirley Temple

32

(1)

Christmas, a Labor of Love

Karen Scalf Linamen

33

(4)

Lights, Camera...Too Much Action

Jim Killam

37

(4)

A So-Called Tree and Thee

Charlene Ann Baumbich

41

(5)

Dear Santa

Debbie Farmer

46

(3)

Merry Christmas (with Cramps)

Jack Hayford

49

(4)

Are You Sure the Wise Men Wore Turtlenecks?

Martha Bolton

53

(2)

It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas

Karen Scalf Linamen

55

(4)

See Mother, Funny, Funny Mother

Author unknown

59

(5)

Chapter 3: The Gift of Christmas

Separating the Men from the Boys

Lee Daniel Quinn

64

(1)

Things Never to Give Your Wife for Christmas

Author unknown

65

(2)

Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Slippers

Lynn Bowen Walker

67

(3)

What Goes Up Must Come Down

Martha Bolton

70

(3)

The Gift That Keeps On Giving (Unfortunatley)

Dave Meurer

73

(7)

Christmas Shenanigans

Robert Hansen

80

(5)

Show Me the Money

C. Ellen Watts

85

(1)

Gifts That Make Mom a Packrat

Martha Bolton

86

(2)

Putting the "X" in X-mas

Paul M. Hampton

88

(1)

Gifts That Keep on Giving (Me a Headache)

Patsy Clairmont

89

(6)

Some Assembly Required (and a Little Prozac Wouldn't Hurt Either)

Martha Bolton

Gift Giving Misgivings

Tom Wildmon

95

(5)

Chapter 4: Peas on Earth...and Other Tasty Holiday Tidbits

Good Stuff(ing)

Author unknown

100

(1)

All Fired Up for the Ladies' Christmas Coffee

Becky Freeman

101

(4)

A Turkey of a Dinner

Jana Kaumeyer

105

(1)

Where's the Fire?

Martha Bolton

106

(3)

Baking Cookies? Bah! Humbug!

Tina Krause

109

(4)

Tis the Season

G. Ron Darbee

113

(5)

Holiday Memories

Dale Hanson Bourke

118

(3)

Is the Turkey Burned Yet?

Martha Bolton

121

(2)

The Call of the Popcorn

Becky Freeman

123

(3)

When Is a Leg Like an Ear?

Mary Wanda Little

126

(1)

Let There Be Peas on Earth

Laura Jensen Walker

127

(5)

Chapter 5: The Spirit of Christmas

Just in Time for Christmas

Johnny Carons

132

(1)

No Wonder Jesus Loves the Little Children

Christy Ehmann

133

(1)

An Imperfect Christmas

Dave Meurer

134

(4)

Christmas Without Grandma Kay

Robin Jones Gunn

138

(5)

We Two Kings...

Martha Bolton

143

(3)

A Christmas for One

Dave Meurer

146

(6)

The Last Gift

Phil Callaway

152

(6)

Chapter 6: Until Next Year

Make Every Day "Christmas"

Charles Dickens

158

(1)

The Secret to Foolproof Resolutions

Karen Scalf Linamen

159

(4)

'Twas the Thirty Days After Christmas

Charlene Ann Baumbich

163

(6)

Contributors

169

(4)

Source Notes

173

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