Friday, December 22, 2023

Merry Christmas 2023

There once was an Illinois home

Which its children had left all alone

Except for the mom

And the pop, they had gone

To make families all of their own.


But at Christmas they always came back

All to gather and all to unpack

All the gifts they had bought

And had wrapped and had brought

'Neath the Christmas tree where they'd be stacked


Fifteen children will gather that morn

(That's how many who now have been born

To six sons and their wives),

Oh, how rich and alive

Will the house be that they will adorn!


Lately two were born just this same year,

And while no one has news we might hear

Of another, we know

there are bound to be more

Since the fam'lies keep growing, Oh dear!


Of the six fam'lies five are nearby

In the same state or just 'cross the line

And the one far away

Now draws near to the day

they will move near, next year, in springtime!


So together they all can enjoy

the great birth of that heavenly Boy

Who has take away

All our sin and dismay

For a new life no one can destroy.

God rest ye merry, this Christmas 2023 and always -- the Eckardts

(Pictured below: Burnie and Amanda's three: Mikey #6, Bevy #3, Millie #4; Andy and Kristy's two (with us): David #2 and Sarah #1; Peter's son Ezra #8; Johnny and Alissa's five: Paul #14, Hazel #5, Ada #7, Megan #9, Luke #11; Joey and Emily's three: Elizabeth #13, Mary #15, Jane #10; Michael and Brittany's daughter Bella #12







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