Teddy's Housesitting Rescue
Rescuing his friend’s home, a handsome crystal jar, was all that Teddy wanted to do. Hidden behind woven cupboards doors, he could only hear all the Christmas goings on. He didn’t know that when it had been filled with his friends who only came out once a year. There were glittering Christmas globes, a little bell woven from grass and even a shiny Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! A green garland wrapped around it, with more decorations hung from its branches. Now the beautiful jar sat empty. All the fun and sparkles gone into a box. When he heard the other decorations talking about ‘going into a dark box’ his fuzzy ears tingled. They didn’t seem to mind though. The old porcelain cat growled “I can finally get some good sleep. Getting hung up wherever she wants me ruins my nap.” The others were just silent, used to porcelain cat and his grumbling. The were ready to get put to bed. Teddy didn’t know what to do, afraid their shiny home would be put in a box and hidden away ~ empty and lonely.
One day, his cupboard door opened, he was picked up and told “I think you’d really look good in that jar. I really don’t want to hide it away in some closet, down the basement or out in the cold!” Teddy’s black thread nose twitched and he could hardly believe his soft ears. Then he was put inside the big jar, sitting on something soft and warm. “You fit perfectly!” Teddy was happy. He could safely take care of his friend’s home and watch the comings and goings of……..he didn’t know what to call them so he just called them his new friends.
“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children
is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”
~ C.S.Lewis
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