Nate’s Monday Morning Message Volume 1,300

Nate’s Monday Morning Message Volume 1,300: Warm Holiday Wishes

Welcome to this week’s Monday Morning Message! Its hard to believe we are ushering in the last two weeks of 2025! As we are preparing to celebrate the holiday this week, I want to take a moment to wish you and your loved ones a very joyful holiday season. This is a time for reflection, gratitude, and togetherness, and I’m truly thankful for the relationships and trust we share.

Whether this year brought new beginnings, important milestones, or quiet moments at home, I hope your week is filled with warmth, peace, and meaningful time with those who matter most. From our family at RE/MAX Professionals to yours, thank you for allowing us to be part of your journey.

Wishing you a happy, healthy and safe holiday! Let’s make it a great week!

ENCOURAGEMENT CORNER

A Visit from St. Nicholas, by Clement Clarke Moore

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds;

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,

Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,

Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,

When what to my wondering eyes did appear,

But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,

With a little old driver so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,

And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:

“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!”

As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;

So up to the housetop the coursers they flew

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too—

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my head, and was turning around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,

And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly

That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—

“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43171/a-visit-from-st-nicholas

WORDS OF INSPIRATION

“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.” - Andy Rooney

“The joke may be that no one likes fruitcake, but if that were the case, they wouldn’t appear on store shelves every holiday season!” - Harley Pasternak

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” - Dale Evans

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