CHRISTMAS CANDY FOR THE O’FAMILY

About the Book

Christmas Candy for the O’Family is based on something that happened in the house that Lucas lives in. Lucas was five years old when mice stole his candy from his Christmas stocking. The mouse adventure captured the imagination of his parents and his grandparents. This book is written from the story told to B. J., Lucas’s grandfather, by the parents of Lucas on Christmas day.

The story takes place in the time of year when small field mice try to find a warm place to live during the winter. Somehow the field mice can manage to find a home where a cat doesn’t live, and sometimes they will manage to slip by a cat if there is one in the neighborhood.

Lucas was in kindergarten when the mice made their way to his parent’s house where they made their home in an old shoe under Lucas’s bed.

On Christmas Eve two of them gnawed a hole in Lucas’s Christmas stocking and began stealing candy. Tim, Lucas’s father, saw two of the mice carrying one role of sweet tarts to their shoe. When the mice came back, Tim pointed a flashlight beam on them and this frightened one of the mice. In retreating the mouse ran into the wall before running to his hideout.

About the Author

Lucas lives with his parents in a house next to his grandparents. He is currently attending Blue Ridge Elementary School in Warrensville, N. C. Lucas is interested in all kinds of sports and plays soccer. He is a straight-A student and excels in most things he undertakes.

During summer vacation Lucas helps his grandfather around the farm and helps his dad mow the lawn. He likes to hunt on his grandfather’s farm and goes fishing once in awhile.

He loves to read and spends a great deal of his time reading, writing science-fiction stories, and watching sports on TV. He likes to play chess, checkers, and rook.

B. J. is the grandfather of Lucas and lives in a place called the Little Windfall, located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Ashe County, North Carolina, along with his wife Margaret.

B. J. attended business school at night, after serving in the U. S. Air Force. He is a self-taught architectural draftsman, and a building estimator. B. J. is a bi-vocational Baptist Pastor. He has served in mountain churches for the past twenty-eight years while working as an estimator and draftsman. B. J. is presently ministering as pastorate of Big Springs Baptist Church, a small mountain church high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, located in Creston, N.C.