HOW NEWY SAVED SANTA

HOW NEWY SAVED SANTA

Once upon a time, just over 2000 years ago there was an elf named Newy who lived at the North Pole. Newy was very excited about the up coming Christmas season as he was finally old enough to help Santa's other elves make presents for all of the good little boys and girls around the world.

As the letters started to arrive for Santa telling him what the children wanted for Christmas. Newy started to wonder what department he would be working in. Then he got the call from Santa and he was assigned to start in the wood shop. The next morning Newy arrived at the wood shop bright and early. Now the one thing that we haven't mentioned about Newy was his really BIG EARS. His ears were so big that all of the other elves called Newy a nickname and it was EARS. Newy tried to not let the name bother him and he was hoping that now that he was old enough to build toys that the other elves would stop teasing him.

Newy was shown to the table that he would be working at to carve the little wooden toys for the girls and boys. As Newy started to work he started to sing Christmas songs and he started to shake his head to the beat.......OOOOOPs!!!! His ears knocked the elf that was sitting beside him and that caused the elf to drop his toy car that he was building on the ground. Another elf stepped on the car and went crashing across the room like a bowling ball and knocked over all of the other elves that worked in the wood shop. By the time the damage was done all of the elves had at least one bump or bruise and the saddest part was that all of the toys that had been built that morning were damaged. The other elves in the wood shop asked Santa to find Newy a different place to work. Newy was sad.

The next morning Santa told Newy that he would be working in the doll house to help make dolls for the good little boys and girls. Newy was excited that Santa was giving him another chance. Newy ran over to the doll house and asked where he would be working. The elf in charge at the doll house told Newy that he could work in the far back corner so that way if he started to sing and move to his music that he should not bump any of the other elves with his ears. Newy was so excited that he started to run across the room to the spot he was to work at.......OOOOOPs!!!! As Newy was running across the room his ears caught on every piece of thread that the other elves were using to stitch the dolls together. Newy had pulled a giant tangled ball of thread, elves and dolls all of the way across the room. It took hours to free up the elves from their webbed captivity. Newy was not wanted at the doll house either and again was sad.

The following day Santa thought that he had found the perfect position for Newy. Newy could work at the music store. Santa figured Newy could use his ears and help the elves fine tune the musical instruments that they were building so they would sound just right. Newy thought this was a great idea and headed over to the music store right away.

The elf in charge of the music store walked Newy slowly to a chair that was placed in the middle of the room which did not have anything around it for a good ten feet. Newy sat down and all of the elves in the music store breathed a sigh of relief as no accidents had happened. Newy sat there and as the instruments were getting built the elves would ask Newy to listen and get Newy to tell them what needed to be done to make everything sound just right.

Newy did this job right up until Christmas eve. When Santa walked in to collect all of the presents for the good boys and girls he noticed Newy had a tear rolling down his cheek. Santa asked Newy what was wrong and Newy replied that listening to all of the instruments before they sounded just right would give Newy a bad headache everyday. What made Newy even more sad was Newy thought that it was the only job that he could do where his big ears would not cause an accident. Santa told Newy that he would try to find a different job that Newy could do for next year where he would not cause any accidents but for now Santa had to get going to get all of the presents delivered. With his sled filled high Santa was off even though the snow was blowing hard and the weather was getting worse.

Everybody at the North Pole kept a close eye on the magic snow globe that kept Santa's progress as he zipped around the world filling stocking and fulfilling the wish lists of all of the good boys and girls. As the last presents were delivered the storm had turned into the worst blizzard that anybody had ever seen. Everybody hoped Santa would make it home safely and as Santa started to get close to the North Pole the magic snow globe just showed a picture of white blowing snow. Hours passed and still no sign of Santa and still no sign of the blizzard slowing down. Hours turned to days and the days were turning into a week. It was a good thing that Santa ate all of the cookies and the milk that the kids had left out for him and the carrots for the reindeer or they would have starved by now if they were safe.

Newy was wishing that he could do something when he came up with an idea. He told the other elves from the music store that he was going to go searching for Santa. They told Newy that he would get lost in the blowing snow but Newy had thought of that. He told the other elves that they were to play their instruments for five minutes and keep doing this every thirty minutes apart and he would use the sound to guide himself through the blizzard. Newy started on his search for Santa. He did this for hours plowing through the snow and every thirty minutes he would hear the music to help him keep his direction. Just after hearing the music after the sixth hour he heard a rumbling and said to himself that it was to fast for them to be playing the music again. He listened closer and realized the rumbling noise was coming from in front of him and not behind him. Newy raced on ahead and the rumbling got louder and faster. Before you knew it Newy had found Santa and Santa's rumbling belly as he was starting to get hungry as all of the cookies were now gone.

Newy guided Santa and the reindeer back to the North Pole with the help from the music that his fellow elves kept playing. When Newy showed up with Santa everybody cheered as it was now seven days after Santa had left on Christmas eve. There was going to be a party thrown for Newy for how brave he had been to go rescue Santa and that night was going to be dedicated to Newy. The elves from the wood shop worked very quickly to make a very large plaque for Newy to celebrate. That night as the plaque was revealed to dedicate the night to Newy the wood shop elves realized in their haste that they had put the space in the wrong spot. Instead of saying NEWY EARS EVE the plaque said NEW YEARS EVE. Santa said that the elves could make a new plaque but Newy asked them not to because he really did not like his nickname "EARS" and would prefer the night to be known as NEW YEARS EVE. Everybody cheered and from that day forward the night that is seven days after Christmas Eve is known as New Years Eve and Newy's new job is being the rescue chief of the North Pole.