A Trapp Family Christmas With the Heaths

Just in case you decide to spend a wholly spiritual Christmas like the Trapps, don’t. Ask Mrs. Heath. She knows. She knows. She knows.

One of the reasons—I say one of the reasons because I could easily think of another if I put my mind to it— that I kept on having babies for years after all my classmates had worked up to president of the State PTA was that I always thought a big family would be such fun at Christmas. Which who doesn’t, including people like me, who know? I know why my husband Ben has the Spirit of Christmas around Thanksgiving and the Spirit of Ash Wednesday around Christmas. I keep telling him I know. “I know,” I say. “I know. I know. I know.”

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Aloïse Buckley Heath

Aloïse Buckley Heath (1918–1967) was the sister of National Review’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr.

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Just in case you decide to spend a wholly spiritual Christmas like the Trapps, don’t. Ask Mrs. Heath. She knows. She knows. She knows.

One of the reasons—I say one of the reasons because I could easily think of another if I put my mind to it— that I kept on having babies for years after all my classmates had worked up to president of the State PTA was that I always thought a big family would be such fun at Christmas. Which who doesn’t, including people like me, who know? I know why my husband Ben has the Spirit of Christmas around Thanksgiving and the Spirit of Ash Wednesday around Christmas. I keep telling him I know. “I know,” I say. “I know. I know. I know.”