Anthony Arcara

Anthony Arcara is the husband of Catherine, and father of Helen and Peter. He is featured in The Twelve Signs of Christmas.

Anthony, like his wife, is quite the prolific baker; they are fond of making Christmas cookies, and begin the week before Thanksgiving. He made 96 pecan tassies in the first week of Advent, only for sixty-three of them to be eaten by Barkley, the family dog. Other mishaps that day included the kittens chewing through the wax paper on a stick of butter and licking it to pieces.

He tells the story of the Feast of the Seven Fishes to Helen. He likes calamari, though his daughter does not.

Anthony sees the value of Catherine's thank-you note list, matching the gifts with the givers.

He seems to have a good sense of humor. His relationship with his mother is possibly not the best, however, hinted at in the Tenth Sign of Christmas - though that may have been a joke.

He's also the one who explains to Helen how they plan to stretch out her gifts over the twelve days of Christmas, and reads from the beginning of the book of John on Christmas Day.