I love Christmas music. I could listen to it year round! Seems like I can hardly wait for the day after Thanksgiving so I can "legally" listen to it and sing along without the people around me looking at me like I've lost my mind!! But what's with some of the stuff on the radio? Some of it just sounds stressful - so fast paced - rush rush - aaaahhh!! Have you tried singing along to some of this stuff? I thought I knew the words and melody to practically every Christmas song ever written (ok maybe not all of them, but a lot of them), but lately as I drive down the road, trying to sing along, it seems some of these artists add notes and words that just don't seem to belong in the "classic" Christmas songs. Some things are just better left alone - let's face it - nobody sings White Christmas like Bing Crosby. And absolutely, nobody, I mean nobody sings The Christmas Song (you know - Chestnuts roasting on an open fire), like Nat King Cole. Granted, this is just my humble opinion, and I understand everyone enjoys different types of music. Rather than keep desperately hitting the "seek" button on my car radio, hoping to find a Christmas song I can sing along to, I have decided to make a CD with all of my Christmas favorites on it and leave it in my car! Less chance for road rage that way. There is something soothing about good music. Don't you just love it when you hear a Christmas carol that reminds you of somebody and while you are singing along, a million pictures and memories of special times with that person come to mind? This past Saturday, my mom, my sister Shell and oldest daughter, Sarah, were at my house for a Christmas baking day (we have to do it again when Beth gets home from college for Christmas - we missed her wit and humor. Well, and let's be honest here - we could have used another pair of hands to roll all of that candy in to balls and dip it in to vast amounts of chocolate!) . . .anyway . . . we were baking and listening to Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Bing Crosby croon to the Christmas classics! Their harmonious voices were the perfect background, setting the tone for a day we will all look back on and remember. What is it about Christmas music that touches us so deeply sometimes? Last week, Beth called me from college; she was walking to class and her hectic day suddenly came to a peaceful halt when she heard the choir rehearsing O Holy Night in the auditorium. She told me it gave her goosebumps and brought tears to her eyes. (She inherited my emotional side - sorry Beth!). She held her phone in the doorway of the auditorium so I could hear . . . it brought a tear to my eye as well. Perhaps I was taken by the glorious sound of the ESU Choir; perhaps I was touched by my daughter's emotion. Maybe both. Or perhaps I realized at that moment just how much I miss my youngest and how anxious I am to have her home for Christmas . . .
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