CHRISTMAS!!

Christmas!!!

I love Christmas!! I can't help it, I always have. There's just something about the lights, the decorations, the songs, the food. I love it all. It's always been my favorite time of the year and yes I'm one of those people that if I could I would listen to Christmas music all year round.

One of my fondest Christmas memories is making a Christmas music album my senior year of high school (winter of 1988 to be exact!). Our choir recorded an album inside a church and we were there for about 14-15 hours. I loved every minute of it! I still play the tape every year.

My Mom is coming to spend Christmas with us this year and I'm so excited! She's going to be here for 8 days and it's going to be so much fun!! I'm also happy because every year she does so much to try to make Christmas special for everyone and it will be nice for me to return the favor for her this year. She can just sit back, relax and take in a Vancouver Christmas!

Okay enough Christmas talk for now, need to get to bed soon! I will end with my Top 5 Christmas Songs of All-Time:

5. Santa Claus is Coming to Town (believe it or not we sing this to our daughter as a lullaby! Works every time! If she's not ready for bed she says, "Uh-uh!! E-I-E-I-O!!")

4. Winter Wonderland (I sing this song all year-round, helps me to get stupid songs out of my head when I sing it.)

3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (preferably the version by Tori Amos)

2. Tie - O Holy Night & What Child is This?

1. Carol of the Bells (as sung by the Ottawa Township High School class of 1989!!)

Although really this list should be broken down into top 5 traditional and contemporary Christmas songs! That blog is for a different day! Maybe when it gets a little closer to the actual day ;)...

Oh and by the way....I found more cross-stitch ornaments!! Apparently LewisCraft was hording them all! WOOT!