I can’t find our Christmas CDs. I usually keep them out all year, but last
year I inadvertently packed them away with all the other decorations and this
year I did not get out my plethora of boxes because half our house is being
occupied by friends and all their stuff, and there just isn’t room for my
abundance of holiday decor, so the CDs are somewhere in the attic in a box that
probably will not be retrieved for another year. Lord, help me.
One of the highlights of the month of December for our
entire family is listening to Christmas music.
There is not another holiday or event all year long that invokes musical
interludes like the Christmas season, so it is certainly something we cannot
miss. We each have our favorite CDs,
which get played repeatedly until someone else in the house puts a stop to it
and switches it with their favorite.
When I was a kid I listened incessantly to my mom’s
favorites - the likes of Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and Elvis Presley – each
with their own special 33rpm Christmas albums that were stacked up on the turntable
and played throughout the month. I don’t
ever remember my mom dancing at any other time of the year, but when Elvis’ Blue Christmas song came blasting out of
those stereo speakers, she’d start to dance and grab whatever kid was near to
twirl them around the living room and join her in that little holiday thrill.
Music does that to a person. I must
admit, Elvis’ Blue Christmas is one
of my favorites, too, but listening to Clay Aiken singing Mary Did You Know brings me to tears each and every time I hear it,
so it’s a close second. Both songs are good
ones in their own unique ways.
When Kaleb was a preschooler he used to love the song, Feliz Navidad. He had a little guitar
he’d strum and run around the house singing “Feliz Na-bi-da” over and over
again. He kinda sounded like Elvis when
he was doing it and I’m ever so thankful I captured those moments on video, but
like the Christmas CDs, who knows where that is.
Currently, Kaleb loves a group called “Go Fish” and his all time favorite song of theirs is Christmas with a Capital C. That song gets us both up dancing in the living room, singing at the top of our lungs right along with them. It’s good to have such joy in the house.