Some Christmas Music

Let’s listen to some Christmas music!

I bought this CD, I think about twenty-five years ago- back when they used to have actual CD stores. I picked it up for a few dollars, thinking it might be something the kids would enjoy, and I was right. It quickly became a favorite.

I would sometimes play it in the house, but I would almost always play it whenever we would go on one of our may rides together - often just to look at the Christmas lights. The kids would sing along belting out, “Us be Santa…,” which I still feel is not only better, but somehow more appropriate as well.

I never would have imagined that after all these years later, I would still be listening to it. But Sam likes me to put it on when we run errands or when we are also looking at Christmas lights together.

And while he doesn’t belt out the tunes like his siblings did, it’s nice to hear him singing along, quietly to himself, stopping only to point out some more pretty lights. And, just like with his brother and sisters, if a song isn’t over when we pull into our driveway, we sit in the car together and listen until it ends.

I kind of like that, too.