Day 5: Dig Out the Holiday CDs
The day after Thanksgiving rarely means shopping for me. Instead, it marks the day when radio stations start playing Christmas music all the time. In our area, Light 95.1 plays it. KLove has a special spot on their website where you can listen to their Christmas music. It's a great thing. Christmas music just puts me in the mood to wrap something, buy something, decorate something, bake something, do crafts and sip something hot. That's my version of hibernating. I even save some of the songs that most people sing now (think "Jingle Bells" and "Frosty the Snowman") to teach to my kids in January when we're learning about snow. It's my way of stretching Christmas out just a little bit longer.
Everyone has certain songs that make Christmas for them. I don't think I could celebrate Christmas without Bing Crosby. Not only does he have a great voice for singing Christmas carols, and not only does he star in some of my favorite Christmas movies, but I'm going to let all of you know a little known secret--he's my celebrity crush. I do realize he is dead (which makes Danny happy to let me have this crush), but I can watch him in black and white and listen to him sing "White Christmas" like no one else can, and it just doesn't matter. We have a couple of his Christmas CDs and yesterday while putting up the tree Kim realized that our favorite was missing. I actually think we had this problem last year too. Cars were searched, every Christmas CD case checked (and we have quite a few), we went through my CDs-- but it is gone. We thought about burning a copy from the computer but then Lauren realized we didn't have the whole album saved on there. We ordered a new copy. Hopefully it will be here by Christmas. After all, you can't have Christmas without Bing.
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