caroling

I.
Love.
Christmas music.

 I can't deny it.  I start listening the day after Thanksgiving and don't stop until December 26th.  I love the fact that there is this giant collection of songs that are reserved only for this short window of time.  I've got to get them while the getting is good and I never get sick of them.

In our house and in our car we pretty much have Christmas carols on all the time.  There is a radio station here that plays them round the clock.  If we ever don't have them on, like, say at 7am when we come down for breakfast, Eloise likes to say "Speaking of (insert whatever we were talking about whether it is related to Christmas carols or not) why aren't we listening to any Christmas music?"  Then we switch on the radio and hope it is not that Home Run Pizza commercial.

I like to belt out  sing just about every Christmas song that comes on and I know most of the words to all of them. (Are you thinking that you are glad you haven't been invited over to our house lately?)  When I am with both girls, Eloise and I like to dance and make up actions to go along with the words.  If it is a really "groovy" one she has to run and put her tutu on.  If I am just with Harriet I like to lip sync along with the radio in an effort to fool her into thinking that I have the voice of  Celine or Mariah...or sometimes Josh.
 I think it's working.

My most favorite Christmas album for years has been Aaron Neville's Soulful Christmas.  It is my dad's favorite as well, and I think I stole it from him originally but have since replaced it.  I am not picky when it comes to my carols though.  I pretty much love them all from the old standards to the new pop-y ones.
This year we added the Glee Christmas album to our collection and, as you can imagine, it is loved by all.  My absolute favorite is Kurt and Blaine's version of Baby It's Cold Outside.  Blaine just makes me swoon.

Very soon after we got the new Glee cd it was cut up and made into a collage for the season.  I was laughing so hard when Eloise had the idea to put the little talk bubbles on Finn and Rachel.  She said, "We should cut out those little circles with the points you know and put one on Rachel that says 'Oh, Finn', and one on Finn that says, 'Oh Rachel', because they are friends, you know, and we can put little hearts around them and stuff."

Speaking of little hearts and stuff, why aren't we listening to any Christmas music?

merry christmas