Several years ago the children’s choir was performing their part of the church Christmas program and my nephew, who was six, had a small verse to sing.
He knew the words perfectly but when he stood in front of all those people he forgot all of it. I could see that he was struggling but finally he started singing the first thing that came to mind, a little ditty that my brother had taught him.
Jingle bells
Shotgun shells
Rabbits all the way
One jumped up,
Shot him in the butt,
The other one got away.
Everyone laughed and turned to look at my brother who tried to sink through the pew, and his wife, who slapped him on the back of his head.
------------------------------------
Over the past few years I have made my own holiday traditions. Around Christmas time I buy a bottle of Godiva chocolate liqueur and a bottle of Bailey’s. A couple of fingers of these mixed in equal parts makes the best chocolate milk ever. It’s great to sip one on a cold night sitting in front of the fire with a good book and some boys singing carols on the stereo.
I always save a few vacation days for that period between Christmas and the New Year. The house is decorated with lights and greenery and ornaments, the gifts have been exchanged and everyone has gone home, the candles smell of cinnamon and the Vienna boys are keeping me company. If I’m lucky there will be snow.
Maybe I shouldn’t tell this, but one thing I like to do each year is to make a compilation CD of my favorite Christmas music and give it to my friends. I find some pretty picture on the internet to use as a CD cover and slap a title on it, then I buy those round adhesive labels and print them to put on each disc. It all looks pretty professional.
I have a lot of Christmas albums by boy choirs so it’s fun and sometimes hard to pick my favorite version of each song, but it's a gift that everyone enjoys receiving.
This may not be exactly legal to do (so don‘t tell Libera), but I only make a dozen copies and they are for people who would not buy the albums anyway. I feel like I’m doing a good thing by promoting the artists and, besides, I think if I was really being bad I wouldn’t get so many cool new CD’s from Santa.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Giggles....I love your nephew's version. If you are committing a crime, your not the only one. I do the same thing as you, create a Xmas album of various songs to give as a present.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, I was wandering what program others use for a player on their computer. I have tried many but for some time now I have used Quintessential Media Player. It has great features and I really like the "Dynamic Library" and "Search" features.
I always use the Windows Media player as a default player on the computer and iTunes to burn my cd's. I burn a copy of each one as soon as I get it so the originals always stay in their cases. Thank goodness technology is simple enough even for me.
ReplyDelete