Well, Christmas Day is finally here. I went to a wonderful Christmas Eve Service last night at the Puyallup CofC Congregation. Afterwards my mom and I drove down to have Christmas at the Hergert home in Ethel, WA. We will be here until tomorrow morning. Then tomorrow afternoon I will be having a Christmas dinner with my dad and brothers at my dad’s home.
I am happy to say that I finished all my Christmas shopping last Sunday! With 4 days to spare! LOL!
Here are my two most favorite Christmas Songs:
“Mary, Did You Know?”
I love both of these versions of the song:
Kathy Mattea version
Kenny Rogers/Wynonna version
“It Wasn’t His Child”
Skip Ewing version
One of my other favorite Christmas Songs is “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”. This year Lady Antebellum recorded a version of it that the radio has just been eating up! This is them singing it on the Today show yesterday.
Just a few more days until Christmas. I am still not done with shopping. Oh well I mean I still have 5 whole days to go, right? PLENTY OF TIME! LOL!
So, for some of my favorites for this week’s Christmas music:
“Joy To the World” - Michael Bolton
This is my favorite version of this song. I think Michael gets a lot of undeserved flack is one of the most undervalued singers out there.
“Oh Holy Night” – Martina McBride
She is one of my favorite female vocalists of all time and shows us why on this song! Absolutely Wonderful!
“A Baby Changes Everything” – Faith Hill
This is the first Christmas single from Faith’s new Christmas CD. I already love this song and think it is sure to become a Christmas classic!
“This is the Time” – Michael Bolton and Wynonna
This song can be found on the same CD as his version of “Joy to the World. I love Christmas love songs! Adds to the magic of the season. I think it is a great Christmas love song!
We are getting closer! Have you purchased all your gifts yet? Yeah, me neither!
So, this week I have another two Christmas songs. The first one is “I’ll be home for Christmas”. This version is by Rascal Flatts. It’s not that I have always been a fan of this song but this version has changed that. I LOVE it! It is done acapella. The second is my favorite Christmas Song. That would be “Go Tell It On The Mountain”. This version is from Toby Keith and Jewel.
Rascal Flatts – “I’ll be home for Christmas”
Toby Keith and Jewel – “Go Tell It On The Mountain”
Hard to believe it but there is only 19 days until Christmas! I have purchased some gifts but still have some more to do. Some years I am really good and get most of my gifts in October and November and then some years I shop on Christmas Eve! Hopefully I will be done before Christmas Eve. We shall see!
So, this week I choose “The Secret of Giving” by Reba McEntire as one of my favorite Christmas Songs. It is from one of my Christmas CD’s, “Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection” by Reba McEntire. The song coincided with a made for TV movie of the same name that Reba starred in. One of my favorite made for TV Christmas movies.
Here is a video for the song:
Additionally, one of my favorite Christmas movies of all time is “The Preacher’s Wife”. Part of that is because of Whitney’s voice on such songs such as this great version of “Joy to the World”:
So, for this week’s Holiday song in preparation for Christmas I choose one of my favorites. It is by Garth Brooks and is called “Baby Jesus Is Born”. You will find it on his “The Magic of Christmas” CD. I just love this Christmas song and have always wanted to hear a choir sing it during a worship service at church. Hope this Holiday Season is treating you well so far!
So, before today I had yet to get in to the Holiday Spirit! I have actually been dreading it because I am not prepared. Every year I say I am going to start shopping early but do I? NO! Well, I have actually been doing a lot of Christmas shopping lately. Part of my job is working for our Guardianship department and therefore I have to get Christmas gifts for all 26 of my Guardianship clients. I think I have finished with like 20 of them so far. Event hat hasn’t gotten me in the Holiday Spirit though.
It sure hit me today though! I had to run to the store to get some wrapping paper, bows, and tags so I could have my co-worker wrap the gifts I have purchased thus far. As soon as I started looking at the paper, I got in the Christmas mood! I think it was a combination of seeing everything there as well as the smell that was in the air. You know, the smell of peppermint, pine, etc. All of a sudden, I wanted to listen to Christmas music!
On my way to purchase the Christmas accessories I stopped by the Holiday Candy aisle. I bought two thins from that aisle! Bad, I know! The first was peppermint white chocolate Hershey’s kisses. The second was a bag of those little Hershey’s chocolate miniatures. Though, this one was a limited edition mint chocolates. It had White Creme with Peppermint, Mint Milk Chocolate and a Dark Chocolate with Mint. My co-workers and I loved these new found chocolate goodies.
So, in preparation for the Holiday Season and to help me further get in the mood, here are some Christmas Music Video’s. They are both from SheDaisy and are from their Christmas CD, which just happens to be my favorite Christmas CD of all time!
