Christmas Songs!

I love Christmas songs. There is a station in Baltimore that switches their whole playlist over to Christmas songs after Thanksgiving. The worst part about the station is their commercial breaks are like 10 minutes long, but we just turn the sound down for that.

It has been rewarding and delightful how cheery and willing our children have been to listen to and sing along with Christmas songs. Somehow we've avoided any grumpiness about the cheesiness or commercialism of Christmas that seems to afflict kids sometimes as they grow into an awareness of the "real" world. Here are some of the songs that have been favorites this year.



I wish there was a real video for this, and not just a karaoke prompt. But it's still one I love to catch when it comes on.



I still remember the year that Max's middle school choir sang this. Nine boys awkwardly shifting from foot to foot trying to his the low notes, it was still awesome.



This was a song that Max's choir sang this year. *Superb*. Christmas, funny, *and* full of puns.



Everytime this comes on the radio, the kids sing along with fervor and delight.



We love Christmas carols, Christmas hymns, funny, serious, reverent ones. I was touched last night as we carolled from house to house by a Father my age who told me he had never had carollers come to his home before.

Merry Christmas!

Sing some songs!