Christmas Playlist

becky    General    

We always wait until after Thanksgiving to get out the Christmas tree (we used two trees as decoration at the church for our wedding-we have one, my parents have the other) and start playing the Christmas music.  Once it’s on though, it’s ON.  At no other time of the year do I make sure we play music as much as in the weeks leading up to Christmas.  I’m not sure how the songs relating to snow will go over when it’s 90 degrees outside, but for now we’ll enjoy them with all the cold weather.  I really like the Christmas albums we play over and over.

Here’s the list of albums:
City On a Hill: It’s Christmas Time-Various Artists
Elvis’ Christmas Album-Elvis Presley
Everything Glorious-Travis Cottrell
Hear Those Bells-Russ Lee
Home for Christmas-Amy Grant
How Many Kings-downhere
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker-performed by Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
This Night-Hope’s Call
A Very Veggie Christmas-Veggie Tales (I have actually owned this since it came out like 10 years ago)

I like that these albums have come into my life at different times and each one is special for one reason or another.

These are specific songs I particularly like:
Baby Boy-Russ Lee–I have boys, enough said.
Give Me This Night-Hope’s Call–such a beautiful song. I’ve come to identify with Mary a lot more since having children of my own.
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring-from Amy Grant’s Home for Christmas–my bridesmaids walked down the aisle to this song at our wedding
How Many Kings-downhere
Gift Carol-downhere
O Holy Night
Silent Night-I often sang this to Samuel leading up to his first Christmas
I’m just a big fan of the old carols/Christmas hymns in general.

So that’s a little peek into our world a Christmas. It’s a beautiful, glorious time of the year!