Getting in the Holiday Spirit

**Karen** · 11-27-2010, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by mrspunkysmom

I'm a formally trained musician, so usually the music gets me in the spirit for Christmas. I feel bereft when it stops on Dec. 26th.

I'll tell you a not-so-secret - the Charlie Brown Christmas CD and the Muppet Christmas Carol CD are in my car all year round - we have a 6-CD changer, so they are always ready at the touch of a button!

**Freedom** · 11-28-2010, 08:00 AM

The music stops on the radio on the 26th; but I keep my Christmas CDs loaded and play them straight through to Epiphany. I barely turn the radio on at all during the "Twelve Days of Christmas."

Commercialism has it all backwards. The Christmas season STARTS on Dec 25th!

**Laura's Babies** · 11-28-2010, 08:20 AM

Hummmm, that's a tough question for me. I don't think I ever get in the spirit anymore, not since the kids grew up.. I LOVE it on the boat the years we work and I reckon all the candy I made was what did it for me... making tons of home made candy when everybody else bought candy, making sure each guy has a gift under the tree, just acting like a Mom.

**cyber-sibes** · 11-28-2010, 08:48 AM

Thanksgiving wouldn't be the same without the Wizard of Oz (its on this weekend), it was one of my mom's favorite movies, so watching it is always a nostalgic feel-good start to the season. The lights are going up on houses here too, and its so lovely to drive around & look down a street and see those cheery displays. Of course, the music - I love singing along with Christmas carols. I try to buy 1 new Christmas CD every year, so I have both oldies and some newer music.

**Bonny** · 11-28-2010, 09:46 AM

Love all the Christmas music. The day after Thanksgiving the last 5 years I have put up 6 strands of lights on a blue spruce tree outside for our grandson. This year hubby helped me which was good. We used a ladder & long pvc pole to string the lights up. Last night we baby sat & turned the lights on & the first question was from our grandson how to you get all those lights in there. Everything is HOW? WHY? I told him we screw each one in by hand. He was amazed.

**mrspunkysmom** · 11-28-2010, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by Freedom

The music stops on the radio on the 26th; but I keep my Christmas CDs loaded and play them straight through to Epiphany. I barely turn the radio on at all during the "Twelve Days of Christmas."

Commercialism has it all backwards. The Christmas season STARTS on Dec 25th!

Yeah, as a child attending Mass I noticed we never sang Christmas music until Christmas Eve. It lasted for a few weeks then it was back to regular music. At least in the Episcopalian Church the Season of Epiphany lasts until Lent.

And My mom never put the tree up before the 22nd.

PS I have cousins in Rhode Island, Middletown I believe.

**cyber-sibes** · 11-28-2010, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by mrspunkysmom

PS I have cousins in Rhode Island, Middletown I believe.

Small world! That's where we live!

**cassiesmom** · 11-28-2010, 09:43 PM

I'm with Freedom... after Christmas I still want to listen to holiday music!

I've seen a LOT of Christmas trees in front room windows the past couple of days.

**RICHARD** · 11-29-2010, 01:37 PM

LOL,

What get's me in the mood is probably the worst for us here is So Cal.....

The smell of fireplaces.

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AQMD be damned!

http://www.aqmd.gov/Default.htm

There was an effort afoot to ban all wood burning fireplaces in the next few years by the board......

**Karen** · 11-29-2010, 02:18 PM

Can people not install some sort of scrubber/filter that'll remove the fine particulate matter, and still burn the wood for heating purposes? Surely that'd be a money-making scheme for someone - big powerplants have scrubbers on their stacks ...