There is magic in the world
If you dare to see it
There is happiness in the world
If you dare to feel it
There is hope in the world
If you dare to force it
There is love in the world
If you dare to wish it
There is faith in your heart
If you dare to test it
There is compassion in your heart
If you dare to risk it
There wisdom in your heart
If you dare to mind it
There is joy in the world
If you dare to celebrate it
Merry Christmas 🎄
Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).
Merry Christmas! The day is finally here! Although these songs have been arranged in no particular order, I did save one of my most fun and perhaps religiously relevant songs for this special and holy twelfth day.
Introducing – if you’re not already familiar – the spectacular Christmas with Boney M. with one of my all time favourites, Mary’s Boy Child.
Follow up this bop of a holiday jam with When a Child is Born and Feliz Navidad to keep the party going. I remember rocking out to Feliz Navidad with my elementary school choir at the late Colonel John Butler School (which became Virgil Old Colony Christian School – what a name!).
Find my Twelve Days of Christmas Songs Playlist here with the bonus New Year’s themed Diana Krall song.
Grace & Frankie wish you, your friends, and family the most wonderful Christmas, holiday season a Happy New Year!
Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.
Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.
Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).
It’s Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas to all my German friends celebrating tonight! For me, I’m dreaming of a White Christmas … that can happen overnight, right? Does snow even still come to the Niagara Region before January?
We started with Bing Crosby and as this twelve day countdown draws to a close, I am thinking we’ll bring him back. For the first twelve or so years of my life, there is no contest what my favourite Christmas cassette tape was: White Christmas by Bing (I’ll admit his name confused me a little. Still haven’t seen anything like it.)
I have such a lovely memory of celebrating with my mom and watching the movie together. Take me back to the the time of those gorgeous dresses and fur muffs! (Just kidding… sort of) There goes that wistful yearning again 😉
The lovely Grace & Frankie wanted a White Christmas inside the house, so they emptied one of my ornaments all over the floor. After cleaning up the best I can, I’m still finding styrofoam “snowflakes” all over the place!
Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.
Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.
Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).
On the tenth day of Christmas,
Was I so thirsty
My true love sent
Ten Lords a Leaping
just to dance with me?
😮
I’ll admit, this season has its bittersweet moments. There are moments of joy and hope followed by those of wistful yearning. Sarah McLachlan says it better than I do with her beautiful Song for a Winter’s Night.
Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.
Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.
Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).
On the ninth day of Christmas, I should reveal that I am a Michael Bublé fan… when it comes to Christmas music. How could I not be? I’m not a monster. And nothing is more delightful to my ears than Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).
I confess I also enjoy his rendition of Santa Baby.
Grace & Frankie with kitchen Christmas cuddles
Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.
Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.
Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).
I think it’s time to recommend The Home Alone Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, and my favourite version of Carol of the Bells.
I also love White Christmas by Irving Berlin & The Drifters and the choir version of O Holy Night. I enjoy watching Home Alone once every three to five years. So while I won’t be revisiting the movie this Christmas, I might be back round to it next year.
The faces of Frankie 🙂
Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.
Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.
Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).
Just as important to me and entertaining as Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer is Merry Christmas From the Family performed by Rosie O’Donnell and The Chicks (or, as I know them, The Dixie Chicks).
Unfortunately, this song won’t play on Spotify for me. Maybe it will for you! I’ve still included it in my Top Twelve Christmas Songs playlist which I’ll be releasing December 25.
I used to listen to Rosie O’Donnell’s Christmas CD for weeks leading up to Christmas. I had a great range of exposure in my childhood. 😉
Grace & Frankie having a pre-Christmas nap.
Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.
Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.
Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).
I love Elvis’ Christmas Album. It brings back lovely memories of enjoying the holidays with my mom. I love it all from Blue Christmas to I Believe. But I have a special fondness for Peace in the Valley which resounds the true feeling of the season even if it’s not the most Christmasy song on the album.
Frankie finds these Christmas tunes relaxing.
Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.
Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.
Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).
On the fifth day of Christmas, I recommend to thee,
Have A Holly Jolly Christmas with me!
I have great memories of busting out my Burl Ives Christmas cassette tape – a favourite in my holiday line up. I loved dancing to A Holly Jolly Christmas! The song Snow for Johnny was obviously a close runner up.
Time travel back with me! Enjoy this classic and, while you’re in the past, maybe catch one of my favourite Christmas films: Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
I think Grace & Frankie and me are going to curl up for a holiday movie night!
Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.
Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.
Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).
I feel like it’s time to be honest and admit that my real true favourite most enjoyed Christmas song is… Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.
I feel like this is a song even Scrooge can get behind. A reminder I love my grandmas, but I also love laughter, fun and not taking things so seriously.
This song is a a comedic sketch, humorous holiday storytelling. On a deeper level, perhaps it’s also a great reminder that we never know if today is our “last day” – after all, death is life’s only guarantee. With this somewhat Dharmic teaching, I’ll make my segue.
Bonus: 12 Days of Charity
Looking for a charitable organization to support this season?
Consider Samudra Buddhist Centre. I recommend signing up for beginner classes or click here to go to their donation collection platform. Through the practice of Buddhism, I have found an abundance of inner peace simply by learning and applying basic meditation techniques and contemplating virtuous objects (like love and compassion).
Studying over the last five years, I have cultivated faith through experimenting and observing. I am happy to share this wisdom with others and encourage them to sign up for general program classes to learn wonderful, practical and basic meditation techniques to enrich one’s life.
Here Grace and I are studying together:
Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.
Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.
The Halfwit Writer