Let it Snow!

I've held out so far...even though holiday music has been playing in stores and on the radio for weeks. Listening to rehearsal recordings to get memorized for our upcoming Solstice concert has helped too, as well as the fact that it's been sunny and in the 60's! However, we woke up to beautiful, fluffy snow this morning, and I am acknowledging my decision to jump the gun and get into the Holiday Spirit before Thanksgiving this year.

It wasn't a conscious decision in the moment, but flipping through my stations on the way to work I stumbled across Bing Crosby's voice encouraging an audience to sing along with him "as loud or as pretty as you know how." Something inside me burst, my heart skipped a beat, and I couldn't help but crank the volume. Maybe it's the snow, maybe it's the fact that I just realized we miss a whole weekend of the season with Thanksgiving falling so late this year, or maybe it's the fact that I've been designing holiday greetings at work all week. Either way, the warm flood of joy that surged through me in the car this morning is the reason I spend so many months anticipating this season. (And, admittedly, the reason we have a separate storage box for all of my Holiday music.)

I'm not ready for Nat's Christmas Song or Barbara's Ave Maria, but the frosty view out my window all day has confirmed that I am in the mood for some jingly tunes to put me in a jolly mood.