The Ghost of Christmas Past

I know, I know...it's been forever since I blogged. I started writing a few things the other day, a few days before Christmas, but never actually posted them. Since I don't have much else to say right now, here are a few random stories of Christmas past.

*One Christmas, during high school, our choir students put on a Christmas show in which different students sang solos. These were Christmas songs which they chose for themselves. I went because my very best friend Michelle was of course singing a solo. Michelle sang "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree" if I remember correctly. Another girl, who had a significant lisp, sang Amy Grant's "Tennessee Christmas". If you have ever heard that song, or even just know the chorus, you can imagine how funny it would be with a lisp. This is still a joke between Michelle and I (and her mom). It's still funny 12 or 14 years later. If you had been there, it would be funny to you too. Trust me.

*One of my favorite pictures at my grandma's house is a picture of my cousins, my brother and I one Christmas. I think it was probably 1993 or 1994. We had gone to Missouri to visit for Christmas. The picture was taken after we had opened some gifts, and told some jokes or something. In any case, it is obvious in the picture that we were all laughing and enjoying being together. It's one of those happy/sad pictures. Know what I mean? Looking at it makes you happy because it is a happy picture, but it also makes you sad because someone in it is gone and/or changed. I still I love the picture even though it's happy/sad.

Maybe in my next post I'll tell you the story of the headless Cabbage Patch Kid, which is also a Christmas story, believe it or not.