As new as I am to this whole genealogy blogging world – at just about a month – I thought I would take part in Footnote Maven ‘s annual tradition of Blog Caroling.
Since the challenge went out for us to blog our favourite carols, I have been considering what mine might be. I have some favourites among the old standards – Good King Wenceslas, We Three Kings, Do You Hear What I Hear, O Holy Night – and there are some more recent ones I quite like such as Rita MacNeil’s Now the Bells Ring and Alfie Zappacosta’s This Christmas Eve. But then I thought of one that seems even more meaningful to me now that I have children than it did when I first heard it nearly twenty years ago.
John McDermott’s Old Tin Star tells of the passing of traditions – and of an old tin star at the top of the Christmas tree - down the generations. It seemed particularly apt this week as my preschooler was helping me to ‘decorate’ the tree while the baby alternately tried to eat it and climb it.
Merry Christmas!
One of the girl’s I work with was telling me that when she put up their tree last week, her twin boys (who are just 1 this Christmas) kept trying to “play ball” with the bulbs. And then they thought that, once the tree was done, they could take it all down! Little ones are fun, aren’t they?! 😉