I love, love, love the holidays. I’m the one that you’ll find busting out the Christmas music before Thanksgiving has even hit.  I’m not taking anything away from Thanksgiving, I love it and it’s great. BUT… Christmas needs more time!

The lights, ooooo the fabulous lights! On Black Friday night Brad and I are already going through different neighborhoods that we know are the big “Christmas decoration” neighborhoods and scoping out all of the festiveness.  With our hot chocolate in hand and the Christmas music blaring we just love it! I love that I have a husband that loves it as much as I do, and doesn’t care if I want to decorate for Christmas on November 1 — which we didn’t. Every year I used to decorate earlier and earlier… in 201- the date to beat was November 13.  Unfortunately I didn’t beat my record this year as I thought I was hosting Thanksgiving at my house this year and thought some people would be peeved by my over Christmas decorating and already having the fall decor put back into the garage. But on Black Friday I pulled out the tree, hung up my wreath, and decorated the mantle!

Can we discuss some of the cheesiness that is holiday music?  No doubt there are the classics that everyone loves, and there are the ones that make me cryyyyy like a baby in my car – - mostly these two:

First there is that damn Josh Groban, who sang not only his version of I’ll Be Home for Christmas but he felt like he needed to make me bawl my eyes out by adding in sweet heartfelt messages from families of soldiers. You can always get me with the patriotic card.

That one doesn’t include it totally but you definitely get the idea with all of the photos and military people in the audience. Then of course we have sweet, sweet song — “The Christmas Shoes”. Now if that song can’t pull at your heart strings then I dunno. I literally try (like I did right now) to listen and see how long I can force myself not to cry. I think I got to the second line before my nose started burning and tears started forming.

Now wipe the tears off of your keyboard, I won’t talk about anything sad anymore. Now there are what I find to be the worst Christmas songs. Sorry Kenny Loggin fans, I can’t stand this first one.

Brad and I like to call it, “Celebrate Meatloaf”. That’s what we swear it sounds like he’s saying. I know there are a lot of people who like that song though so I might lose a few of you on that one. But this next one you HAVE to agree. It’s the definition of a cheesy 80s song and I don’t remember ever hearing it until this year which is weird since I listen to a lot of Christmas music. But anyways, on Black Friday we heard this song and by the second line we were like “huh?” and turned it up — laughing ensued and I had to come home and see who sang it, confirm that it had to be an 80s hit, and laugh again.

 

Good ‘ol Christmas cheesiness at it’s finest. So what are some of your favorite things about the holidays… and those things that just drive you crazy? Any favorite songs or ones you can’t stand? On that note, yes I love “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”.