a bushel and a peck. volume 2: It's the Holiday Season

I had this song in my head all of December...

Happy Holiday

While the merry bells keep ringing

May your every wish come true

Happy Holiday

May the calendar keep bringing

Happy Holidays to you

It's the holiday season

And Santa Claus is coming back

The Christmas snow is white on the ground

When old Santa gets into town

He'll be coming down the chimney, down

Coming down the chimney, down

It's the holiday season

And Santa Claus has got a toy

For every good girl and good little boy

He's a great big bundle of joy

He'll be coming down the chimney, down

Coming down the chimney, down

He'll have a big fat pack upon his back

And lots of goodies for you and me

So leave a peppermint stick for old St. Nick

Hanging on the Christmas tree

I love this song.
It was written by Irvin Berlin and first performed by Bing Crosby in 1942.
For some reason, that era of our culture evokes the Christmas season to me.
I love vintage photographs of children sledding in the snow.
Various scenes from A Christmas Story play through my head.
And, I dream of a time when you tied your tree to the top of your wood-paneled station wagon in the snow from a local farmer rather than Lowe's into the trunk of a 4-door sedan...
when downtown shop windows were full of the season,
and quite possibly Christmas actually started in December and not June....

However, I still love Christmas. I just want more of the 40's in my home and a little less of the now during this time of year. I played vintage Christmas music nearly all of the time if we were home, we always had a fire roaring, I baked more than I had in a long time, and we just enjoyed our cozy home, our fun little family, and our larger crazy families...just kidding guys- kind of:)