Sunday, December 5, 2010

Making Our Own Christmas Songbook

Okay, so it’s really nothing that special, but I thought you might appreciate this idea if you’re as song ignorant as I am.  How it is possible to be 33 years old and have heard every single one of these songs for this long and NOT know the words to them is beyond me.  But, alas, that is me.  And if it happens to be you too then you might appreciate this.
A couple of years I came up with this idea and made this for us.  Our Christmas Song Book cheat sheet, if you will.
I went searching for Christmas songs.  Fun ones and religious ones, everything I could find.  I did a lyrics search.  I cut and pasted (with the copyrights info still intact and with each song) several songs onto each page in a word document.  Over and over until you have all the songs you want.  I then made a Table of Contents.  Printed, 3 hole punched, and stuck it in a folder.  The year we did this we didn’t even have a 3 prong folder so we used a manila folder with brads.
Now when you’re in the car and wanting to sing Christmas Carols you have an instant go-to.  And you feel a little less like a fool in front of your kids.  You know, if you’re me.

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