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| Tree with crocheted ornaments, all made by me except for the lovely snowflakes on the front which I received in a Snowflake Swap. Thanks, Samantha! |
Christmas time is here
Happiness and cheer
Fun for all that children call
Their favorite time of the year
Snowflakes in the air
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share
Sleigh bells in the air
Beauty everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And joyful memories there
Christmas time is here
We'll be drawing near
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year...
Happiness and cheer
Fun for all that children call
Their favorite time of the year
Snowflakes in the air
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share
Sleigh bells in the air
Beauty everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And joyful memories there
Christmas time is here
We'll be drawing near
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year...
And my Dad always calls me when he sees this is on TV. ("Quick, Kay, turn on your TV, Charlie Brown is on! HEE HEE") He loves Charlie Brown and so do I! I love all these characters created by Charles Schulz and I am thankful that even though he is no longer with us, we can still enjoy his humor and wisdom. You may click on the following to read more. A Charlie Brown Christmas
Hope all of you are having a wonderful Christmas-time.
"Oh, that we could always see such spirit through the year..."
Charlie Brown Christmas is the best!
ReplyDeleteYou might also enjoy Benny Grunch's song, "I Could See The Aluminum Tree Through the Picture Window." It reminisces about those trees, how much fun they were.
I totally agree!
DeleteI couldn't find that song by him but I did find, "I Can See Elvis In The Mildew On My Wall." He sounds like quite a character! :-)
Your tree is - to my "European"-trained eyes - very unusual and what I would think of as "typical American", but I like it :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd I love Charlie Brown, too!
I am glad you like my little tree. It just needed a little love. So happy you love Charlie Brown too, Peanuts must surely be loved all over the world!
DeleteI have "American" trained eyes, and I see beauty in the most unusual places! :-)
Someone typed this into a search engine and got to my blog..."You don't sound American"...that made me laugh, because I most certainly am! (But you already know that!)
Kay, My sister had one of those silver trees with the revolving lights. I asked her last week , if she wishes she had it back.:):) My daughters would watch Charlie Brown Christmas every year...now I watch it to think of my days with them. Thank you for the memories. Merry Christmas, xo,Susie
ReplyDeleteDear Susie,
DeleteSo glad that this brought back happy memories for you!
Our silver tree was blown away in a tornado along with most of our childhood things. (We were not there at the time, but it was sad to lose it along with some of the few toys that were kept from our childhood.)
Happy Christmas to you!!
My Aunt and Uncle lived across the street from us. Their home was always in perfect order...they had only big kids..we were a brood of six with a houseful of chaos (and fun!). They had a silver aluminum tree that turned and a wheel with many colors that gave the tree a different look..we had a live tree with typical ornaments and tons of tinsel. I wouldn't trade our real tree for theirs, but I sure enjoyed going over there and watching their tree change colors. Your tree brought back wonderful memories of an Aunt and Uncle no longer with us and Christmases that seemed so magical. I have loved Charlie Brown forever and the Christmas special is just that...special. (Oh, we now have a fake tree that tries to look real..but I like it anyway!)
ReplyDeleteHey Kathy!
DeleteIs that the same Aunt that you would sit on the porch with and eat watermelon and she would put salt on it and you didn't? HA, I just was reading your past posts yesterday morning and saw that!
The tree that they had sounds exactly like the one that we did. My little sister never knew it, born in 1966, we only had real trees after that.
I am SO HAPPY that this brought back good memories for you. And for our whole married lives together, we have always had a fake tree that tries to look real too!
Charles Schultz certainly had it right, didn't he? I loved him then, I love him now. I love your little tinsel tree. My hubby had one when he was a kid with the color panel light, too. xo Diana
ReplyDeleteOh yes, Diana, I LOVE Charles Schultz, to be able to say so much with his little cartoon characters.
DeleteDo you have the expression "Lit up like a Christmas tree"? If something is very colorful, I used to hear that a lot, I don't hear it much anymore.
Happy Christmas!
I remember the sort of aluminum tree you talk about. My aunt Hazel had one. It's good to see that they're coming back into fashion. My mother found all the old clip-on candle holders that belonged to her mother. We've been meaning to try to find a metal tree so that we could use them. I'd be afraid to put lighted candles on a real tree for fear of fire. But a metal one, with lighted candles, even for a few minutes might be nice. I'll have to see if I can find one.
ReplyDeleteHope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas! xoxox
I wonder why it is that I have begun seeing them again?
DeleteWhat has brought them back into style? Don't get me wrong, I love real trees and I like the fake ones that try to look real with pretty lights and decorations.
I would love to see a tree (even a metal one) with real candles on it, but since I have no idea how to do that, I would not even attempt it. You are braver than I am! :-)
Happy Christmas!
We had a silver aluminum tree in the 60s too -- glad they're coming back into style! My auntie had one with blue rayon balls and a blue garland on it. We all thought it was the height of sophistication, LOL!
ReplyDeleteDear Debra,
DeleteI love how the light and bright colors brings out the child in all of us. Would that we could keep that all through the year!
Blue rayon balls and a blue garland...sounds like my kind of house! :-)
Merry Christmas to you and your family, yes I remember the aluminum trees, we never had one, but we had a white flocked one one year. We have a real one dropping more needles daily.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you!
DeleteYou know that sister that I told you I always watched Charlie Brown with? She only knew real trees and that is what she must have at her home now. Her childhood was different from her older siblings!
Merry Christmas to you and your family too! xx
Dear Kay,
ReplyDeleteWhat a charming post! I have always loved the whole peanuts gang. I sometimes call one of my doggies, Snoopy! A Charlie Brown Christmas - it's been a while since I last watched this. Look forward to seeing that classic again.....am sure it will bring back lots of wonderful memories.
Happy Holidays!
Cheers from DC~
Loi
Hello!
DeleteI am so PLEASED to see your comment here! I saw your blog from ...I think it was from Ivan at A Normandy Kitchen, and your blog is BEAUTIFUL, really, really good. Thanks so much for becoming a follower of mine, you are now a friend for life with me! (BIG SMILE HERE)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Charlie Brown!
The HAPPIEST of holidays to you in D.C.
Oh, happy memories! We've always had real trees, but in the 60s a friend's family had the silver tree with revolving light, and I thought i was magic!
ReplyDeleteA good many of my friends had real trees and I loved them too, but I also loved our silver tree lit up by the colors. My dual nature started at an early age! xx
DeleteHappy Christmas to you!
Xmas trees are banned in this puritan house. Xmas pudding however is most important!
ReplyDeleteAh, Christmas pudding, with nice cream poured all over it...you are making me homesick for an English Christmas, and I only was there ONCE for Christmas! And you KNOW that I love the jokes inside Christmas crackers, don't you?
Delete(You need to do a post about Christmas pantomines, Americans have no idea what they are about.)
Happy XMAS to you!
We were just talking about Charlie Brown last night, because my husband was amazed that I'd never seen it! I will definitely rectify this ! We have a fake green tree because the real ones used to drop needles and the cat and dog tried to eat them.Hope you're having a lovely Christmas, Kay!
ReplyDeleteOH, PLEASE let me know after you have watched it. I truly hope you will love it too.
DeleteWe have always had a fake green one too, but finally, we had to get rid of it last year...nothing lasts forever! A lovely Christmas to you and a happy new year ahead!
Thanks for sharing Xmas Time is Here. Had never seen before. Have a wonderful Xmas. Thanks for following our blog...it has been much appreciated by Lea and I.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing, I didn't know those last few words to the song until I heard my son sing them at the department store last week, it truly brought tears to my eyes.
DeleteThank YOU, Paul & Lea for following my blog and my rambling thoughts, I appreciate YOU!
We had a silver tree growing up and how we hated it! The ironic thing was that my father was a lumberjack...!!! I guess it's the old story of the painter's house that needs painting and the mechanic's car not working. I just love your crocheted ornaments :) And what would Christmas be without good old Charlie Brown!
ReplyDeleteHA! A lumberjack with a fake tree, that's funny! Speaking of funny, I hope he liked "The Lumberjack Song" from Monty Python. There was a funny ad on TV about that show, it showed a snippit from the show and then a voice said, "If your girlfriend laughs at this, MARRY HER." Isn't that funny?
DeleteThanks for liking my little hand-tortured, I mean handmade crochet ornaments!!
Kay! LOVE your blog!!!! And I, too, love A Charlie Brown Christmas. It really is brilliant and stands the test of time. That song always fills me up with joy! There are still 1950's aluminum trees in antique stores. I had one for a while in the 90's but mine was very small and I ended up giving it away when I moved. I still see them sometimes, especially in gay homes & shops! Merry Christmas!! Dave in DC
ReplyDeleteOh David! So happy to see your comment here! Of course, you would LOVE Charlie Brown too! You might know they would be in gay homes, after all, it is time to don our gay apparel!! :-)
DeleteMerry Christmas to you! (Go back in this blog and see C. singing at Belk, you might not recognize the little varmint!!)
Hello Kay,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the Charlie Brown link (and smile!). When buying a Christmas tree each year it has to pass the Charlie Brown test - if it is looking a bit 'twiggy' it is too 'Charlie brown'!
Wishing you, your husband and son a very warm and happy Christmas!
Best Wishes Ivan
Hello Ivan!
DeleteHope you have a very warm and happy Christmas too!
And I KNOW you will enjoy good food with it! :-)
I love Charlie Brown too. Who wouldn't or couldn't?
ReplyDeleteThere is a cartoon strip of Charlie Brown in my daily paper - always head straight there when I need a smile.
Have a wonderful Christmas and I hope the New Year brings lots of good things for you and yours. Thank you for the card and an email will be winging its way to you shortly. x
Hey Pat!
DeleteCharlie Brown is such a wonderful character, and all his friends with him, and it makes me happy that they are known and loved throughout the world!
I'm glad you got my card but the one that you sent me is so beautiful and special!! Thank you again!
Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to you!xx
Hi Kay
ReplyDeleteYou have mentioned Advent music. My Advent begins with the strains of Joan Baez singing O come, O come Emmanuel on her 1966 Noel album. Sometimes I cheat and play it on the earliest date that Advent Sunday could be rather than when it falls that particular year. Childlike impatience.
We have a fibre optic tree plus a real one in a pot which lives in the garden throughout the year and which I lug in circa Advent Sunday.
I am catching up on old posts so do give Christopher our congratulations for his Christmas singing.
I am, indeed, lucky to be able to get to such places and concerts with relative ease. Are you likely to be seeing The Albert in the near future?
KInd Regards
Henry
Hello Henry!
DeleteThanks for your comment here! I love to hear Joan Baez sing also, do you know the song, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"? Richard says it was a hit in England too.
And I will tell C. that you liked his singing. It wasn't easy for him in that kind of setting, but I thought he did a good job of it.
I hope to get to the Royal Albert Hall, just not sure when that will be.
Hope y'all have a wonderful Christmas! Love, KAY
Ooh ooh ooh, I LOVE that tree! And I am a Snoopy fanatic ~ I feel so sentimental as to feel weepy when Charlie Brown's Christmas comes on. I'm not surprised to hear you love it too!!!
ReplyDeleteHey Audrey!
DeleteI am crazy about the characters from Peanuts so I should not be surprised that you love Snoopy too!
Are you sure you are not my daughter? :-)
Your aluminum tree is gorgeous! I love shiny things. Then I wouldn't have to worry about tinsel. We have an artificial tree that is easy to put together. I guess that's what I like best about it. Merry Christmas!!!
ReplyDeleteI love shiny things too! I like easy to put together also, dear Kay! We have more in common than just our names! xx
DeleteAn artificial tree is also cost effective as it does not need to be watered and once bought it does not need to be transferred from place to place as with a real tree. Artificial trees can be kept up as long as possible for those who are attached to the holidays but real ones rot and may have to be taken down immediately after the holiday season. Check Artificial Christmas Trees website for more details.
ReplyDeleteI love real trees too but I really love them in the ground!
DeleteI can't resist these aluminum Christmas trees. They take me back decades to when my grandmother used to have one on her living room coffee table.
ReplyDeleteHello Josie!
DeleteThanks for your comment and thank you for visiting my blog, I appreciate it.
I have very fond memories of these aluminum Christmas trees and I am glad that they hold happy memories for you!