Listening to Holiday Stories
Well, we’re getting close to releasing our new and improved Holiday Stories Collection next week, and thought we’d share some of the comments we’ve received from folks who have been listening to these programs from our earilier collections. Here’s the first…
We have all three of your holiday CD’s, and we love them! In November, we listen to Thanksgiving stories all month. I wish there were more Thanksgiving shows! If you did an entire Thanksgiving CD I’d be the first person to order one! (Note: While we don’t have a complete CD of just Thanksgiving stories, we do have a dozen excellent ones in our collection. — JE)
We listen while we make Thanksgiving crafts, while we do art, while the children are building with blocks, spool knitting or sewing, etc. We listen while we eat lunch too; we don’t want to miss out on hearing a single great Thanksgiving show!
The day after Thanksgiving, we listen to Christmas stories while we put up the Christmas tree and decorate it. And we listen every day in December, just like in November. We have a Playmobile nativity set, and my daughter loves to play with it and act out the story of Jesus’ birth, while listening to the shows about it.
And of course, who can forget The Cinnamon Bear! (A classic series of 26 15-minute children’s programs, meant to be listened to from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas eve — JE) We listen to an episode each night before bed. We have done this every year since we got the CD. We love it so much we have never ever gotten to Jonathan Thomas and his Christmas on the Moon. Each year, it’s a hard choice, but the children both end up voting for The Cinnamon Bear. This year, we are all determined to listen to both of them! We don’t know if we’re going to hear one episode a night of each, or if we’re going to hear two episodes a night of one, then when it’s finished do the same with the other. Or maybe we’ll listen to one show during the day, and one at night. Whatever we end up doing, we’ve decided that this year we will hear both shows!
My son (9) uses the holiday CD’s all year! He loves Burns and Allen, and when he has some free time, he often gets a holiday CD and listens to all the Burns and Allen shows. I think he may have them all memorized.
I must confess that sometimes I listen without the children. I like to listen while I’m working in the kitchen, wrapping gifts, or just sitting still with a cup of tea. I especially love listening while I am sewing. I usually end up with company before I’m through; once they discover that I am listening it doesn’t take long before they join me.
To tell you the truth, I don’t think that any of us can imagine the holidays without these CD’s. They have become an integral part of our family holiday observances just as surely as turkey and pumpkin pie. The question is, who is going to be the first one to grab a holiday CD on November 1st? And the next question is, can we wait that long? I think these collections are just wonderful. Not only do they help us remember the true spirit of the holidays, then take us back to a time when America was a nation that worshiped God, and when families were the cornerstone of our society. And, I think they inspire us to keep that spirit alive in our own families. Thank you for offering these great holiday collections.
Blessings on you,
Kelly
Thanks for the peek into your family’s holidays, Kelly! We hope lots more folks start some listening traditions too this year. - JE
