My favorite Christmas album, especially while decking the halls, is Clare College’s “The Holly and the Ivy,” but really it’s the cassette recording (!) of the children’s choir my little sister was in at our church, singing many of the selections from that album. One piece on the tape is by the church handbell choir, and there’s a spot where someone misses their note in a very obvious way. Every year, the whole family freezes in whatever house-decorating position they’re in, for the space of that missed note, then continues decorating.
My favorite Christmas album, especially while decking the halls, is Clare College’s “The Holly and the Ivy,” but really it’s the cassette recording (!) of the children’s choir my little sister was in at our church, singing many of the selections from that album. One piece on the tape is by the church handbell choir, and there’s a spot where someone misses their note in a very obvious way. Every year, the whole family freezes in whatever house-decorating position they’re in, for the space of that missed note, then continues decorating.
I love that story. I can picture that pause in the decorating. Ha!