Name a song that triggers emotions from the past and describe those emotions.
The whole Alabama Christmas CD - memories of decorating the tree every year with my family. December 1 was always the night - my dad would bring home the real Christmas tree bought from the Scouts, and we all helped haul out all of the Christmas decorations in boxes from under the stairs. We each had a shoebox with our special ornaments. As we got older, we ended up with two. Every year on Christmas Eve my mom would give us an ornament, and with all of the school crafts we amassed quite a collection.
The tree was hauled into the house and my dad would have his saw to make sure it was short enough to fit. I remember helping to hold the tree up while my mom gave us directions to make sure it was straight, and my dad would anchor it into the tree stand. I can almost smell the tree right now. My mom loved the smell of a real tree. We would have Alabama Christmas playing as we all placed our ornaments on the tree. After my mom hung the lights, of course. She wanted to make sure they were all evenly spread out and that was always her job.
Along with decorating the tree, we would put up the ceramic Nativity on top of the piano, on blue silk. And the advent calendar with the little mouse that moved over a pocket each day, and the special candle my mom would have ready with dots on it we so we knew how much to let it burn every night as we read a Christmas story and moved the mouse.
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Fun! Other than the Carpenters bringing back a slew of Christmas memories from growing up, the Celine Dion Christmas album brings back fun memories of my freshman and sophomore years at BYU, decorating our apartment (the first year we got a real tree and tied it on the top of my roommate's car to bring it home--we tied it through the windows, which meant the 6 of us in her 5 person car had to climb in and out of the windows--and the RA pretended not to notice since it wasn't allowed at Heritage Halls apparently) and dancing and singing and staying up way too late. Fun times. :)
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