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Holiday Muzak

Christmas Carol Craziness

By Teri Brown

(Just to let you know, I'm not sure what the words to this song are. This is what my kids deciphered after I tried for twenty years to figure out what the Whos from Whoville were singing to make the Grinch's heart grow three sizes that day. If anyone out there knows the answer to this age-old mystery, please let me know.)

I still haven't figured out how to clean after setting up two dozen Santas in my house. How does one go about dusting five-foot neon bells anyway? Or how do you mop around the Christmas tree and the 300 hundred piece Christmas village with the real working choo choo train? Or clean the refrigerator that is chilling 16 different kinds of pinwheel cookies? And the most puzzling question of all.... Does anyone really like pin wheel cookies?

From the first jingling bell to the last fa la la la la, I'm a lunatic. Is it any wonder that December 26th will find me yanking down the tree and throwing twinkle lights in boxes with great sighs of relief? Not even a pine needle left to tell that we ever celebrated Christmas. My family's just lucky that Easter doesn't have any songs!