Thursday, December 16, 2010

Caroling

Tonight a personal dream of mine came true. Our family went caroling.

Growing up my family went caroling (to about 543 houses) every year. It was so fun and a great memory from my childhood. I still love singing with my family whenever we can.

The boys haven't been great at learning words to songs. At least songs I try to teach them, so not a lot of group singing going on here yet. Now that they are older they're singing more though and Hannah loves anything that involves her vocal chords.

Sooo, we took a plate of goodies to one of Taylor's HT families and Taylor asked if we wanted to sing! The boys were actually really excited because they both have been learning the words to Away In A Manger. So we practiced in the car with the kids singing random lines all the way over.

Then the moment arrived. The Horns answered their door and we sang. James and Matthias knew all the words and Hannah knows most of them, but instead she stood inside the doorway and watched us sing. It was lovely. I almost cried. Seriously.

This is the beginning of something great.

3 comments:

Mindy said...

So fun! Glad your family made their debut in the caroling world! I bet they did great!!

Anonymous said...

I like this a lot. The most caroling I've ever done was in Heritage Halls calling friends and singing... well done for doing it for real, Harvey's, well done.

rebecca and eric said...

yay!! Caroling is the BEST part of Christmas for me. So thie year was wonderful for me too since Whitney learned a couple of songs and Kate is a pro. we even got Eric to go to 3 houses with us. :) So glad you got to go.