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My cyber friend Leslie inspired me to post pics of my plushie holiday friends, who this year are gracing the top of the piano.
She has a Rodney Reindeer too! (the guy draped over the pitcher and bowl).

I have mostly moosie reindeer, a few bears and one little owl.
(I tried to do a fancy panoramic thing, but I was anxious to get out and do errands before the rains come again, so I just snapped these in a hurry. You'll have to piece them together in your wonderful imaginations.)


My Mom found me that little guy on the end this year, one day when we were at the grocery store. She had wandered off somewhere, then reappeared with a bag and said "Here, I couldn't resist!"



My little horsie is an ornament from Pier 1 Imports, a "Christmas in July" sale find.


Half of my Christmas sheet music is still at my Mom's house, in that piano bench, the one I grew up with. She has all the "easy" music I had when I was a kid: the pages with really big notes, spaced way far apart, and hardly any bass at all. Although I think she also has the way advanced difficult Nutcracker Suite duets that my friend Alicia and I valiantly tried to play together. We did pretty well on "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies", until we'd start laughing and you know how if you laugh, you can't play, especially something hard.

"Faaaaaaaaaaalllllll on your kneeeeeeeeeeeeesssssss" is my favorite, but "Carol of the Bells" is a close tie I think (that's the one that drives people insane ~ figures I would love it best). Its very difficult to play on the piano though, or I've just never found a good arrangement of it. The melancholy ones like "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "The Christmas Song" (the chestnuts roasting on an open fire one) are good, but get me all weepy, and I have to switch to "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" all in full octaves and LOUD to snap out of it. The poor cats.