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Five Ways to Find the True Spirit of Christmas in Your Laundry Room 25

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

Five Ways to Find the True Spirit of Christmas in Your Laundry Room

The holidays are here. Time for family and friends: creating new traditions, making memories, unwrapping gifts and discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. Sounds wonderful, right?  Yet sometimes the Christmas spirit, and all its joy and wonderment, is so hard to truly experience. For many, the holidays are likened to a bad game of musical chairs, once the Christmas music stops, you better be in the right place at the right time with the perfect gift in hand.

Seeing past the endless errands and a dwindling bank account isn’t easy, but finding the spirit of Christmas can be as easy as walking into to your laundry room. Yes, believe it or not, in those ordinary piles of colors and whites, CHRISTMAS lives. Here are 5 simple ways you can find the true spirit of Christmas for yourself:

1. Walk over to the pile of unmatched socks that have been collecting dust, for a while now, on your laundry room floor. Those “misfit” socks might never find their match, but there’s a great way to give them meaning and purpose. Dump them out on your kitchen table and begin decorating them with buttons, felt, pipe cleaners and ribbon.  Stuff them with warm Christmas wishes, recipes, candy canes, jingle bells and anything else you’d like. Tie them closed with a ribbon, and then surprise your neighbors when you tie them to their doorknobs with a fun holiday note or spread your unique stuffed misift socks to someone in need of a smile this holiday season. Those misfit socks are magic and are sure to make anyone smile.

2. When was the last time you wore that plaid shirt or those pants that are now rising up above your ankles?  What about those PJ’s you only wore once because you decided suddenly you didn’t like fleece?  Bet there’s a local family shelter or an organization in your community that would love those gently used clothes. Pack them in a box,

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Piano Lesson: Learn To Play Jingle Bells Without Piano Sheet Music 2

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

In this piano lesson we will learn to play piano Christmas music. We will use piano tab notation so you don’t need to read piano sheet music.

Jingle Bells is one of the most popular secular Christmas songs in the world. The most played part of the song is the refrain which we will concentrate on in this piano lesson.

Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh

In this piano lesson you will learn to play Jingle Bells without the use of piano sheet music. After this learn to play piano tutorial you will be able to play the melody with both hands!

Instead of piano sheet music we will use piano tab notation which will tell you where to place your fingers as you play the melody.

The first thing we will do is to locate the note C.

You will find the note C on many places on the piano. It is the white key to the left of two black keys.

Now it’s time to locate the middle C. It is the C right in the middle of the keyboard. On an ordinary upright piano it is near the keyhole.

In our piano lesson we will number the keys. The middle C in our piano tab notation is called 1.

What does 1 mean?

When you see the number 1 you are to press down the middle C once. The white key to the right of C is called 2, the next 3 and so on.

Let’s play some piano tab notes:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Now you have played a C-major scale with the actual notes C D E F G A B.

Let’s proceed in our piano lesson and play the first notes of Jingle Bells!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

3 3 3 3 3 3

This is the first part of the refrain. Easy?

I guess that you hear that the third and sixt note has to be a bit longer to create the melody Jingle Bells.

So far we have only used the right hand for playing the melody. How can you use your left hand?

Let’s make this piece a little bit more difficult and also more rewarding to

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Santa Claus Songs for Kids Take to a Whole New World 0

Posted on December 06, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

How can anyone forget the easy and catchy tune of “Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh”? Everyone remembers the Christmas songs that used to fill the childhood memories of fun a frolic. If we associate Christmas with three prominent things, even as adults, gifts, songs and obviously Santa Claus score the top positions.

Without Santa we can not imagine Christmas and so are the songs written and sung for him. Be it “Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose” or “Santa Claus is coming to town”, kids love to sing as they decorate the Christmas tree and hang socks near the bed or leave cookies and milk on the fireplace.

Santa Claus songs for kids are much in demand during the festive Christmas season as kids sing to welcome Santa who would be bringing their favorite gifts for them. Even though Santa Claus tradition is controversial, the popular belief that he would visit kids through out the world on the Christmas eve is still going strong.

Santa Claus’ World of Elves and Reindeers

Though elves or gnomes do not live in real, we believe that Santa Claus lives in his house in north pole with his wife, numerous elves and some reindeers. North pole is always covered with snow, the reason why Santa comes riding in a sleigh and wears his trademark red cloak with white collar and cuffs. He has a black leather belt and boots.

The facts about St. Nicholas has nothing to do with the popular belief of the imaginary life of Santa that kids believe in. Like fairy tales, they believe in the imaginary world where Santa lives is day to day life collecting information about kids around the world making a list of kids who have been naughty or nice throughout the year.

As kids imagine Santa and his toy making workshop, they weave their own stories around Santa. They write letters and leave notes for Santa

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