Christmahanukwanzaakah Holiday Concert
One of the bloggers I found during the marvellously bloggy month of Novem(NaBloPoMo)ber is Neil over at Citizen of the Month. I more or less fell in love with his strange encounter with Santa Claus in the elevator in Kew Gardens (hey! Queens!) and since then, well… I’ve developed a little giggling blogcrush on him, which is marked, as all good crushes are, by my own blog getting pimples and forgetting all the punchlines. It’s like the blog equivalent of having toilet paper on your shoe. In any case, when he started to organize a Christmahanukwanzaakah Holiday Concert and said – hey join in! of course I said yes because you know, at such concerts (especially at rehearsals) people get drunk, dance around with Santa hats on and remember all the punch lines to all the jokes ever invented and some which have yet to be thought up. I imagined witty renditions of The Night Before Christmas or perhaps soulful duets with the ex-choirboy husband or maybe even some smoky, newly penned Christmas blues. But then I procrastinated, fell into the doldrums and now suddenly Christmas approacheth and so does the concert.
Luckily, I have children to bail me out when my own cleverness moves to Cleveland and gets a job parking cars and the elder child happily obliged when I asked him ten minutes ago if he knew any carols. “TONS!” he replied cheerfully. And started singing.
So Neil, this is the Stuntfamily’s contribution to the first annual Christmahanukwanzaakah Holiday Concert. Like many a mother, I’m not exactly starring as such, but hey, I grew that kid. And that counts for something. Happy any holiday you feel like, everyone. This has done great things for my holiday spirit.
Daniel sings Jingle Bells:
Daniel sings We Three Kings with added soft shoe routine:
Well, now, that just lifted MY holiday spirits, too! I love the “ding” at the end of Jingle Bells (soon to become tradition in my own rendition), and the joyful dance at the end of We Three Kings is such pure Daniel as you’ve described him that I will be grinning all day.
Daniel- I love your flare for Drama! Wonder who you got that from hmmmm?
Very cute. Your Daniel can hold a tune! (and he’s not a bad dancer either!)
Put tap shoes on that boy for accompaniment!
You can tell, even with the sound off (haven’t worked out the volume on my pc .. ) that Daniel is from fine, CULES stock. Box step, anyone? Happy Christmas all of you,
Katie d x
ps feel very bad that I have been reading your blog obsessively for months, recommended by Danbury of course, without making my presence known. Slightly peeping tom-esque… anyway, here i am, out of the closet!! HELLO!
That was adorable. My 6yo watched with me and loved Daniel’s “happy feet” at the end.
Happy Holidays!
I love Daniel’s song and dance routine a lot, but I am particularly taken with the gap between his teeth. Gosh that’s cute.