Hello Japan, Phone Calls, Daily Routines, Christmas Playlist etc.

My little map thing on the side shows a Japan visitor. Helllllooooo Japan!

We just got off the phone with Todd...

Brynn: I love Daddy

Me: I love him too.

Brynn: Dad is SO a great guy.

I haven't posted in a while, I'm busy listening to the songs you suggested and sending Christmas cards, wrapping gifts, sweeping, mopping and vacuuming, attending concerts, church and parties (Christmas and birthday), changing diapers, loving Sophie's budding vocabulary, cooking & baking, reading books and catalogs, lifting weights, moving boxes, playing the piano, doing homework and signing things, fixing hair, playing with toys, changing sheets, singing Christmas carols, dancing, stair climbing, cleaning, laundry and dish doing, going out for lunch and enjoying this glorious weather. Also, I've been eating Macadamia Nut Caramel Clusters Popcorn from Target in a tall canister. Yum. It's got nuts all through it because they are hard to distinguish from the popcorn and I can't eat all the nuts out first. They also had a chocolate drizzle and a cranberry pecan variety.

A note about my Christmas cards: my master address list is in a box somewhere and I've switched computers 3 times since last year. If you have moved in the last five years or are a transient young married couple, please email me at aztwtaylor at yahoo dot com with your address. (Becky H., Gregory girls, Aunt Kathy etc.)

"This is Us" Readers' Choice Christmas Playlist:

Jim Brickman Peace and Homecoming

Celine Dion These Are Special Times

James Conlee (three free downloads available)"O Come All Ye Faithful"

Polar Express Soundtrack--Hot Chocolate, Polar Express, Believe

"I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day"

Clay Aiken "Mary Did You Know?"

George Winston December

"Twelve Days of Christmas" Doug and Bob McKenzie-Is this clean, Sam?

Jessica Simpson "Baby It's Cold Outside"

Mindy Smith

Michael Buble Let it Snow

Josh Groban Noel

Kurt Bestor

Martina McBride White Christmas

Bing, Ella, Rosemary Cloony

Mannheim Steamroll
Paul Cardall
John Schmidt
Harry Connick
James Taylor...
Peter Breinholt
"The First Noel"--Crash Test Dummies
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"--Bare Naked Ladies & Sarah McLaughlin
"Christmas Canon"--Trans Siberian Orchestra
Sarah McLaughlin
"O Holy Night" by Narada
Jingle Bells Shotgun Shells-is that a real song?