I have 4 kids, I give credit to Ray Conniff!

I was listening to Christmas music today and a song came on that took me skipping down memory lane…

as I was lost in memories of Christmases past, something triggered in my brain and I remembered…this is why I stinkin have 4 kids!!!

But first, there were 2 Christmas albums, (yes albums, I’m very old) that were background music to our lives in November and December when I was growing up.

~This was one~

~The other was this one~

It was on this Ray Conniff album that I first heard the song that I’m pretty sure determined how many children I’d have later on. It’s the melody, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas. But don’t let the name fool ya, somewhere in that melody was the song: Count your Blessings…here’s the words I heard…

 I think about a nursery and I picture curly heads
 And one by one I count them as they slumber in their beds
 If you're worried and you can't sleep
 Just count your blessings instead of sheep
 And you'll fall asleep counting your blessings

~I listened to that over and over again. I thought it sounded 

heavenly to have a nursery full of curly heads... 

I pictured something like this~

So, that's when the seed was planted. I had 4 little blessings.
Be careful what Christmas songs you play for your kids!

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