Why We Are Rotten Parents and Other Christmas Stories
I almost recorded this week’s podcast on my own. Then at the last minute, just as I was about to begin, Gemma-Rose appeared.
“I’ll talk with you about Christmas, Mum.”
This week in my Christmas edition podcast, we chat about:
A magical Santa Christmas
A magical Christmas without Santa
Advent and Christmas traditions
Why the Three Wise Men set out to find Jesus before He is even born
Why St Nicholas isn’t very reliable
Why we are rotten parents
Why midnight Mass isn’t at midnight
The worst Christmas job that I no longer have to do
Australian Christmas traditions
Australian carols and songs
Why Santa wears his singlet, shorts and thongs
What Orana means…
and lots of other things!
And we listen to some beautiful Christmas music sung by Imogen. (Thank you Imogen!)
I apologise for the quality of this podcast. I think we must have been sitting too near the microphone. In some places there is a bit of a background hum which I was unable to remove. Perhaps I need a better microphone.
There were also a couple of clumsy transitions between segments. And can you spot the recording glitch? Oh well, I’ll get better at podcasting with more practise!
Show Notes
Christmas movies and books we talked about
Muppet Christmas Carol
Arthur Christmas
Books by Tomie de Paola
Merry Christmas Strega Nona
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Little Women
Christmas carols and songs
Andy, Callum, Imogen and Charlotte sing The Carol of the Bells
Imogen Sings Praise to God in Heaven
Book
I hope Gemma-Rose doesn’t mind being turned into Santa. She won’t be getting my children’s book, The Angels of Abbey Creek for Christmas. We have lots of copies already! Did you know there’s an Advent and a Christmas story in my book?
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