Well, with Christmas just days away, we're in the final stretch.

Maybe you're already welcoming guests at this point or getting packed to do some traveling.

Maybe you're doing some final shopping and cooking, taking in a few last festive events or binging Christmas movies or Christmas cookies.

In these final days leading up to Christmas, there's a collective

feeling of anticipation, expectation, preparation, of making the most of the time that remains.

Something big is coming, and then that something is going away. But here on Christmas Eve, Eve, Eve, Eve, or Solstice Eve, if you like, there's a Christmas Eve, Eve, Eve, Eve, Eve, Eve, or Solstice Eve,

if you like, we're right where we want to be, fully in the Christmas season and the Christmas

spirit, ready to make some new memories and reminisce about old ones. So how about you pull up a chair

by the fire with me and some members of the

Christmas Past family, as we take a little tour through other people's Christmas pasts?

Yes, it's time once again for an episode dedicated just to you and your Christmas memories.

We all look forward to hearing the Christmas music that provided the soundtrack to many a Christmas

memory, so let's start there. For me, it's this old album of music box style Christmas songs I've

had since childhood, and this other album by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Both of those trigger a cascade

of memories and images for me. We all have our favorites, and Danielle in Ontario is no different. Hi, Brian. I wanted to

share with you one of my favorite Christmas songs of all time. I love the song, It's Christmas by the Rovers.

I have a vivid memory of this song playing in the background while my mom and I would decorate the

Christmas tree when I was little. I love its belting melody and happy

message. My mom passed away a year and a half ago, and this song reminds me of her every time I

hear it. If you haven't heard it before, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Have a Merry Christmas.

I'll have to admit that song is a new one to me this year. Maybe it will be for you too. I've put a

link to it in the show

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