{"id":6408,"date":"2023-11-03T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2023-11-03T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T20:20:07","slug":"our-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/2023\/11\/03\/our-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My family is fortunate enough to live just minutes from an incredible Christmas tree farm. Every year, we drive to the quaint, family-owned agro-tourism destination to pick out, and chop down, our favorite bushy evergreen. Afterwards, we love grabbing some hot cocoa and popcorn in the festive-themed barn before taking our tree home to decorate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the evening, memories of Christmases past flood my brain as we hang each special ornament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My daughter, a 9-year-old musician, loves to serenade us with the strains of Christmas music emanating from her piano. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Most of you know that I come from a long line of musical predecessors. My mother is a violinist\/vocalist, her mother was a pianist\/organist, and even my great-great grandfather Panter McIlvain was a fiddle player. A couple of years ago when my grandmother passed away, I inherited my ancestor’s turn-of-the century French violin (pictured here).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, what you may not realize is that my children get their musical genes from both sides of the family, mine and my husband\u2019s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although he himself is not a musician, his mother, Shirley Rescot, is a talented pianist and former church organist. I have been thrilled to collaborate with her over the years, and you can enjoy her festive accompaniments on a couple of the jazzy songs, including \u201cIt\u2019s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas\u201d and \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cO Christmas Tree,\u201d although short, is particularly special because it features the 3-generation Rescot family, with an introduction by my daughter on piano and singing \u201cO Tannenbaum\u201d in German, followed by a duet by Shirley and me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d be thrilled if you listened to these songs as you decorate your own Christmas tree this season!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Song details and history:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

O Christmas Tree<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My family is fortunate enough to live just minutes from an incredible Christmas tree farm. Every year, we drive to the quaint, family-owned agro-tourism destination to pick out, and chop down, our favorite bushy evergreen. Afterwards, we love grabbing some hot cocoa and popcorn in the festive-themed barn before taking our tree home to decorate.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"de","enabled_languages":["en","es","fr","de","it","br"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"br":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6433,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/6433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}