Last night we were grumpy. All four of us. We were all headed for a heap of cold coal on Christmas morning if things didn't change fast.
Lucky for us, Nancy Hanson had sent us her holiday cd All Wrapped Up and it had arrived only hours before in the mail. We turned it on, and it turned our whole night around.
We danced, and drummed and sang along. I tried to teach Ever how to clap (fail, too young) and The Chief ran the distance of our front room with his hands in the air like he was perpetually winning the marathon. The cd made us all so happy we listened to it twice in a row.
Nancy is a folksy singer/song writer--a performer we especially love here in Utah. Her voice is like honey, honestly, it's the voice every mother should have when they become the guardian of little human beings.All of her songs come with a wink and a smile, a refreshing mix of down-to-earth and heaven. Think Nanci Griffith and you've got your new best friend, Nancy Hanson.
On this album in particular she's collaborated with the ever-enjoyable Ryan Shupe and his right-hand man, Craig Miner. Try Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains or the upbeat spin on Away In a Manger. Or by the whole album and have yourself a happy Christmas. Coal free.
Listen or buy here.
You can also enter to win one here, you know, if you wanted. And believe me, you do.
Tell me if you are getting goods or coal for Christmas and why.
Contest ends Friday, Dec. 17th at midnight MST.
Winners!
Nancy decided to pull three winners! And they are:
Brooke
Jen
and
Deanna
But we're all winners because Nancy is offering a c jane special of $11 a cd! Right now, her cds are actually sold out at her online site, but she can work something out with you if you email her at nancy @ nancyhanson.com--she'll even pay shipping!
Thanks Nancy.
I am C. Jane Kendrick and I've been a fan of Nancy's since college. Her music makes me happy to be human.
contact me: cjanemail(AT)gmail.com
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129 reactions:
Coal I think. Lots and lots of coal. :)
maybe a little bit of coal and something good if I can just keep it together for one more week!
I'm doing my best but I've got the mother guilt, so probably coal? We'll see.
Goodies, I hope! I got coal last year.
libertylay(at)hotmail(dot)com
Goods. Lots of them, hopefully.
I haven't even thought about what I'm getting--I've been too busy buying coal for the kids :-).
utahraptors at zookee dot org
At this point, we could use coal to heat our house. I'm hoping Santa brings my husband a job for Christmas!!!
-Amy
Crafting by Candlelight
bibanon1 [at] gmail.com
I think some coal would probably do me some good:)
I've been a little grumpy the past few days so I might get stuck with coal.
I'm hoping goodies, but most likely coal! I haven't totally been in the Christmas mood this season, so Santa is probably mad at me. Glad to know there is a good Christmas CD out there... I might have to go buy it if I don't win! Thanks!
My parents gave all of us kids coal one year in our stockings - no other treats. Must have really taught me a lesson because I'm always working for the good stuff now!
Goodies. Totally. My 2 1/2 year old is having a meltdown morning, and I haven't raised my voice yet. And I'm babysitting my friend's son. So yeah, lots of goodies. :)
receiving one good. in the form of a reminder of that "honey voice" i should be using as a guardian of my five littles.....
hint hint.
Goods I think. Well just one particular good. My boyfriend took me ring shopping and if that isn't a good (well really a GREAT! Fantastic!), well, then I'm just not the luckiest girl alive. And I know I am (and you are too. It's not a position reserved for one). And so, obviously, I'm well on the goods side of things.
Mostly coal, but hopefully a goodie mixed in.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Am probably getting coal for Christmas. That is, if Santa bases these decisions on housecleaning skills.
Goodies all around.
Goods:)
I've been too busy to hardly even give Christmas proper attention...which i'm sure is a coal-ish thing to do....blast
It's Christmastime? Definitely coal since I just got frustrated at my daughter for leaving some 'coal' in her panties... I'm in serious need of some holiday spirit. Nancy might help. Love her, since college myself. Merry Christmas!
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I'm rehabing from knee surgery so often I can be pretty grumpy and "complainy"--definitely coal type of days. I am trying to be more positive so Santa will deem me "good" and my dear family as well.
I have mother's guilt too, just like most of us do. But my kids love me and they know I love them even though I'm grumpy sometimes. So I think I'm getting Goods.
My family will all be together this year instead of my hubby being deployed. So, whether I deserve it or not, I'm going to be enjoying goodies this christmas!!!
I better get goodies especially since I have to have tonsil surgery tomorrow and won't be 100% on Christmas!
juliebj at gmail dot com
Goodies. I brought a new baby into the world this year.
tnewms@gmail.com
i hope goodies but i've been lacking christmas charm this year so maybe coal.
Probably coal. I forget to do dishes a lot. And for a long time. My roommates are super nice and put up with it. And my area is always a mess.
I hope I'm getting a Christmas CD...HINT.
probably some of both!
Coal I hope. It's been freezing cold here for weeks!
I'm getting goods in the form of new countertops! I've saved my pennies for 5 years and 5 months and finally have enough to buy myself the most awesomest of Christmas presents! Wa-hoo! Good things do come to those that wait!
I hope I'm getting gifts. Well, I have been good today at least.
Oh, goodies!
I've tried to be good, I really have...but it could still be coal!
Goods for sure. I've been nice. :)
I love Nancy Hanson!
goodies, I hope! around this time of year, I'm so busy trying to make the unreasonable amount of homemade presents on my to-do list that I almost forget I get presents too :)
goodies! i've been good this year and deserve presents! :)
I'm getting goods! I'm an awesome mom and wife and I deserve it! (Toot, toot) (Hopefully my gift givers have received this same information.)
If I get coal, that's okay, cuz I've already got the goods: a wonderful husband and two beautiful daughters!
As a stay at home mom, I get really grumpy at the end of the day, so I might be getting coal. We could definatly use an upper in the evenings.
Balancing two kids, husband, two jobs, school, and housework hasn't always been the easiest but I have given it a very good try so goodies I hope!
i'm so hoping to win this! xox
I just asked my 6 month old and he said, "Goods. Definitely goods." He loves me, what can I say?
I'd better get good since I make sure my kids are dressed and well fed!
I'm getting a book shelf and hopefully some new books. But I probably deserve the coal.
We are getting a few goodies this year, but it will be a modest Christmas. In the words of my three-year old, "I have been good for twenty weeks." Hey, that's almost 50%, so we deserve something.
(Between you and me, he's been good way more than that, but how could I correct such cuteness?)
heather j phillips at gmail dot com
Is it bad that I am too tired to care what I get? Cannot be a good sign - probably means coal.
I do want to win, I do!! And boy, I sure hope I'm getting goodies for Christmas.
I love Nancy! To me, her voice is like warm caramel, covering everything in warm bliss...anyway...
I get goodies! That's one of the benefits of buying your own gifts!
i've already received a lump or two of coal this month, so hopefully the rest will be goods!!
i'm crossing my fingers for goods. but being realistic i would say a pile of coal with a teeny treat on top. wt_reeder@msn.com
I hope I'm getting goods because I try to be good mommy.
A mix... some days are easier than others.
Hopefully goods in the form of a new CD! I love Nancy. Her and Peter Breinholt's rendition of "Grow Old With Me" is on my all time favorites list.
Well, someone just gave me Barry Manilow's Christmas album, so you can take that however you want...
Today - coal. The rest of the week - lots of good stuff!
Goods....because I've worked very hard in 2010!
hmmm...probably more goods than coal, had some good patient moments following a morning of outbursts.
Any goods I am getting have all been purchased by me--gotta take care of #1.
I want the Nancy Hansen cd so bad.
I love, love, LOVE Nancy Hanson! I have loved her music for years and finally got a cd of her's last summer. LOVE! :)
And hopefully I won't be getting coal. :) Trying hard...
This year I'm getting goodies because I have loved and treated with kindness a woman who is constantly mean and nasty to me. It's the only thing about the situation that makes it ok.
Remarkably, on our poorest Christmas ever, we are having the best Christmas (and getting the best gifts) ever. Tender mercies are tangible at our house.
I love Nancy Hanson! I am definitely getting the goods! I can't say that I've done anything to deserve it, but I have very kind people in my life.
Sleep!
I love Nancy Hanson! Living outside of Utah, I had no idea she had a Christmas CD out. Crossing my fingers for goodies this year... This exhausted mama deserves them!
I probably deserve coal, but since I do ALL the shopping (even for myself), I made sure I got goods.
I'm getting tickets to wicked! :)
Hmmmmm....probably coal!
I'm totally getting goods. Because nobody really gets coal. (Just don't tell me kids!)
I've been good, but I really hope I get coal for Christmas anyway. You know, the kind has been heated and pressurized until it is all sparkly and fits nicely on my finger?
PS: I LOVE Nancy Hanson! I've heard her sing live a few times and really want this album.
I am getting, from myself, new earing- a woman can NEVER have to many. :)
i had a baby girl in april this year just like you. therefore, I'm on the nice list!
I'm hoping for no coal this year. I'm a new mom so I think just by default I should get a truck load of goods (:
I guess it all depends on what I buy myself, since I'm usually the main gift buyer. So probably goodies :). And hopefully even more goodies if my hubby gets involved. If not, he's getting coal ;).
I am really hoping for some goods, but mostly excited to give them. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE me a Nancy Hanson CD!
Hopefully Santa will think I've been good enough for goodies, but you never know. Thanks CJane for all you do, you're amazing!
goods,'cause i'm awesome like that!
Goodies!! Hoping one of my Goodies will be a new CD!
I'm getting neither. I've been very good this year but what I asked for is a clean house... not likely with 6 kids underfoot. :)
We got an early Christmas present on Black Friday, but maybe Santa will put something in my stocking.
I could have used some cheer last night when the radio station's Christmas tunes weren't doing their job. Can I really be to blame for going all postal on my family when the tunes are no good? Probably coal.
If you get A's for effort, than I will be getting goodies, because I have tried my very best!
I think I am getting goods this year-my hubbie returns Saturday after 4 mths in Afghanistan. That is the best xmas present for my daughter and me!
I'm getting goods. It's the one time of year my husband realizes that I do a lot and tries to buy off the rest of the year :)
Hopefully goodies, but most excited to just spend time with my family!
Depends on the minute - right now I get good stuff for nursing the baby and not losing it with my four year-old. This morning when I was grooming the school-age children, it was definitely coal.
Um, I'm totally getting goods. I've been awesome all year. :)
I LOVE Nanci Griffiths!!!! So finding a new nancy to folk rock to would be awesome and go with all of my other presents!!
I am getting goods for Christmas because I have been a good little girl! Merry Christmas to you and yours..
babie_kalli24@hotmail.com
Coal!
Hoping for lots of goods, but you never know :)
I'm getting fuzzy slippers. It is so cold with the humidity here in North Carolina!
I think I've been pretty good so I'm anticipating something good! I would love to win one of the CD's for my hubby...Nancy was his guitar teacher many moons ago!
Presents of course. I'm the mom and decide who has been naughty and nice.
I hope I'm getting a CD for Christmas, please, please, pick me, please!
I think I'm not 'getting' this year at all, just giving. So, I guess if I were 'getting' this year it would be 'goods', because I'm just giving this year. :)
i love nanci griffith! can't wait to hear nancy hanson! i've been pretty darn good this year.
Goods: All I want is my stocking filled.
Goods, definitely goods. My daughter has recently decided she is a marsupial and demands to be carried everywhere. So I think I deserve at least some reward (aside from my extremely toned muscles in my right arm). Especially when when you consider I have to climb up about a million stairs to get to our apartment.
Hopefully no coal for me.
coal probably...we need Something to keep this house warm;)
Well...I did buy something for myself from "Santa." It's Richard Paul Evans' newest book. Oh, and a got a shirt from shirt.woot (after Chup's review of them, I browsed and picked out the Imposter shirt).
Lots of goods.. Jesus is blessing my with a baby this May.. so I am on cloud 9!
no coal, unless it's the kind that got turned into diamonds. Is that even possible?
i'm getting goods this year, because i stayed up all night making chocolates, and i'm actually going to share them instead of hoarding them and eating them all by myself! call me the queen of generosity. so santa is hopefully paying attention . . . ;)
Aww, gee, can't we all get goodies and no coal?
Goods. I'm excited.
We don't do coal here in Denmark, so it's all goodies for me! Super duper : )
goodies! :) santa usually brings me goods..thanks cjane for the chance to win!
This Cd looks wonderful I am in the need of some good Christmas music- it is what makes the season. Coal...goods??? I guess I will let Santa decide.
I definitely deserve goods ...after mailing lots of packages to my son in Afghanistan,a bunch to my youngest son serving a mission in Washington, and hand delivering a car load of presents to my son and his family in Kansas. (Not easy considering it was a 12 hour drive ...by myself!) I am just finishing up the shopping and decorating for my daughter and her new husband who will be driving here for Christmas. So even if I don't deserve it she does since that's a 25 hour drive!
Maybe good presents for me. I've been a good girl. Well, most of the time. So half and half.
of course I am getting the goods, I am the mom aren't I.
We had a coal burning stove and one year it was so cold and snowy, the coal man could not deliver, so we were fahreezing... needless to say... I won't complain if I get coal, but most likely I'll be getting this cd, because I'm so lucky!
I am getting goods because my family loves me and so does Santa. Sometimes I am not that nice, so I should be getting some coal. My famiy loves me and always forgives me, that's why I am getting goods.
Yellek61@aol.com
Goods- in small amounts- we're going all Dave Ramsey in 2011 so we're keeping it real. And our anniversary and a daughter's birthday are this week.
Well, Let me just say that Christmas seems to happen because of women. We all should be getting goods!
...My husband is famous for going to Costco the day before Christmas to get my goods. The great part about that is that they have a great return policy if his desires don't match mine! (Hello massage table set up in my living room.)
I'm getting goods. I have four kids, eight and under. The last two count as at least five! Plus, I am playing 2nd counselor in the RS, enrichment leader, and enrichment committee at the moment! Send me some honey!
Goods! I've been a good girl this year working and putting my hubby through school.
I would love to expand my horizons to include Nancy Hanson!
Oh I'm getting goods, but I'm giving lots and lots of coal.
Actually, I bought some chocolate "coal" for hubby's stocking and the five year old was so concerned that he would think he was on the naughty list that she tattled on me!
Hopefully some goods and not coal. Although its so cold in here I could use some coal. ;-)
I just rear-ended someone, so it's coal for me :(
Hopefully a little of both...I am a fence sitter and enjoy being both good and bad.
Hopefully I will get the goods this year. My 4 week old son was hospitalized for 7 weeks and I stayed with him. Away from my husband and daughter. The children's hospital he was in is 3 hours away from our home. I'd like to win all three CDs so that I can give one to my mother and mother-in-law who came to Arkansas (where we live) from Georgia and Utah to take care of my daughter and husband while I was with our son.
abigailobell(at)gmail(dot)com
Ooh! Aren't you generous at Christmas time?
Goodies for me but coal for the kids I think. Who am I kidding? Candy coal is all I could really give.
Amy
I'm trusting Santa to use his best judgment . . . I hope he's merciful.
sarasoelberg@yahoo.com
I hope I am getting something good, I have tried real hard this year to be good...ok maybe just a little side of coal.
I think I have done alright this year. At least I am pretty sure I have not done anything deserving of coal. A Nancy Hanson cd would be a fabulous goodie to get!
I must have been better than I thought, 'cause my darling dear husband gave me a new camera for an early Christmas present (a serious DSLR upgrade from my previous point-and-shoot world). That having been said, and since I have already been given so much this year, I would re-gift (but in the best possible way, and with assurances of future borrowing rights) Nancy's CD to my BFF, who is a HUGE Nanci Griffith fan, but doesn't know Nancy Hanson *yet*.
BTW, I actually met Nanci Griffith the one and only time I've been to Utah! So, that has to count for something, right? :o) Pick me!
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