Mid-Week Music #45 - The Twelve Days of Christmas (Large Family Style)

What? It’s barely after Thanksgiving, and I’m starting to play Christmas music? Depending on how you do things, I might be early or late! But either way, when we watched this video a little while ago, I knew I just had to put it up for this week’s MWM.

As I’m sure you can tell from the title, this is a version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” that deals with large families. The lyrics are filled, not with golden rings, swans a-swimming, or partridges in pear trees, but with questions such as a stranger might ask of a large family. There are even replies at the end!

Well, suffice it to say it was particularly funny to our large family (especially the enthusiastic “Five Golden Rings” stand-in). Still, it makes one think. Big families seem strange to most people; and they really aren’t that common. Little wonder these questions are asked so much. And yet, in the Bible, God commands His people over and over, “Be fruitful and multiply”. Many of us seem to have forgotten this. Then there is also this passage in Psalm 127:

“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them…”

God loves it when His people have big families. The parents teach their children about truth, goodness, and beauty, about the things of God and His plan for the restoration of our world. A plan that began in earnest with Jesus Christ, the celebration of Whose birth we will be preparing for very soon. Those children are then sent out into the world, to go further than their parents did or could. Just like arrows. Then they do the same with their own children, and again. The more of those children there are, the more difference they can make for the Kingdom of God.

In any case—whether you have a family of twelve or two—merry (early) Christmas, and I hope you enjoy this week’s MWM!

On the first day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the second day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“You must be Catholic!”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the third day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“How do you afford it?”
“You must be Catholic!”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the fourth day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“Are you having more?”
“How do you afford it?”
“You must be Catholic!”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the fifth day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“ARE THEY ALL YOURS?”
“Are you having more?”
“How do you afford it?”
“Are you Catholic?”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the sixth day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“Better you than me!”
“ARE THEY ALL YOURS?”
“Are you having more?”
“How do you afford it?”
“Are you Catholic?”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the seventh day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“How do you manage?”
“Better you than me!”
“ARE THEY ALL YOURS?”
“Are you having more?”
“How do you afford it?”
“Are you Catholic?”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the eighth day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“Do you know what causes it?”
“How do you manage?”
“Better you than me!”
“ARE THEY ALL YOURS?”
“Are you having more?”
“How do you afford it?”
“Are you Catholic?”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the ninth day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“Which ones are twins?”
“Do you know what causes it?”
“How do you manage?”
“Better you than me!”
“ARE THEY ALL YOURS?”
“Are you having more?”
“How do you afford it?”
“Are you Catholic?”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the tenth day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“Is this a daycare?”
“Which ones are twins?”
“Do you know what causes it?”
“How do you manage?”
“Better you than me!”
“ARE THEY ALL YOURS?”
“Are you having more?”
“How do you afford it?”
“Are you Catholic?”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the eleventh day of Christmas
A stranger said to me
“Just wait until they’re teens!”
“Is this a daycare?”
“Which ones are twins?”
“Do you know what causes it?”
“How do you manage?”
“Better you than me!”
“ARE THEY ALL YOURS?”
“Are you having more?”
“How do you afford it?”
“Are you Catholic?”
“Oh boy, you have got your hands full!”
 
On the twelfth day of Christmas
We cheerfully reply
“We’ll find them a husband!
“No, we’re not a daycare!
“They’re two years apart!
“Yes, and we like it!
“One day at a time!
“We are very blessed!
“YES, THEY’RE ALL OURS!
“They’re cheaper by the dozen!
“We shop at Goodwill!
“No, not Mormon either!
“AND WE WOULDN’T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY!!”
 

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Do you have a big family? Know someone from a big family?

Have you ever asked (or been asked) any of these questions?