12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - Counting from 12 to 1 as you finally do when singing the last verse of this long, tedious but fun song, things begin to break down in the middle and go haywire in unexpected ways. Begin with the Drummers on the 12th Day of Christmas and make your way to the 1st Day and A Partridge in a Pear Tree.

Journaling: The 12 Days of Christmas started out pretty good but somewhere in the middle things started going wonky. The Geese weren’t laying, the Swans weren’t swimming and the 8 Maids decided that they would rather be dancing than milking. So they traded their pails for slippers and are now dancing with the Leaping Lords. (And did Carl ever make it into the photo of the 4 Calling Birds?)

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