Gigging and...Pajamas?

The gig today went great! Photos coming soon!  I just had to put Louis Armstrong up there at the top because his gig playing and singing are legendary!

As for after my gig today, I changed out of my performing clothes--black velvet dress with feathers and five-inch heels--and put on the most comfortable pants I could find.  And then I realized I needed to get a few groceries and just didn't feel like changing again.

So, for the first time in my college life I went to the grocery store in exercise pants. Shocking, I know!  So uncharacteristic of me.

Even less characteristic is I was actually wearing my pajama pants aka exercise pants to everyone else in the world.  The great thing is no one ever knew I was actually wearing pajama pants.

Coincidentally, there is a song that mentions pajamas (in a completely non-sleezy way) in the lyrics.  This song plays with differing pronunciations of words to show why a relationship is strained and may possibly fail!  This may sound silly, but the song really connects with the listener!  So here's "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong!

Christmas Pajamas

2011 Christmas Pajamas

The yearly Christmas pajamas!  Each year on Christmas Eve we re-enact the Nativity, open an ornament (read Our Christmas Ornament Tradition), open a Children's Christmas book (tomorrow's entry) and open our Christmas pajamas!

When I was younger, the pajamas were usually a top and pants.  The past few years it has been just a top and we reuse the bottoms due to lack of options given by manufacturers.  Santa does not like to sew!

That change could be due to many factors:

1. The aforementioned clothiers being stingy with Christmas fashions,
2. We're all adults now and not growing out of the pajamas yearly,
3. We remember the "gray sweat pants debacle" of 2007...when we all got the ugliest gray sweat pants and a red long-sleeve shirt for our Christmas pajamas...a definite disappointment (we don't reuse the gray sweat pants).

Either way, last year's tops were quite a hit!  The girls got somewhat generic reindeer shirts, but that was made up for the fact that the guys got official "Elf" shirts.  Seriously, they were the funniest pajama tops we've ever had in the history of our Christmas pajamas!

I helped Santa out this year with the Christmas pajama selection, and I can honestly say we have some pretty funny ones...definitely good laughs in store for Christmas Eve!