Merry Christmas …from our home to yours!

Though Craig and I are taking a break, we thought you might like a challenge – a mental test for your family, friends, or just you two as a couple.How well do you know our familiar Christmas carols and expressions?!

Translate these well-known Christmas songs or sayings into “plain English”!

1.Move hitherward the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief

2.Listen, the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds

3.Nocturnal time span of unbroken quietness

4.An emotion excited by the acquisition of expectation of good given to the terrestrial sphere

5.Embellish the interior passageways

6.Exalted heavenly beings to whom harkened

7.Twelve o’clock on a clement night witnessed its arrival

8.The Christmas preceding all others

9.Small municipality in Judea southeast of Jerusalem

10.Diminutive masculine master of skin-covered percussionistic cylinders

11.Omnipotent supreme being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males

12.Tranquility upon the terrestrial sphere

13.Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of minute crystals

14.Expectation or arrival to populated area by mythical, masculine, perennial gift giver

15.Natal celebration devoid of color, rather albino, as a hallucinatory phenomenon for me

16.In awe of the nocturnal time span characterized by religiosity

17.Geographic state of fantasy during the season of mother nature’s dormancy

18.The first-person nominative plural of a triumvirate of far eastern heads of state

19.A joyful song of reverence relative to hollow metallic vessels which vibrate and bring forth a ringing sound when struck

20.The distant location of an improvised unit of newborn children’s slumber furniture

21.Proceed forth declaring upon a specific geological alpine formation

22.Expectation of arrival to populated area by mythical masculine perennial gift giver

23.Celestial messengers from splendid empires

24.It’s a fluff-ball sphere in the cold season

25.It’s starting to appear extremely similar to December 25

26.Boppin’ while circumnavigating the Tannenbaum

27.Castaneous-colored seed vesicated in a conflagration

28.Singular yearning for the twin anterior incisors

29.The quadruped with the vermillion proboscis

30.Query regarding identity of descendant

31.A dozen festive 24-hour intervals

32.Parent observed osculating a red-coated, unshaven teamster

33.Please permit pristine precipitation

34.Are you experiencing parallel auditory input?

35.Jovial yuletide desired for the second person singular or plural by us

(If you’re stumped by any and would like the “key,” let me know!)

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