Oíche Chiúin

What?!!! Christmas in August?

You must not know me very well if you are wondering how I could post a Christmas song in the middle of the year.

In our house, the Christmas tree is up way after Three Kings, the Christmas lights on the grills are up the whole year round, and Christmas carols can be played whenever one feels like it.

Yes, I do listen to Christmas carols in the middle of the year.  I like a lot of things about Christmas, and among them are Christmas carols.

This music box belongs to Mother.  It plays Silent Night.  She winds this up whenever she misses her children. So as you can imagine, with ten of us to miss, the music box gets wound up pretty often.  

At Cebu Avenue, Silent Night can be heard at odd hours of the day (4 am, 3 pm, 12 mn,  you name it, it's been played at that time) twice or thrice a week (if not everyday) in January and December (and any month in between). 

The music box is silent now because Mother is fortunate enough to be visiting one of the siblings.

Silent Night (Oíche Chiúin) was written on Christmas Eve in 1818 in Oberndorf, Austria. It was a poem written in German by an Austrian priest named Father Joseph Mohr.