When I think of Christmases with Ben, I think of music

Each Christmas Eve, Ben would play the organ at our local church’s candlelight service, and our two children would take part in the Nativity. Then we would walk home and have homemade mince pies and the children would want to have their own carol service. The children were very inventive and as they got a little older, they even made their own order of service sheet. Ben dutifully played their chosen carols on the piano and we all sang with the children acting out various parts. It was magical – the children, the music, the Christmas tree and decorations. And of course, the laughter. Christmas morning always started (too early) with the sound of the children discovering their stockings and delightfully opening each little present together.