The Christmas action at our house started a week ago, and it shows no signs of letting up. One bonus provided by the extended festivities has been a chance to dig a little deeper into the Christmas music pile before putting it away for another year.

Today we got around to a beautiful album by Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel called The Gift. It's mostly a single acoustic guitar and a lone wind instrument -- particularly an oboe, I think. Can't imagine a nicer audio backdrop to gift opening or adult holiday entertaining. Cheers!