My mom, Jonni Greene, is here to visit me for the holidays, and I thought it would be great fun to sing a few songs together. So, here we are singing The Christmas Waltz, The Christmas Song, and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. It was wonderful to share the love of music — and each other — with my mother this evening! And it’s neat that we can share it with the world as well.

I sing this Christmas song and simultaneously express it in signs from ASL (American Sign Language). I purposely adapted some of the hand-shapes to create sign-rhymes. While no song that is simultaneously sung and signed is truly ASL, I do hope that I have created something here that can be enjoyed by both hearing and deaf people. I also believe that people of all faiths can appreciate the hope that each newborn child brings: that he or she may help to heal this world.

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