UPDATE: The winner is comment #61! Congratulations, Tara.
Our tree is trimmed with the oh-so-classy theme of kiddie ornaments from the last 4 decades. My hubby and I have favorites from our childhood and my kids have carefully placed their “special” ones at eye-level. I just can’t do anything fancy or grown up. And all these people who have multiple trees HOW? It was all I could do to get one together.
But my tree does spin.
So, there’s that.
I bought the tree stand spinner when it seemed crucial one year to true Christmas happiness. Every year when my hubby drags it out and we roll our eyes at my silliness for buying something so unnecessary, he says, “I’m so thankful you were rescued from wealth.” But we have it, so we use it.
I sort of have a thing for Nativities too. I just love them. But besides the festive colors and twinkly lights, it’s the music that makes it really feel like Christmas in our house. I love Christmas music in the background of our busy life.
My new favorite Christmas album is by Mandisa, called It’s Christmas. It has an great selection, including the song Somebody’s Angel. Have you heard it? The movie footage in the video below is from the Gospel Music Channels original movie Christmas Angel that premiered this month. It will be playing throughout the Christmas season. This song is a simple reminder in a hectic time, to be somebody’s angel this year.
I know there are so many needs right around us if we’ll just look. I’m so excited about our family adopting a local single mom to secretly deliver gifts and groceries too.
I want my kids to feel the magic of Christmas, get something from their list and enjoy the wonder of it all. But more than anything, I want them to remember the reason we celebrate.
It’s Christmas.
It’s about Him.
Today, I am giving away Mandisa’s new Christmas album PLUS the Christmas Angel DVD and her entire collection of albums to one lucky winner:
What If We Were Real
Freedom
True Beauty
Remixed: Get Movin’
Leave a comment as your entry.
This giveaway ends Thursday. Winners are announced on giveaway posts once they close.
I just found your blog a few weeks ago. I’ve really been enjoying it! Merry Christmas!
Our whole family loves Mandisa
This would be quite the gift 
EEK! I don’t own any of her stuff, but I love her. Hope I win!
Love Christmas music too! This year will be fun since our daughter is almost 2 and will enjoy things more than last year! Thanks for the giveaway!
Love Christmas music!!! That movie looks really sweet, too!
What a wonderful giveaway of such amazing music. We too are helping out a couple of single moms and it would be so much fun to include a couple of Mandisa’s albums to each mom. Merry Christmas Kristen to you and your family.
I love, love, LOVE Christmas music!
The trees with all kids ornaments are always my favorite!!!
my tree sounds like your tree, sans the spinner??? i have the raggedy ann ornament my 1st grade teacher gave me….
Wow! Great song and I really want to see that movie!
Love this!!! I didn’t see where the winners of Matt Redman were announced tho…..
I absolutely adore Christmas music. I usually have it playing all the time.
I love Mandisa & Christmas music!
I would love to win
I’m sure my daughter would love this, and we’d all love to watch the movie.
I love Nativities too! The Christmas cd I’ve gone back to is Wow Christmas. I love Toby Mac’s “It’s Christmas”. Would love to try some new stuff though:)
Tree stand spinner – how genius! Although, we usually hide our “least favorite, but gotta put them up” ornaments in the back
Mandisa’s one of my favorite artists – what a treat this win would be! Thank you 
“Good Morning!” is one of our favorite songs by Mandisa. Would love this package for my children.
One tree and lots of music. That’s how we do Christmas around here too!
What a wonderful giveaway. And what a gift it would be to be the lucky winner!
I’m sitting here trying to imagine your tree spinner … what kind of speed does a tree spin at? Do ornaments ever fall off? So many questions this brings! LOL
Oooh! I would love to win! Love Mandisa! Thanks for the chance.
Loved the video of Somebody’s Angel. Can’t wait to see the movie!
just recorded the movie….love Mandisa and Christmas movies!
I love Mandisa! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Love Christmas music and Mandisa. Thank you!
love her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love Mandisa!
More music! That’s what I need
Love Christmas music playing in our house throughout the season! It’s especially relaxing in the evening when the fire is going in the fireplace, the lights are dim, the Christmas tree is lit up, the ‘winter’ scented candles are burning, and beautiful Christmas music is playing.
I love Mandisa!! Thank you!
I’ve not seen or heard either one, just heard of them. I’ll have to go check Mandisa out on ITunes. I love my Christmas music!!
LOVE Mandisa and the movie looks like the perfect Christmas movie. It actually plays tonight at 9 p.m.
Love some Christmas music!!! And need some new songs to listen to!!!
I think last year you recommended David Crowder Band’s “Ode to Joy” and it has become my favorite Christmas album! So even if I don’t win I have a feeling I’ll be buying Mandisa’s album too!
Wow. Cried over that video…thanks for the reminder – the album would be exciting to have! Laurin
Mandisa is amazing and I would love her Christmas album – I would love some good music!
I first hear Mandisa at a Women of Faith event a few years ago and loved her and her story and how real she is. I love her music as well, bonus!!! 
Christmas music is a favorite around here
Always eager to try new Christmas music!
We love Christmas music at our house!
I would love to win!
My ten year daughter hangs out in her room with Mandissa blasting on her stereo and singing her heart out! I would love to win this for her!
Who doesn’t love Mandisa?
Oh how I can so relate to your tree story!! We FINALLY got ours up and decorated this past Sunday afternoon!! It was stressful, tiring, but really so much fun in the end…and of course, good Christmas music a MUST during this yearly event!
Wonderful music just makes EVERYTHING better!
I would love to win this. My kids LOVE her “goodmorning” song from KLOVE.
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Listen to Mandissa on KLove. Love your blog
We love Mandisa! Haven’t heard the Christmas album yet, I’m sure it’s awesome.
My 8 year old daughter loves Mandisa! She is an awesome artist that I do not mind my daughter admiring.
Oh – amazing giveaway – I love Mandisa!!!
We love Christmas music!
We LOVE Mandisa!
Looks like a great movie! Loved the song!
Oh I love Mandisa! Got to see her at Women of Faith a few years ago in her hometown of Sacramento, Ca.
Thank you so much. Merry Christmas.
I am secretly (well not so secretly now!) coveting your tree spinner! How did I not known that such a thing exists?
My daughter and I love Mandisa! Love her!
Love love love Mandisa! I regularly play “Good Morning” on my way to work.
i’ve got barlow girl’s christmas station playing constantly on pandora! i’m off to find mandisa now!
What a good idea about secretly adopting someone and delivering gifts.
We are planning to choose someone and do this this next week! Thanks for the great idea!
That’s a great prize. Thanks for doing the giveaway.
I love Mandisa! Awesome that she has a Christmas cd!!!
Would LOVE to hear her new CD ! such a great giveaway!! ♥
Love me some Mandisa!!!
thank you for the opportunity! Love Mandisa!
Love Mandisa! My kids love to dance to her music!
She has such a beautiful voice — amazing woman of God!!!!!
We love Christmas music!
Love Mandisa! Wonderful giveaway!!!
We’d love this! Thanks for the chance!
I really like her new song for Christmas – it helps to keep the focus on the true meaning!
Would love to win this … we can always use new Christmas music in our house
I love Mandisa music and I love your blog and through it, you and your family!! Merry Christmas!
Ps….I’m still giggling over your rescue from wealth. It’s true though, isn’t it?
I love Mandesa….just saw her in concert. Merry Christmas.
Like you, we’ve really simplified Christmas the past few years. Especially when it comes to gift giving. But you can never have enough Christmas music, right? I’d love her new album! I just heard her new song on KLOVE this morning. Thanks for another great giveaway!
Your tree spinner makes me laugh. I could never use one… it’s all I can do to make ONE side of the tree look balanced and beautiful. The backside of our tree doesn’t look as nice!
But I DO love me some Christmas music!
Thanks for the opportunity! I havent added to our Christmas music collection in awhile. This would be perfect!
i have heard her christmas album is wonderful! i would love to win it! thanks for the giveaway!
I would love that CD!! Thank you for this blog, I love it!
Mandisa makes me smile! I would love these cd’s!!
Our family loves your blog! Thank you for being so honest in all your posts! We also would love to win some new Christmas music !
Thanks for the Christmas music giveaway. One can never have too many Christmas cds. The music video sounded and looked really good!
We have never bought an ornament for our tree. They have all been gifts. As you can imagine, it makes for quite the eclectic collection.
I would love to share this with my daughter, and we love good Christmas music!
would love to win for my daughter (or myself I guess-though I have to honestly admit I have never listened to her) Your tree spinner had me laugh out loud! LOVE your blog, your heart, your ministry and your family. Merry Christmas to THAT FAMILY
We love Christmas here and celebrating our saviours birth
I LOVE your blog and I LOVE Mandisa! Great combo! Merry Christmas!
Love it! We could use some new Christmas music, it’s such a favorite of all of the kids’ to listen while we decorate the house!
I’m curious as to how you went about adopting your family. For example, how do you know what size clothing the kids might be in, etc. I’d love to do this for a family!
I love Mandisa! Thanks for sharing this video!
Love Mandissa and can’t wait to hear this Christmas album. Thank you!
Love Mandissa`thanks for the giveaway!
I LOVE Mandisa…huge fan…and would love her Christmas album!
I wanna win!
Would love to see this movie. Thanks for the giveaway.
I love Mandisa! What a blessing you are to so many people!
This would be a lovely Christmas gift!
Thanks for your blog and the encouragement and challenge you share through it
I am listening to a Steven Curtis Chapman Christmas cd as I write this and looking forward to a house filled with my kids and their kids on Christmas Day – lots of noise, laughter, singing and rejoicing at our birthday party for Jesus. May God continue to bless your ministry!
This would be wonderful to have Mandisa’s latest. She sounds great!
Love Mandisa, I have heard her many times with Women of Faith. Excited to get her Christmas album.
Would love some new music. Thanks!
I’m one of those who puts up a whole bunch of trees…each with a different theme. I absolutely love Mandisa’s new song “Somebody’s Angel”. Amazing!
I love stopping by here!! Merry Christmas and thanks for being such a blessing!
I too have a thing for nativities! I’m so thank-ful for the dayspring outlet in my town! I love Mandisa!
Merry Christmas!
This would be a great addition to our family.
Thank you for a wonderful, Christ-filled giveaway
We love Mandisa’s the few songs we have heard from Mandisa’s Christmas album. Can’t wait to hear them all!
Merry Christmas from our family to yours!
Great collection! That would be awesome!
Love Mandisa! We’ve seen her twice at a local christian music festival. She has such great energy and a beautiful heart!
Oh, I love me some Mandisa!! Thank you for a chance to win!
Thanks for this opportunity- we would cherish the music and movie as a reminder of what celebrating Jesus’ birth really means today! The Puffer Family
Merry Christmas!
I’m always up for new Christmas music.
My favorite Nat King Cole Christmas CD is lost this year. I’d SO love to replace it with Mandisa. Thanks for adding the disclaimer at the end of the post. I always wondered if you contacted winners or if you expected us to remember we entered and return to see if we’d been selected. Have a good one, spinning tree and all.
So I may have just googled “tree spinner” to see if I “needed” one!! <3
I would love to win.
Thanks for the awesome giveaway! Love me some Mandisa!
We need a new Christmas CD! Thanks for the chance!
I love Christmas music in the background of our lives during this time of year too!
I love Mandisa! Thanks for the opportunity!
Oh yeah! Loving Mandisa!
Would love to have this CD! I didn’t even know she had a Christmas CD out!
I love what you are doing for that special single mom and her family!! A great inspiration to look not to ourselves this Christmas but to those around us. Thank you!
Seriously your blog just fills me with such comfort. The craziness, the realness brings me such comfort. I love you guys. Oh and yes the music is beautiful too.
I love Mandisa and Christmas music, so this would be awesome!
This would be a great addition to small music collection.
I look forward to your blogs every night
thanks for sharing all you do!
Our tree is the same theme as yours!! My mom saved all my ornaments as I grew up and gave them to me as an adult for my tree and then when I had my girls I buy them a new ornament (sometimes more than one) each year to add to their collections! I love everything about the Christmas season and this year it has been especially hard to get decorated and into the spirit because we have had several significant deaths in the family this year. God is so good though!! Thank you for offering this great Christmas giveaway and I wish your family the Merriest and Blessed Christmas ever
I love reading your blog! Thank you for your heart for ministry, your inspiration, and your encouragement! And thank you for the Mandisa CD give-away opportunity!
Oh I love Christmas music, though my 3 year old thinks we only should listen to Veggie Tales Christmas music
Spinner Tree Stand…who knew? Thanks for sharing this!!
Love Christmas music!
You are so right when you say there are so many needs if we just look around us. I always ask the Lord to help me be intentional about serving, about meeting the needs of others in the ways He wants. He has met so many of my family’s, and to whom much is given much is required. I just want to give glory to God for blessing us so we can bless others! My family’s advent calender is full of ways to serve that He chose for us, ways that my family in particular can serve, and it has been such a blessing. Not that this comment isn’t long enough, but I also wanted to add I’ve been following for a few weeks and God has blessed me personally so much through your blog! Praying blessing for your whole family, and a very Merry Christmas!
Rescued from wealth! I need to remember that phrase.
Merry Christmas!
Mandisa and Christmas! That sounds like a great combo to me!!
I would love to have a new Christmas CD
I LOVE Mandisa, but have none of her CDs. I’d love to win this! Merry Christmas!
Love her! Haven’t heard her Christmas album yet, but I’m sure it’s awesome!
I’d love a new album – haven’t ever heard of her!
my heart is happy when there is an email from we are that family! And Christmas is my favorite time of the year, for sure…glory to our King!!!
What a great give away! Thanks for a chance to enter. Love your blog.
Thanks for the giveaway offer!
So cool! I heard her speak and sing at Women of Faith once and she was so inspiring!
Merry, merry!
Ok…I will admit..I am one of these crazy tree ladies…we have 11 total. But there is a story…we lost our Christmas decorations in a huge natural flood disaster in 1997…and from all over the place people sent us trees and ornaments. It was unbelievable. Well over 85 trees,etc…of which we placed in well needed and loved homes. But many were specific to us with hand made ornaments, etc…incredible details that we had to celebrate…so each year we celebrate that love of all those who thought of us and it reminds us to do more for others. God bless!
PS would love to win. The mandisa giveaway.
Wow. What an amazing giveaway! I have recently discovered how much I enjoy Mandisa; and I tend to sing Christmas music year round. So Mandisa and Christmas music all in one album? Does it get any better?
I love nativities too, along with the tree and the music, those are what I always insist on having out for Christmas, no matter how simple we decide to keep the decorations that year.
Merry Christmas!
Thanks for your introduction to Mandisa ….what a lovely giveaway!
WE LOVE MANDISA!
My kids and I sing GOOD MORNING at the top of our voices whenever it comes on the radio!
Love her voice. Thanks for this giveaway. Merry Christmas!
Mandisa AND Christmas music? Yes, ma’am. I think I may just love that!!
I found your blog thru your book. The “I googled superglue and baby lips and I’m pretty sure thats how cps found me” line still makes me laugh!!! I love all kinds of christmas music and could definitely use some new material!
I saw Mandisa at a Women of Faith event a couple of years ago. Her God given gift is wonderful (not awesome, only God is awesome). Would love to get her CD’s
Excellent!
I {HEART} Christmas music! Great giveaway!