Christmas is a beautiful time of the year. A beautiful, busy, ridiculous time of the year. And for me, it’s also the first Christmas I get to celebrate with my now 9 month old boy who is now crawling and standing and bangs his head on things when we’re not looking.

So I decided to make it even busier for myself this year by recording a song for the annual Christmas mix tape A Beloved Christmas with Food, curated by the one and only Timothy Brown and his songwriting blog Food for the Beloved.

And yes, the song is about being busy, sleepy, and, therefore, picking out bad and/or confusing gifts.

Check out the other songs on the compilation, which are all fantastic. I also helped out Brian and Bonnie Fitch with some clarinet on their Ft. Wonder rendition of Frosty the Snowman.

Amy and I had some fun this weekend. We did a spur of the moment EP where we wrote, recorded (live), and fully produced the entire thing from start to finish in ONE DAY. It was a lot of fun and a neat (and slightly crazy) experiment.

I wrote a song last week for the songwriting blog Food for the Beloved’s annual Christmas CD, “A Beloved Christmas 2010.” It’s called Christmas Ain’t Over and it’s about good hope and charity and all that good stuff.

Check out the entire CD for other great songs. I also worked with my brother, Jonathan, and his girlfriend, Cara, on the opening track Go Tell it On The Mountain, and the Ft. Wonder track White Christmas.