Tenth Day of Christmas

Today is the Tenth Day of Christmas.  Today is my last day of “vacation.”  I go back to work tomorrow.  Today Jeremy and I went to our friends from church’s house.  They have two small boys.  Mark is seven and Daniel is three.  It was a lot of fun playing with the children.

Here’s today’s verse from the song:

On the Tenth Day of Christmas my true love gave to me
Ten pipers piping
(Nine drummers drumming
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five golden rings**
Four calling birds*
Three French hens
Two turtledoves
And a partridge in a pear tree.)

* Note: Wikipedia says “calling birds” is a corruption of “colly birds” which are black birds.

** Wikipedia also assures me that golden rings does not refer to “jewelry but to ring-necked birds such as the ring-necked pheasant.”