This is a song written from my mother's perspective.  Every year in December she would take a nutmeg grater out of the kitchen cupboard and hang it on the Christmas tree and, at an appropriate time, retell its story.  It's a true story of her family's Christmas of 1904 when they lived in Minnesota before immigrating to Saskatchewan in 1913.  Since my mother lost her voice to a major stroke in 1991, I'm now one of the ones who tell this piece of family folklore - about the nutmeg grater "to remind us what Christmas can be".

If you want more on the background to "The Spirit of Giving", click here.
If you want to read the song lyrics, click here.

Information about the sheet music project coming soon.