I am a bit excited. Actually I am driving my kids crazy. One told me I am cut off from sugar because I am too hyper. I had 2 tsp of sugar in my coffee this morning and water the rest fo the day… There went that theory.
This is my time to knit and watch my favorite seasonal movies. Here is the list of my family’s must watch movies over the next several months.
Starting Thanksgiving day we will watch:
Miracle on 34th Street
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Bishop's Wife
It's a Wonderful Life
Frosty the Snowman
Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer
Christmas Chronicles
The Santa Clause
White Christmas
Holiday Inn
Meet Me In St Louis
Arthur Christmas
Christmas Carol
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Holiday Affair, Charlie Brown Christmas
Die Hard
Nightmare Before Christmas
Harry Potter
A Christmas Story
Christmas With the Kranks
Prancer
Christmas in Connecticut
Santa Claus: The Movie
Jingle All the Way
Babes in Toyland
Joyeux Noel
Deck the Halls
The Star
The Little Drummer Boy
Nestor the Long Eared Donkey
Jack Frost
Polar Express
I will be knitting a gift for my husband. I also have gifts for others to knit and the two blankets to work on during this time. I know there are some I have forgotten to list as I always forget some of the ones we watch every year. A good number are watched on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve and New Years Day.
What do you all do this time of year? Are there movies you must watch this time of year? Books you read? Music you listen to? What traditions do you have?
oh and there are a few other movies my children were kind enough to add to our must watch this year list. Now if we can get some snow I would be most grateful.
You already have most of my favourites, but I can add Scrooge with Albert Finney, and Scrooged with Bill Murray to the movie list; we often add The Lion In Winter, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and Gremlins. On Christmas Eve (my birthday) we have our holiday horrors, with choices from the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, Krampus, Rare Exports, Santa’s Slay and Saint. Around the holiday I like to read the stories of MR James, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, and there’s a beautiful novel by Carolyn Sheehan called Magnificat which I think is perfect for this season. And every year we watch one of three ballets by the Royal Ballet that we have on blu ray - The Nutcracker, Cherevichki, or Sleeping Beauty.
My favorites are already on the list. The others I will be watching are not Christmas movies, but the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was originally released in theaters during the Christmas season, and they were the last movies I watched in a theater with my father before he passed.
So my list is:
Charlie Brown Christmas
LOTR
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (the original claymation)
I love that one too, it’s so sweet. My mom loved the feel-good Hallmark Christmas movies and watching them always makes me think of her. One that came out after she passed that I love and I know she would have loved as well as The Rooftop Christmas Tree. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. It is definitely a feel-good movie!
How about a trivia game about holiday movies? We can ask questions and see who can answer - without googling the answer! I’ll start though my question is not about a specific movie.
What beverage do they regularly drink in Hallmark Christmas movies?
For those of us who do not have the Hallmark Channel, I wanted to let you know that you can search YouTube for them…for free. I have a television with rabbit ear antennae and can receive the ION channel. They play them on there too.
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