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"The ability to love can never be taken away from me, except by me. When I can get myself out of the way long enough to love another human being, it's the best feeling I know of."
I have a weird holiday tradition or so I've been told. It's not a holiday for me until I see my favorite movies. For Halloween I have to watch Jeepers Creepers and Final Desitnation and Charlie Brown "The Great Pumpkin" at Christmas I must watch "Its' a Wonderful Life" and " A Christmas Carol" but it has to be the one with Alastair Simms no others are the same for me and I do not like the modern remakes!!!! Now this year I am bringing back an old favorite that I forgot about "Home Alone" one and two. Oh and when I decorate the tree I have to play "The Little Drummer Boy" I simply cannot decorate a tree without that song. And every year I have to listen to "Carol of the Bells" my favorite song ever other than Drummer Boy. I think I love to watch the movies and listen to the songs because they bring back memories of happy times and it just makes me feel so good all warm and fuzzy like coming home.
Please share some of your Holiday traditions weird, funny, heart warming, traditional. All Traditions are welcome.
Please share some of your Holiday traditions weird, funny, heart warming, traditional. All Traditions are welcome.
Yep, It just isn't Christmas without certain things. My go to Halloween things are Meet Me in St.Louis [has a great Halloween part], It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! and The Bad Seed. I do usually watch Miracle on 34th Street -the Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwynn & Natalie Wood version on Thanksgiving, before or after football. Christmas for me is not complete without It's a Wonderful Life, The Homecoming [Waltons], A Christmas Carol [the version you mentioned and the George C. Scott version], ALL the old cartoons -The Grinch, Rudolph, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, The Little Drummer Boy [Greer Garson is great!] The Year Without a Santa and Frosty. The House Without a Christmas Tree and Meet Me in St. Louis [Yes I love that movie], and Holiday Inn. When decorating the tree I usually have a couple videos playing -one being an odd little number called A Currier & Ives Christmas. It is just Christmas music playing while they show Currier & Ives prints and Christmas cards. i love Christmas and like you have my Christmas Carol favorites: The Happiest Christmas by Petula Clarke, The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Andy Williams, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Judy Garland, but I really love a lot of Christmas Carol favorites. Too many to list here, lol. Thanks, Mary, for sharing. That was way cool. Oh yes, I also read A Christmas Carol every year and at least the beginning of Little Women. -Love, atticus
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I don't celebrate Christmas like most peeps....I celebrate it the weekend after New Years becuz it is easier and less hectic....none of my guests are in a hurry to leave (I get better buys on gifts as well).
So on the traditional Christmas day.....I sit in my jammies and curl up with a blanket on my comfy couch and watch "While You Were Sleeping."
This year I'm actually gonna watch that movie on Christmas Eve so I can get dressed so my mom and I can go to the movie theater to see "The Life of Pi" (hopefully it is still out) and just hang out casually.
When I was a little girl we sang "The Little Drummer Boy" in a choir performance for the church. I LOVE that song to this day. It brings back some very special memories.
Thanks for sharing your traditions Mary.
I just watched The Alistair Sim version of Christmas Carol. That's my fave. I have the dvd of it but is free to watch in its entirety on YouTube. Good old You Tube. Lol
I Do the usual things but I am open to doing something different like going away to a warm island and chilling out on the beach during the holidays. I would LOVE to do that one yr.
But until then I just go along with The flow. It's not always my favorite time of the yr. but I seem to be doing better this year. Not so depressed. Sometimes I get very depressed and heavy hearted around this time of yr but I will still go through the motions as I have husband and son.
And so I usually put a tree up, lights, Candles. I like to have candles out.
I put my snow globes out. Love my snow globes and my snow men ornaments. . I like celebrating the winter, snowmen, Birds feeding on the feeders, Holly and mistletoe.
I always buy a poinsettia in a pot. I bought a cream one This week as it goes with my decor better thAn the red. I have golds and creams and pale whites in my holiday decorating and on my tree.
I always cook a turkey dinner. That's work!
I always get egg nog and I have brandy and put a capful or two in the egg nog. Yum.
And I watch a movie. Me, eggnog and my doggy.
I am alone a lot but my husband will be here for four days during Christmas week.
Like I said one yr we are going to go away. Bahamas, Jamaica, Bermuda, Virgin Islands, somewhere like that. I think we need to win the lottery though.