Christmas Movie-a-holic

Denise Neil wrote a column on Sunday about favorite Christmas movies. Apparently, the Sunday or two before she requested readers to email her their favorite Christmas movie traditions. It's comforting to find that I am not alone in my Christmas movie addiction. The article listed many of my own personal standbys and a few I would have never considered as Christmas movie material (see Die Hard, I mean I realize it takes place during a Christmas party but seriously, how Christmasy can you get seeing people chucked out of glass windows and shot in the head!)

My season always begins with Elf and While You Were Sleeping. Then I spend the next few weeks getting my Christmas movie fix:  White Christmas (when I always remark that someday I'll have a Christmas party and wear a dress like that in the finale!), The Nutcracker w/ Misha, Christmas Vacation (this scene is reminiscent of Brad last year), Holiday Inn, The Preacher's Wife, A Christmas Carol (w/ Patrick Stewart) (this stemmed from the audio version of Dickens read by Stewart, so when he acted in this newer version I was hooked), In the Good Old Summertime (the final scene is Christmas eve), A Christmas Story, and all of the cartoon/puppet classics, especially Santa Claus is Coming To Town w/ my favorite character, Winter Warlock, and The Year Without a Santa Claus with the Miser brothers, and The Little Drummer Boy. And of course, the Christmas movie season is not complete without The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and It's A Wonderful Life.

By the time Christmas arrives, I'm pretty much movied-out, but content. My Christmas movie addiction is satisfied until next year, when the craving begins shortly after Thanksgiving dinner.