Mon. Jun 23rd, 2025

A Few of My Favorite (Holiday) Things

Holiday Movies

  • A Charlie Brown Christmas
  • Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1938 version with Reginald Owen)
  • It Happened on 5th Avenue
  • O. Henry’s Full House (Cop & Anthem, Clarion Call, Last Leaf, Gift of Magi, Ransom of Red Chief)
  • Room For One More (Carey Grant & Betsy Drake)
  • A Christmas Story (red ryder BB gun is my Snoopy Sno Cone Maker – refer to 12/7/10 entry)
  • Rick Steve’s European Christmas (I have an incurable travel bug so I live vicariously through Rick)

TCM Greatest Classic Holiday Films has a four set DVD that includes: (1) A Christmas Carol; (2) It Happened on 5th Avenue; (3) Christmas in Connecticut; and (4) Shop Around the Corner.

Holiday Music

  • Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack “A Charlie Brown Christmas
  • Lifetime Music presents “Christmas Belles
  • Celine Dion’s “O Holy Night
  • London Philharmonic Handel’s Messiah Hallelujah Chorus
  • Whitney Houston’s “Do You Hear What I Hear

 

Warm & Fuzzy Moments

  • First snow of the season
  • The smell of hot apple cider and roasted nuts
  • Watching the nieces and nephews shake presents under the tree like they’re still toddlers
  • Playing Rummikub or Scattergories with the family
  • Receiving Christmas cards ( I keep them for years)