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)