Holiday Tradition #1 out of 876
December 1, 2007
Posted by Chris @ 2:13 pm
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Can you share some information about that entertainment center and where it came from? We need a new one and I haven’t found one I like yet, but yours looks nice.
December 1st, 2007 at 3:12 pmOh, yes! Time to get out all the Christmas movies! That’s my favorite part. We always save the Grinch for Christmas Eve, though.
December 1st, 2007 at 3:21 pmRUDOLPH?
December 1st, 2007 at 3:28 pmThat is SO Frosty the Snowman!
December 1st, 2007 at 3:33 pmMy favorite is 24 hours of The Christmas Story on Christmas eve. Wrapping presents with Ralphie and his family at 2:00 a.m. Good times. Good times.
December 1st, 2007 at 3:40 pmThat is so funny that Julie mentioned The Christmas Story. My husband tries to get through every year without even catching a glimpse of that movie and has yet to accomplish it. The kids and I do our best to make sure we trick him into it.
We have lots of traditions it seems like too…but we now save The Polar Express for Christmas Eve. There is just something so magical about that movie…
December 1st, 2007 at 3:55 pmWe did the same thing with Charlie Brown Christmas the other night….
http://theroadtohome.net/?p=28
December 1st, 2007 at 4:07 pmis it weird that i watched the polar express all by myself last night? the kids were in bed… and it was on…
December 1st, 2007 at 4:18 pmI love Frosty!
December 1st, 2007 at 4:37 pmKatie,
It is IKEA. Even the baskets.
OMSH…It’s FROSTY! He was crying about something or other.
December 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pmoh poor poor sad Frosty : (
December 1st, 2007 at 5:13 pmThe number of times we’ve rented Elf and A Christmas Story I could have bought 10 copies each. I think I should break down and purchase the classics. Poor Frosty…that greenhouse scene made me cry up until about last year.
December 1st, 2007 at 6:55 pmikea rocks! we have the same entertainment center, And pretty much the rest of our flat is from ikea too..
December 1st, 2007 at 7:17 pmWhen The Christmas Story first came out we saw it and loved it. Every time I asked my husband what he wanted for Christmas that year, he said “A Red Ryder BB gun.” As it happened that year they had an anniversary edition of Red Ryder BB guns, so of course, that is what he got. He still has it and finds it handy to scare the squirrels away from the bird feeders. He hasn’t hit one yet, I think he would be appalled if he did!
But I have not had children around at Christmas enough to recognize the picture on your TV! I’m sure my kids and grandchildren would, though. I can just see the glazed eyes of your kids as they watch.
December 1st, 2007 at 10:43 pmOh, yes! Happened to turn the tv on the other night and there was some sort of Charlie Brown Christmas show on, but it was definitely not the one we all grew up with, it was strange! Sally had greenish colored hair and Lucy was extremely hip, not the cranky know-it-all we all came to love. Charles Schultz must be turning circles in his grave as we speak!
December 1st, 2007 at 11:34 pmPolar Express is my son’s favorite and I could watch it with him every time. “you got it! Hot Chocolate!”
We just rented Santa Clause for the first time and he was enchanted.
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:19 amgenpoco - Target had a DVD that included Elf AND A Christmas Story, and one or two others. Sounds like your kind of deal!
Our family usually watches White Christmas and if we’re really in the old movie mood we throw in Singin’ in the Rain, even though it’s not Christmas-y. The older girls like Little Women (with Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder) and the adult girls like Love Actually!
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 amelf reigns supreme in our house.
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:30 pmWe have already watched the new Shrek Christmas like 20 times now. I Love Puss in Boots’ part. I am pretty sure it is already a classic in this house.
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 amTraditons, to me, are one of the most important things we can leave our children. There is always the challenge of finding enough time to invest, but especially during the Holiday season, when we are at our busiest, I think we need to invest more in our kids than in our shopping.
I love the video clip from Tim Kimmel, on atmosphere in the home…which I’d love to share with all of you during a time that we are focused on tradition.
http://iquestions.com/video/view/640
Hope you love this as much as I do!
Rebecca
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:07 amWe love the old movies as well. Both the traditional cartoon ones and the older movie ones. Elizabeth, if you like White Christmas, you might also like Holiday Inn (1942). We own them both.
And, a lesser known movie: The Bishop’s Wife is a tradition with us each Christmas season.
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pmGotta love Frosty!! He looks sad, poor guy. We have to watch this movie every year too.
December 5th, 2007 at 10:21 amOkay. I’m sad to say that I had not even thought about starting holiday traditions with my girls (seven and one). I suppose because we really didn’t have any in my family. But, now I am inspired. I LOVE the idea of wrapping up and choosing a book each day… Gotta get started - only 18 days left!
December 6th, 2007 at 11:40 am