For some reason after Christmas cookies, I think of Christmas movies. Maybe because we didn’t have a lot of specifically Christmas books that I remember, but I do remember watching movies with my family at Christmas time.
Now, I have kids and I have my own Christmas movie traditions that we keep every year, and it seems like every year we add another movie that we have to see for it to feel like Christmas.
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I will happily sing this song from Thanksgiving to Christmas, I don’t care that it’s not “One more sleep ’till Christmas.”
At least once we will watch A Charlie Brown Christmas
I had a short period of time where I recorded every Christmas movie I could find, and that’s how I found the last movie I’m going to share, The Christmas Card. It’s a fun romantic comedy that Jeff and I enjoy watching a couple of times every Christmas. I always enjoy romantic comedies, but the more recent trend in them is for it to be couple after couple falling into bed together.
I’ve tried my kids on many of the other Christmas classics from when I was a kid, but they’ve never really warmed up to them. They haven’t wanted to watch Frosty or Rudolph really.
What Christmas movies do you watch with your family?
I’ve got a couple of movies I’m going to try and check into this year, it’s going to be the same mystery as always if the kids will like it.
This is part of Creating Christmas Traditions series come back tomorrow as I talk about Christmas giving traditions. For more Christmas posts check out iHomeschool Network’s 5 Days of Christmas series.
I’ve never watched The Christmas Card – but I’ll add it to the list 🙂 We like Arthur Christmas, too – added that one last year. And, for corny, television, Christmas romance type movies…I think The Christmas Kiss tops the list for me (except that the leading man has a plastic, Ken doll look about him – kind of strange).
I’ll look up the Christmas Kiss, it sounds right up my alley.
We watched “I’ll be Home for Christmas” for the first time this year and liked it. I guess one would call it a romantic comedy, but my boys watched it and didn’t find it too focused on the romance for them. I will look out for the “Christmas Card” for the older crowd in the evenings after the younger two’s bedtime.
I’ll look for “I’ll be Home for Christmas,” I don’t think I’ve seen it.
Adding The Christmas Card to my list, too. Mike and I need a nice movie night date.
I think you’ll really like it. Especially with her emphasis on family.
Adding the Christmas Card to my library order! We also enjoy The Nativity Story.
I KNEW I was forgetting something! It wasn’t with my stack of Christmas movies when I was writing these and I completely forgot that one.
Our family owns most of these movies, and we love them. I’ve never heard of The Christmas Card, but it sounds fun!
You should try it out, you’d probably like it.
I so agree with you on The Muppet Christmas Carol! It’s my favorite too. I am also partial to It’s a Wonderful Life and, from the new ones, I liked Love, Actually. I am going to check out The Christmas Card too!
I’ll have to check out Love, Actually, I’ve heard the name, but not seen it.