Favorites

I wish I could post more since it's such a fun time of year, but I thought I'd post about what holiday movies and music me and my family like. I'd love to hear what your family does!

Favorite Movies:

• A Christmas Story (there are so many quotable lines from this movie! We have seen it a million times and always laugh!)
• A Muppet Christmas Carol (definitely my favorite version!)
• Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas (Also done by Jim Henson & the Muppets, it's really cute but less well known)
• Prancer (a girl finds what could be Santa's reindeer...gotta love Abe Vigoda as a curmudgeon veterinarian)
• White Christmas (We love old movies and it's got some good songs and dance numbers)
• A Charlie Brown Christmas (We have gotten so many Charlie Brown Christmas trees over the years!)

Favorite TV episodes:

• The Raven Christmas episode from Northern Exposure (They do a raven pageant- the raven brought light to the world)
• "Refrigerator Day" from the tv show Dinosaurs (Remember it from the early 90's? Another Muppet creation. Are we sensing a theme?) The Dinosaurs celebrate Refrigerator Day as a Christmas-like holiday (they decorate their fridge!) celebrating when dinosaurs invented refrigerators and didn't have to wander anymore. The analogy is that because of Christ, we don't have to wander anymore. I even went so far as to make my dad a Happy Refrigerator Day card! Try to watch this show if you can- it's out on DVD now and hilarious.

Music:

• God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen/We 3 Kings Medley by Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan
• Winter Wonderland by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
• Happiest Christmas Tree by Nat King Cole
• Sleigh Ride by the Andrews Sisters
• The Merriest by June Christy
• Ring Those Christmas Bells by Peggy Lee
• Winter Wonderland by Tony Bennett
• Carol of the Birds by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
• We 3 Kings by Mitch Miller and the Gang
• Wizards in Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
• Little Drummer Boy by Johhny Cash (Johnny Cash? Christmas music? It's a strange but good combo)
• Do You Hear What I Hear by Jonny Mathis
• Sleigh Ride by Steve & Edie
• Stop the Cavalry by the Cory Band
• Silent Night by Jose Feliciano
• Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt (not Madonna!)

And the best ever:

O Holy Night by Perry Como

I like a lot of obscure music, can't you tell?

Stay tuned for Christmas traditions!