Oh my, it is that time of year again isn’t it. Dust off the kids Advent calendars’ and hang em up because tis December! We can now spend a whole month telling our kids.
“No, today’s not Christmas, but its coming soon”
My plan to make it through this season is going to be distraction.
“No, Santa isn’t arriving for 3 weeks, but tonight is the night we watch Elf, Yay!”
So, I’ll kick off the month of December with my favorite Christmas movie. Who knows, maybe I’ll come up with 25 of them. It beats trying to get to the mall.
A Christmas Story – It doesn’t feel like Christmas to me until somebody tells Ralphie
“You’ll shoot your eye out kid.”
I adore this movie and though some moments may not be appropriate for 6 and under (the soft glow of electric sex comes to mind) I still think it’s a hilarious movie and my older child likes it (especially the lamp). As with most movies that I treasure from my childhood, my kids to not find this movie to be nearly as interesting as I do. Don’t expect your kids to have your tastes, but its also important to have traditions, right? Midnight mass, Uncle Ernie’s curiously strong eggnog, or caroling could be yours. Mine is A Christmas Story.
If you’ve never seen a Christmas story (my mother never had until a few years ago – where she was while I watched it I have no idea) Ralphie is a young boy who decides that what he really wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder bee bee gun. He goes to great trouble to try and convince his parents and then Santa to get him one for Christmas, but every adult he tells his wish to tells him he’ll shoot his eye out. The movie is set in the 1940’s and is beautifully narrated by Jean Sheppard.
Rated PG
Metacritic score 77/100
