I’m feeling a little under the weather, so I’m going to post this with only a general link to Rudi’s blog. He’s driving from Salt Lake City and arrived in Kansas tonight.
We did it! Or maybe time did it, despite our howling wildly and clinging to its ankles. Either way, we’ve made it to the final week of the Advent season.
Behind today’s door, we have a second post from raidergirl3 at an adventure in reading. She shares memories of Christmas visits to her grandmother and includes one of her Nan’s recipes for us to try. (For those of you don’t know, raidergirl3 is the longest-running participant in the Virtual Advent Tour, which I’m pretty sure is how we “met” oh so many years ago now.)
Before you head off to her blog, though, make sure you listen to the song above. I like to find a Canadian song to pair up with raidergirl3’s post every year. This year, I found a link to “Dear Old Santa,” written and performed by Liah Clayton, a 16-year-old girl from Prince Edward Island, who is donating the song’s proceeds to CBC’s Feed a Family Campaign.
I’ll see you back here tomorrow.
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Before I send you off today I wanted to acknowledge that today is Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday in Advent. Here is “Gaudete” from Erasure, which might be a little more synth-heavy than you’re used to:
Behind Door #15 we have a post from Constance at Staircase Wit, who shares a game that her family plays with their Christmas gifts.
See you back here tomorrow!
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The Holiday (2006): Two women, one in L.A. and one in an English village and both reeling from heartbreak, trade homes at Christmas and find what they need most.
Love Actually (2003): A series of interconnected London romances coalesce through the holiday season, culminating on Christmas Eve.
The Polar Express (2004): A boy, teetering on the edge of no longer believing in Santa Claus, takes a train to the North Pole, ultimately discovering faith in the unseen, yet still known.
Elf (2003): A man, raised by an elf in the North Pole, moves to New York City, in search of a relationship with his birth father, a high-powered ad executive. This is Will Ferrell at his funniest.
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017): A fictionalized version of Charles Dickens, teetering on the edge of personal and fiscal crisis, is haunted by the ghosts of the characters who will come together to form the cast of A Christmas Carol.
Arthur Christmas (2011): In this animated tale, Santa’s bumbling, but well-intentioned younger son, must fix a misdelivery in time to save Christmas for a little girl while overcoming a series of misadventures involving reindeer and his grandfather.
The Santa Clause 2 (2008): In the second of the Santa Clause trilogy, Santa discovers there’s a second clause and that he must find a wife or forfeit the job.
A Christmas Prince (2017): In this Netflix film, a journalist goes undercover in a fictional European nation as a governess to get the scoop on the heir to the throne, but she discovers a much more personally interesting story. (There are two sequels, the newest of which I haven’t yet seen, that continue the saga.)
The Man Who Saved Christmas (2002): Based on a true story, a Connecticut toymaker, whose factory is requisitioned during WWI petitions the government to let him resume making toys to bring joy to the nation’s children during wartime.
The Christmas Chronicles (2018): In this Netflix film, two siblings’ attempt to photograph Santa on Christmas Eve go off the rails, taking them on an adventure that results in Santa’s imprisonment and one of the most joyful jail-cell jams in cinematic history.
Are there any Christmas movies from the past 20 years that you particularly love?
