My Favourite Christmas Movies List... December 1st Pick

I am seriously THE aaaaaaabsolute LEAST sappiest person in the world! I keep people at a distance and never let anyone get close to me, on purpose, thanks to my abandonment issues. BUT... I do care, more than I ever let myself actually and openly admit to those I care about. I tell my boys (two Greyhounds named Day and Play) that I love them, multiple times daily, but saying “I love you” to another person is just the hardest thing in the world for me. Basically, if I tell someone to ‘fuck off’ that means I feel comfortable enough with them to let them know I care. It’s awful, I know. Every single time I talk to my mom whether on the phone or together in person or even through email, her last words to me are always ‘I love you’... my last words are always ‘yep, have fun’... because I’m the worst; even though I feel it, I just can’t fuckin’ say it.....

Which brings me to Christmas movies.

I may not be able to speak how I care, I may rudely recoil from proffered hugs for fear of my shell accidentally cracking somewhere within the squeeze BUT... I absolutely live for and LOVE the sappiest, happiest Christmas movies!!! I seriously LOVE Christmas movies SO much that in my dreams, I actually live in one... and I went through the Stargate to get there!

I haven’t been doing much in blog writings lately so I thought that I would challenge myself to a short post daily through December as both a way to get myself writing again and as a way to share some of my favourite Christmas movies, old and new. We’ve had a beautifully quiet year without television in our house but Enz and I both agreed to have television service turned back on through November and December so we wouldn’t miss any of the new and glorious, sickeningly sweet, heart-lifting, joy-filled and sappiest Christmas movies.

And so... here I begin..... in no particular order, they are all just movies I love to live vicariously through!

My Favourite Christmas Movies List - December 1st

One Starry Christmas

Seriously, one of THE sappiest, loveliest Christmas movies, ever! An Astronomer who lives for a sky filled with stars meets a Cowboy who has a clear view of them every night from back at his home on the ranch... what could possibly make for a better fit? Well, how about said Cowboy having a rodeo riding brother with the most awesomest song to share?!! I love that George Canyon shares his magical musical storytelling gifts in the movies he acts in!

I really love this movie in ALL of it’s over-the-top cheesiness glory! I’ve watched it countless times since it first came our a few years back and though I know it by heart, it never gets old for me! That dance invitation twirl!! Trust me... don’t let your life pass you by without getting swept away in that moment of beautiful!

I always feel like I connect with movies that call people home, and I mean that in the way of having a home to be called to. I wish, more than anything, that I could somehow ‘go home for Christmas’ like in the movies I so adore. I know and understand in my mind that people and circumstances change in real life but sometimes the thought of going home just feels so necessary, so inviting and so healing when I see it happen in my favourite stories, I always find a little peace of it to keep tucked within my own wishful heart. It’s part of why this movie is so special to me, not only is it heartily heavy in the tummy butterflies chemistry but it’s also filled with a family just so grateful to get to be together, at home, for the Holidays. 

If you’ve seen One Starry Christmas and loved it... YAY! If you’ve seen it and not loved it, that’s okay, too... I will continue to be happy loving it to bits for you! And if you’ not yet seen it and it happens to be on television at some point when you are able to sit and watch... I hope you will give it a chance to become one of your favourites, too!