Do you have holiday movie traditions? Growing up the staples in our family were It’s a Wonderful Life and Wizard of Oz, since they were on television every year, along with a collection of musicals: South Pacific, Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music, White Christmas. Of course A Christmas Story was on television as well, but it wasn’t one of my favorites.
This year Kurt and I are watching all of the above except Wizard of Oz, and added a few of our own favorites to our Christmas movie marathon: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, The Year Without a Santa Claus, and Die Hard.
To accompany our nearly seventeen hour movie marathon, we’re gorging on buffalo chicken dip, l’il smokies in bbq sauce & jelly, spinach dip with pumpernickel bread, deviled eggs, scallops wrapped in bacon, cream puff cake and, of course, because we actually do want some healthful choices in there: assorted raw veggies. This is the first year I’ve substituted low fat ingredients for most of the recipes, and turkey bacon for the scallops. (Of course, I would trade it all for one dark chocolate marzipan bar {sigh} ).
What are your holiday traditions? What are your holiday foods? Do you have movies you watch every holiday season (regardless of whether or not they’re actually holiday movies)?
However you celebrate or not celebrate, remember, it really is a wonderful life, so don’t shoot your eye out and whatever else you do, remember to shout “Yippee Ki-Yay Mother [Fluffer]!”
Love, Marla
