Now that advent has begun, and we've lit candle number one. I think it's a good time to start sharing some Christmas cheer!!!! And nothing gets me in the mood for Christmas more than snow, carols, and classic tv.
Well the snow I am afraid I have no control over. But I want to take the opportunity to rediscover my love for one show in particular: Charlie Brown's Christmas.
Now I know a lot of people never understood Charlie Brown as a kid. Actually, I never really did. It was only when I got older that I realized how hilarious it could be. And Charlie Brown's Christmas is one of the only Christmas cartoons that really gets Christmas right; every aspect of it. I have three favourite parts of the show, and would like to share them with cyberspace. :)
The first is Linus's famous scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKk9rv2hUfA
The second is Lucy and Schroeder at the piano, when you hear for the only time in the whole series Schroeder's toy piano sounding like a toy piano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie0lJ1QCHZ4&feature=related
And the third? Why, Charlie's tree of course!!! Best moments are when Charlie Brown thinks he killed the tree, and when Pig Pen is singing with the others every time he moves his head the dust gets kicked up again. lol. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Hv9YmhGpw
Christmas is my favourite time of year. Seriously, I'm not just saying that. I mean sure, it's cold here in Canada, and we sit inside by the fire more because we're snowed in that anything else - or because we forgot to plug in the car overnight and now it won't start in the -35 degree air, and there is NO fresh fruit to be found at the grocery store, but hey, that's half the fun!! Mandarin oranges from China, 20 different kinds of nuts, baking and hotchocolate, crackling fires that smoke up your house before you figure out how to open up the chimney, lopsided snowmen and snowangles and snowball fights, shedding trees and precariously-balanced ornaments, midnight mass or any other incredible christmas service, and ta-da! We celebrate when a certain baby came screaming (presumably) into the world. What other miracle deserves a happier time of year?!
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