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Darn! I was so sure this would be it.  It sounds wonderful, so I hope someone else remembers.
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I'm not familiar with a video about the nativity animals, but here is a link to a parish site with legends about the animals:
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Mackfam wrote:
I remember that one had to do with the Robin and how tradition holds that he received his red breast when he saw the little infant Jesus in the manger.
EWTN no longer plays it.
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I can't help w/ the EWTN connection, Jen, but the children's book The Christmas Bird by Sallie Ketcham and Stacey Schuett has this legend and is featured in Christmas Mosaic.
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DianaC wrote:
I'm not familiar with a video about the nativity animals, but here is a link to a parish site with legends about the animals:
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That was a great site, Diana! Even if we don't find the program you generous ladies have supplied more than enough material to focus on some of these legends and traditions throughout Advent! Thank you all so much!
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| I can't help w/ the EWTN connection, Jen, but the children's book The Christmas Bird by Sallie Ketcham and Stacey Schuett has this legend and is featured in Christmas Mosaic. |
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Thank you so much, Cay...  I don't have Christmas Mosaic...yet so I didn't know that! A book would probably be lovelier anyway. I'm excited that my library has this! I'll definitely add it to my Christmas list this year! Thank you so much for recommending it!!!!!!!!
 to all of you for helping me!
And now, I'll stop hijacking this thread and actually contribute!
I of course have to mention that I'm a schmaltz...so anything Bing or any old movie I'm a sucker for...
** White Christmas
** Come to the Stable
** Christmas in Connecticut
** Holiday Inn
** Miracle on 34th Street
** Little Women (with Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon - few remakes are better than the older versions, this one is!)
** The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey - we really enjoyed watching this last year. It's well done. Keep kleenex near!
** Desk Set - Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy - I don't know why...we just love watching this movie during the holidays
** Holiday Affair - Janet Leigh, Robert Mitchum
and....
I am a total SUCKER for all the sappy Hallmark movies they play during Advent. I have a date with Hallmark and a cup of hot chocolate every night!
and...
my husband, brother, and dad love to watch the very irreverent "A Christmas Story" - you know the one...."you'll shoot your eye out"!!!!
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Mackfam wrote:
| I am a total SUCKER for all the sappy Hallmark movies they play during Advent. I have a date with Hallmark and a cup of hot chocolate every night! |
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I wish I could join you. My dh would make me feel like a fool for indulging in them (and we don't have tv), but they are so nostalgic for me. Do you remember the one with Roma Downy called Borrowed Hearts? I loved that movie in spite of its complete sappiness and silly plot.
Of course, we watched the Christmas Box movies every year--and cried every time. I have no idea why it can be so enjoyable to be emotionally manipulated like that
I can only imagine I've missed some whoppers since I got married in 2003 
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No kidding!!!!!!!
....love the Christmas Hallmark movies too!!!
We'll have to start a thread the beginning of Dec......."December Hallmark Movie Support Group" .....and we can swoon and be all gushy together
note to self: A Holiday Affair, Silent Night (Hallmark-Linda Hamilton)
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Looking for something tonight, I found these two lists of Hallmark movies:
Great Hallmark Movies
Great Family Films from Hallmark
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Good grief.... I just realized I serial-posted about HALLMARK MOVIES!!!!!!   I've GOT to combine a couple of those.  That's just a bit much. I have a reputation to protect as a BOOT-SHOPPER ....I can't have people thinking I'm slacking on my boot-searching in the name of sappy-hallmark-movies!!!
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SuzanneG wrote:
| Good grief.... I just realized I serial-posted about HALLMARK MOVIES!!!!!! I've GOT to combine a couple of those. That's just a bit much. I have a reputation to protect as a BOOT-SHOPPER ....I can't have people thinking I'm slacking on my boot-searching in the name of sappy-hallmark-movies!!! |
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Your secret is safe with us, Suzanne!
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Suzanne
I'll add:
- Amahl and the Night Visitors (with Teresa Stratus)
- Muppets Christmas Carol
Opera and muppets. Yeah, we're real deep here. Or maybe I should say diverse.
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Our favorites during the Christmas season are:
White Christmas
Jack Frost with Michael Keaton
A Christmas Carol(George C. Scott)
Polar Express
and our all-time favorite, especially the kids'
Boys Town with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney
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SuzanneG wrote:
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FIRE UP THE SUPPORT THREAD, GALS!!!! The Christmas Hallmark movies have started. I'm watching one right now!
Kleenex box - check
Low lights - check
Hot chocolate (in lieu of dinner plans) - check
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Just adding to the list. We watch The Homecoming every year after we put up the tree. It's the first Walton's movie.
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We watched The Christmas Miracle of Jonathon Toomey and it's really good!!!!!!
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We just got this from the library!!! It's been years since I've seen it.
Adding to the list, my favorite romantic comedies for the season:
**While you were Sleeping
**Serendipity
**The Family Stone
**The Holiday
Love The Family Man, It's a Wonderful LIfe, Miracle on 34th street and Elf was a big hit last year!
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My favorite Jane Austen to watch during the holidays is Emma. I love all the Christmas party scenes and find the natural decorations so inspiring. Everything is so warm and cozy and jolly, it makes me happy. I just put it on to clean the kitchen by
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It's TIIIIIIIMMMMMMME!!!!
Any new favorite Hallmark Christmas schmaltz to mention here? Any new Christmas movie favorites?
The kleenex-and-hot-chocolate-Christmas-movie-support-group is ASSEMBLED!!!!!! (where is Mary with some kind of perfect sobbing over schmaltz emoticon for us??? )
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I don't think this movie has been mentioned yet so I'm adding (mentioned on another thread):
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A fantastic movie on this is Joyeux Noel... truly great. One of the few foreign films that held my dh's attention the whole way through. |
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Adding Silent Night which is along the same lines - Christmas Eve 1944 and Linda Hamilton plays a German mother who seeks refuge from the war with her son in a cabin. When American soldiers and German soldiers show up at their cabin they all manage (after many tense moments) to embrace the Christmas spirit and celebrate the holy day together. It's very moving!
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Mackfam wrote:
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It's TIIIIIIIMMMMMMME!!!!
Any new favorite Hallmark Christmas schmaltz to mention here? Any new Christmas movie favorites?
The kleenex-and-hot-chocolate-Christmas-movie-support-group is ASSEMBLED!!!!!! (where is Mary with some kind of perfect sobbing over schmaltz emoticon for us??? ) |
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Well, as a non-cable owner, I'm excited by all the Hallmark Christmas schmaltz that is FINALLY available on Netflix Instant.
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Sarah reminded me of one of our favorite recent releases:
Love's Christmas Journey which is the most recent release from the Janette Oke Love Saga series.
Yeah. Love saga. Go ahead - tell your husband you want to cuddle up on the couch and watch THAT together! Just make sure you hand him a new Cabela's catalog to flip through while you watch!!!
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What...maybe something like this...???
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