Well it's creeping closer to Christmas Day now and it's been pretty fun in the Kuklis household so far. Holidays are so much more fun with small children. My son has discovered the joys of decorating a gingerbread house this year. (By decorating, I mean eating the candy and icing by the sticky handful.) I am also excited this year because our son's attention span and comprehension are enough that I can justify re-watching all of my favourite Christmas movies and cartoons much to my husband's dismay.
After successfully finding and recording the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Boris Karloff (not Jim Carrey), we watched the Whos down in Whoville with their Roast Beast and the Grinch with his little dog. It was cute watching my son singing along (sort of) with the Whos.
I also set up to tape Charlie Brown's Christmas and I discovered that my husband hates, I mean really hates, Charlie Brown. Who hates Charlie Brown except Scrooges and Grinches? Charlie Brown's Christmas is a classic. What would Christmas be like without Charlie Brown's Christmas tree? A girlfriend of mine is notorious with her family and friends for choosing the ugliest Christmas tree every year. We made the mistake of having her help us choose our Christmas tree one year and she brought us over to see the tree she had picked out. This tree had a branches missing on the top half of the tree and a strangely long mutant branch on the bottom half of the tree that jutted out a good two feet past the rest of the tree. It looked horrible and we laughed. It was then that we found out the reason that my friend is compelled to get the worse-looking Charlie Brown tree every year: she feels bad for the ugly trees that no one wants and she doesn't want the ugly tree to feel left out. So we bought the tree for a tidy discount and had an ugly tree for Christmas and it was very memorable tree and Christmas as a result.
So although my husband hates everything about Charlie Brown's round head, we will still watch it this season so our children grow up learning the true meaning of Christmas: buy the ugly Christmas tree so it doesn't feel left out. Next up on the Christmas watch list is the terribly bad Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with the Elf who wants to be a dentist. It's going to be great.
