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Day 7 of IJA 12 Days of Christmas brings us A Christmas Story. For many of you the first exposure to this movie was from the 24 hour marathon on TBS every Christmas (do they still do that?). Growing up this movie was synonymous with Christmas although I don’t think I saw the full film until I was older. The list of quotes and memorable moments though are ingrained in our pop culture. You’ll shoot your eye out! Remember kids – drink more Ovalteen Look it’s Italian!  Frageelé Oh fuuuuuudge! The interesting thing about each of the moments though are that taken out of the Christmas context could be funny …

For day 6 of our 12 Days of Christmas, we’ll be looking at A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965).  Now I know this is not technically a movie but in my household we can not go a holiday season without this gracing our screens!  As Charles gets the feels about “Miracle on 34th Street”, I too get all the feels when this film comes to mind. The ever-down-trotten Charlie Brown is searching for the meaning of Christmas through all the commercialism and production that surrounds him.  His best “frenemy” Lucy suggests he direct the Christmas play.  Through all his efforts and his affection for a whimpy Christmas tree he still never …