MY WIFE WAS IN THE KITCHEN

 

My wife was in the kitchen

And I went in to take a look

While she cooked the goose

Just before I goosed the cook

SILENT NIGHT

 

On the morning of Christmas Eve in 1818, an Austrian priest called Joseph Mohr, was told that the church organ was broken and would not be repaired in time for the Christmas Eve service.

He was so saddened at the prospect of Christmas without music that he decided he would try to write a carol that could be sung by the choir and be accompanied by guitar music.

So, Joseph sat down and wrote three stanzas and later that night the people in the little Austrian Church in Oberndorff sang "Stille Nacht" for the first time.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE ELF WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE (1997)

Unhappy and hapless young Elf, Elmer (Sean Donnelly), disenchanted by his life as an Elf at the North Pole, wants to become a real boy, but has no idea how to achieve that ambition, but then he inadvertently steals Santa's sleigh and escapes to the real world, where he meets a young girl Jolie (Margo Harshman) who needs a heart transplant, and the pair of them have to outwit local villain, Slick (Burke Morgan) and save Christmas.

LAUREL

 The early Christians in Ancient Rome were the first to decorate their homes with laurel.

They adopted the idea from the Pagan Romans who used laurel during the Saturnalia festival and who believed laurel was sacred to the sun god Apollo.

When the Romans Empire became Christian laurel became a great symbol of Christmas.

DEVON SUPERSTITION

 

If, on Christmas Eve, in the county of Devon, a girl knocks on the henhouse door and a rooster crows, she will be married within the year.

MUSIC IN SPACE

Round the world they go

In nineteen sixty-five

Orbiting the earth

So high up in the sky

 

Dashing round the world

Above the earth they race

Jingle Bells the song, was

The first one played in space

 

O Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way.
Oh! What fun it is to ride

In a spaceship far away hey

 

Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ALL I WANT IS CHRISTMAS (2012)

Ira J. Finkelstein (Elijah Nelson) is a Christmas obsessed Jewish boy.

He's seen every Christmas movie ever made and his dreams are filled with reindeer, sleigh rides and of course, snow.

The problem is, apart from the fact that Ira is Jewish is that at 11 years of age he feels that Christmas is passing him by and When Ira's hopes for a holiday vacation in Aspen are dashed, he hatches a plan to finally get the Christmas of his dreams.

When flying unaccompanied to visit his grandparents in sunny Florida, he swaps tickets with Mikey Amato (Justin Thomas Howell), another 11-year-old also flying unaccompanied on his way to Christmastown, WA.

But they not only trade airline tickets but places as well and Ira gets more than he bargained for when he experiences his first "White Christmas".

Elliott Gould and David DeLuise also star in this pleasant Christmas caper.