AN ARDENNES CHRISTMAS

 

The next time you’re whining on about what a crap Christmas you had because your mother-in-law over did it on the sherry and told everyone what she really thinks about you or when your wife’s uncle Stan spent Christmas afternoon asleep on the sofa breaking wind with monotonous regularity.

Or your brother’s new girlfriend who kept hitting on your wife or your Gran who said “just a small dinner for me I don’t have much of an appetite” then spent the afternoon eating all the chocolate Brazils.

If this strikes a chord think again and Spare a thought for the half a million or so men of the allied forces and six hundred thousand Germans who spent Christmas 1944 outside in the snow in the Ardennes forest during the battle of the bulge.

Men like My father sheltering in foxholes scratched out of the frozen earth with no hot food or drink.

Unable to light fires for fear of giving their position away and regularly coming under enemy fire or being shelled

Then once you’ve hewn out a decent sized foxhole and settled down into it out of the icy wind an order comes down the line to move out and you move a hundred yards or less and dig another hole.

Go and tell your petty gripes to them and see if you get any sympathy.

SANTA SHOWS THE WAY

 

Several years ago, in a small town in Pennsylvania a paramedic responded to help a motorist who had suffered a heart attack.

When he arrived on scene, he noticed a man in a Santa suit directing traffic around the area of the incident.

He later discovered it was a firefighter who had been playing Santa at a children's party and came upon the accident on his way home.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA'S DOG (2012)

 

Santa’s talking dog, Hercules, in “Santa's Dog” takes us on a magical, fun-filled and touching mission, to prevent Max Moogle (Anthony Robinson), an adorable yet mischievous twelve year old boy, from making the naughty list, which he is in danger of doing.

And Hercules takes him to the North Pole to meet Santa and argue his way onto the “nice list” in the Elf court and Hercules successfully acts as Max's attorney.

However, Santa (George Maguire) tells Max that in order to make the nice list he must help a man called, Rick Wilder, (Danny Arroyo), a bitter man, find the spirit of Christmas and along the way prevent Rondo (Richard Van Vleet) the leader of the terrible toy-stealing Dogs of the North, from destroying Christmas.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1868 a

 

Despite bitter opposition United States President Andrew Johnson granted unconditional pardons to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion.

IT WAS ANOTHER SUV CHRISTMAS

 

It was another SUV Christmas

Thanks to my significant other

No not that kind of SUV, I got

Socks, Underwear and Viagra

THERE IS A SINGING ELF

 

There is a singing Elf

Up at the North Pole

With a powerful voice

For one so small and dapper

 

The singing Elf croons

All day in the workshop

So the other Elf’s call him

The Christmas Wrapper

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WISH FOR CHRISTMAS (2016)

 

Anna MacLaren (Anna Fricks) is a self-obsessed high school senior who is at odds with her community minded Christian parents, Luke and Elizabeth (Joey Lawrence and Leigh-Allyn Baker) and is frustrated by the way they put others first.

But things really come to a head when she finds out that the Winter Ball is being moved to Christmas Eve and her parents insist that she attends the Christmas Eve service at church with them.

Upset and frustrated because she didn’t get her own way she storms up to her room and wished that her parents didn't believe in God.
The next morning, she discovers that her wish has been granted, and is initially pleased with the change in them, but as time goes on she realizes she has brought disastrous consequences to her family, friends and community, but change her heart.

So in an effort to put things right she sets about restoring her parents faith, and with the help of some wise counsel from her Uncle Paul, (Jeff Schroeder) her new boyfriend, Colton Smith (Ryan Boudreau) and a street corner Santa (Bill Engvall) she is led through a series of Christmas Adventures that lead her inevitably to her Church on Christmas Eve.