THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MY CHRISTMAS FAMILY TREE (2021)

 

Having grown up in the foster care system after the death of her mother at the age of 9, New York City social worker Vanessa Hall (Aimee Teegarden) has no living relatives, or so she believed, but then she receives the results from her Family Tree DNA test.

Vanessa learns that there is a positive paternity test and that her biological father is Richard Hendricks (James Tupper), who is alive and well living only an hour's drive away in Barrington, Connecticut with his wife Pauline Kendall Cross and their three adolescent children, Caitlin Ava Telek, Aidan (Colby McClendon), and Emilia (Georgia Mae Orchard).

After the two meet and talk, she is invited to spend a few days with them, to get to know them before she meets the extended family on Christmas Eve, so she accepts and Richard arranges for family friend, Kris (Andrew W. Walker), to give her a lift.

After some initial unease on both sides, Vanessa and the family make an emotional connection, and she and Kris make a different kind of connection.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A GINGERBREAD CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

Having missed out on a permanent position in New York, Hazel Stanley (Tiya Sircar) travels to her home in Chicago to spend Christmas with her father, Ted (Sugith Varughese) and finds the family bakery in a bad state of repair and in financial trouble.

She also discovers that her father has hired a new baker James Meadows (Marc Bendavid) who is also doing some of the repairs and they do not have the smoothest of beginnings.

The biggest shock however was finding out that the bakery across the road taking all of their business was owned by her former best friend Shelby (Kyana Teresa).

The only solution to their financial problems and to keep the bakery operating, was to enter a gingerbread baking contest offering $100,000 prize.

As they prepare romance blossoms between Hazel and James although some misunderstandings threaten to keep them apart and an unlikely partnership is needed for the competition.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IS YOU (2021)

 

Rachel (Carmel Amit), the boss at Kemp Street Management sends Emma Bloom (Becca Tobin) to her hometown to convince famous pop star Tyler Thorn (Matthew MacCaull) to sign with their agency after discovering that they were high school sweethearts.

Tyler had already headed home to Vermont, after firing his manager, to spend Christmas with his family for the first time in years.

When Tyler and Emma meet there is an instant chemistry between them, but they are immediately caught up in the collective effort to save the annual Christmas Carol Celebration so there never seems to be the perfect moment for her to make her pitch.

The longer it went unsaid, the more difficult it seemed to be, but will a trip down Memory Lane allow Emma to finally admit her feelings for Tyler.

HE STOOD IN THE COLD CRISP NIGHT

 

He stood in the cold crisp night

Beneath the moon and the stars

And looked at the majestic vista

Imagining such a perfect night sky

Two thousand years before

THE GRINCH AND THE ELF

 

When love was taken from him

He was left bereft, and his heart stopped

And his world was transformed

To a place of ice and snow

Where his cold heart,

Once over flowing with love,

Froze solid in his chest.

So he came to like the winter

With its long cold nights

And short dismal days

He found comfort in the season

And its bitter unfriendly ways

Only Christmas spoiled it for him,

Disrupting his misery,

With its joyous music,

Gaily decorated shops,

And of course, its joviality

But then one day out of the blue

As he tried to avoid the jollity

It happened, his heart began to thaw

All because of an Elf

Or to be more precise

A girl in the green tights, pointy shoes,

Brightly coloured tunic and a cute hat

All it took was one smile

For the connection to be made

And she had him body and soul

Although he was unaware

It was a mutual attraction

Because she didn’t show her hand

And played hard to get

She wanted him, but she made him work 

To win her, to pursue her

To prove that he was worthy

So it wasn’t until Christmas Eve

That the Elf yielded to the Grinch

And they kissed by the light of the moon

Before attending midnight mass

MY PRETTY LITTLE MISS

 

The first time I met

My pretty little Miss

We needed mistletoe

To share a Christmas Kiss

 

Now when I meet

With my pretty Miss

We need no artificial aid

For us to share a kiss

 

And when we meet

And we share a kiss

Every day is Christmas

For me and my little Miss

UNDER THE CHRISTMAS MOON

 

Moonlight glinted

On the frozen land

Of the silent vale

Dressed crisply

In winters cloak.

A shooting star

Flashed across the sky

And I made a wish

Nothing profound

Just a simple thing

But immensely special

Because I wished

For a Christmas kiss

With the girl I loved