Hot Cocoa and Cheese, please!




This morning when I drove to work, it was raining, chilly, and dark. I felt like it was the middle of the night. I wished more than anything I could go back home, get in some warm pajamas and stay in bed watching predictable, same-plot, Christmas movies. Here it is, 1 day before Halloween and I have to admit, I did start watching Christmas movies a week or so ago. It seems that I want to watch them earlier and earlier each year. This made me start thinking, why is it so many of us like these cheesy movies? I mean we know nine out of ten times it’s going to be a guy or girl going back to their old hometown, they are either widowed and have a kid who wants another parent or they need to save the family business. Usually, as soon as the characters realize they have feelings for each other, one of them finds out that the other is working for a big corporation and trying to buy the other’s family business and tear it down for a multimillion-dollar complex of some sort. Of course, by the very end, the misunderstanding gets cleared up and they kiss and the movie ends. The next one starts with flurries falling down, Christmas music playing and most likely a woman in high heels hurriedly running down a wet (but clear) sidewalk, snow only on the sides, she slams into a handsome stranger and drops all her packages, Haha! 
I think once the seasons start to change, especially here in New England, there’s nothing more comforting than warm pajamas and a snuggly blanket. This weekend, we set the clocks back for daylight savings, to me it’s just more reason to want to make hot cocoa and get lost in another typical, Christmasy romance. I really don’t know why so many of us continue to watch these movies, we even laugh at ourselves for doing it, but we still do. Maybe it’s a respite from holiday stress, mindless entertainment, or a way to relax. So whether Lacey Chabert is baking cookies and wishing for a handsome stranger to stroll into her bakery, or Candace Cameron Bure suffering from a concussion or amnesia that sends her to a fictional family to teach her to appreciate the guy who wants to settle down rather than chase the partnership of the largest law firm that doesn’t appreciate her, I’ll still be watching. If you are like me, a sucker for these movies, drop a message explaining why you think we hardcore Christmas movie fans love this stuff, is it nostalgia, the drama, the warm and fuzzies? What? 

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