"You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch..."

Ok, I'll admit that it has been awhile since I have seen any of the old school clay-mation /puppet Christmas movies from my childhood. Aaron bought a DVD set with 10 or so of the classics in it, like Frosty, Rudolph, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, etc. There are 4 DVD's in the case, each with a couple short movies on it, so we thought that we would watch one each weekend with the kids until Christmas. Here we have the essentials:
1) Christmas cookies -thank you refrigerated break apart cookie dough, for making life so easy. After the million gingerbread men we made, I'm burnt out and shutting down the "homemade" cookie factory for awhile.
2) Santa Jammies -thanks to last year's old navy $2 sale, and

3) Christmas Stuffies -thanks to Uncle Mark & Auntie Melinda's family for the stuffies you gave the girls last year. I packed them away after Christmas, and pulled them out again with the decorations this year. They love them all over again!
4) Movies-holy cow...have you seen any of these lately? Since when is there a BAD GUY? Reese is now terrified of Snowmeizer and thinks he is going to come spoil her Christmas. And Santa? Yeah, he's getting old and no one believes in him anymore, so he is retiring. Reese liked the idea that her snowman might come to life though, look out for the Banshee in Christmas in Kalarmie though...what a wickedly weird movie. Oh and don't forget that all the characters say words like "stupid" and "hate", have incredibly low self esteem that can't be fixed without holiday magic, and no one ever gets along. Oh well, they loved the movies just like we did as kids...and we turned out alright. I mean, I no longer have nightmares of the Snowmeizer, Banshee, Stingy Man or Winter Frost coming to ruin Christmas...so the trauma must wear off eventually.