It's officially Christmastime

Tonight marked the official start to my Christmas season ... "A Christmas Story" was on TNT! It is my all-time favorite Christmas movie. I'm actually watching it right now (because of course it's already on again) and Ralphie is beating the tar out of the bully kid. I love that his mom just leaves the kid all beat up with a bloody nose lying in the snow! I don't know why, but this movie cracks me up and I could watch it over and over. In fact, on Christmas Eve/day when TNT has 24-hours of "A Christmas Story", I love to keep it on all day. It drives Jon nuts! I know he likes the movie, but not over and over again! We're getting our tree this Friday. I'm not really looking forward to all the "don't touch that" and "no, no, no's" I'm going to have to say to the little kids, but it'll still be fun. They'll love the colorful lights. Hope everyone else is having a great start to their Christmas season!

Lisa :o)

P.S... Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the movie -

Ralphie: I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle! Mrs. Parker: No, you'll shoot your eye out

Ralphie: Oooh fuuudge!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word!
Mr. Parker: [stunned] *What* did you say?
Ralphie: Uh, um...
Mr. Parker: That's... what I thought you said. Get in the car. Go on!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] It was all over - I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Hmmph. Mere child's play compared to what surely awaited me.

[Mr. Parker reads a side of the box with the prize that he won]
Mr. Parker: Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian.
Mrs. Parker: Uh, I think that says FRAGILE, dear.
Mr. Parker: Oh, yeah.

Mr. Parker: He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny.
Mother: He does not!
Mr. Parker: He does too, he looks like a pink nightmare!

[overdressed for winter]
Randy: I can't put my arms down!
Mother: Well... put your arms down when you get to school.