22 days till Christmas

22 days till Christmas
December 3rd
Movie of the day: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
This one is a Christmas staple. Our old copy was on the end of a VHS that had Charlie Brown goes to Europe and a Charlie Brown Christmas on it. I would usually watch all three even though the first one is not at all related to the holiday. Every year some radio station or another plays “You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch” over and over till you want to puke. It is a catchy tune but everything in moderation, please.

Christmas Carol of the day:
Deck the Halls
http://www.christmas-carol-music.org/Lead_Sheets/DeckTheHall.html
This is one of those songs that gets stuck in your head but you only remember the first line or first verse so it keeps looping in your head. Many awful versions of this one also circulated around school around the holidays usually involving Batman and Robin. Even in spite of all this, it has always been a favorite.

Christmas Trivia
(brought to you by howstuffworks.com)
Where is the World's Largest Nativity Scene located?
With more than 450 figures and hundreds of yards of landscape, the world's largest diorama of the Nativity is found in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. In the 1930s, crib maker Ferdinand Pottmesser built a giant Christmas crib along with hundreds of figurines.
Pottmesser sold the collection to Einsiedeln in the mid-1950s, and the figurines became the impetus for creating a giant diorama -- a copy of the landscape of Bethlehem and a visually accurate representation of the story of the birth of Christ.
The diorama starts with angels awakening the shepherds with news of the birth of Jesus and ends with Joseph and Mary fleeing into Egypt to escape Herod and his soldiers. The diorama attracts thousands of visitors every year.
http://christmas.howstuffworks.com/games/christmas-trivia2.htm

My mother has a wonderful Nativity set complete with camels, goats, sheep, shepherds, the three kings, the works. I would play nativity for hours when she would unpack it each year. Baby Jesus always went on some sort of adventure on the Christmas tree.
Last year I bought myself my own Nativity. The Family of three came with the stable and a huge garland lit with Christmas lights and two little lanterns. My collection is not as complete as my mother's but it was designed by Thomas Kinkade (MASTER of light and all). Lol.

Today I am putting up my tree while watching the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. They are not "Christmas" movies, really, but I watch them every winter. It is snowing out side. I think I may make some chili.