Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts

Friday, December 3, 2010

My favourite Christmas movies: a list

Here are some of my absolute favourite Christmas films.  We will certainly try to watch all these and more in the countdown to Christmas:









  1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - a classic holiday must-see
  2. The Sound of Music - maybe not necessarily a "Christmas film", yet I watch it each and every year during the holidays.
  3. A Christmas Story (my brother in law has an appearance in this film!)
  4. The Holiday
  5. Love Actually (I own this dvd and watch it throughout the year) - Hugh Grant as the British Prime Minister is so wonderful!  Such an awesome cast.
  6. The Polar Express
  7. A Miracle on 34th Street (the remake)



A list for Nana

As I mentioned before, my mom a.k.a. Nana will be arriving here in just over a week!  My little guy is so excited and asks about Nana every day.  He says, "Nana coming, Santa Claus coming".  {It seems Nana and Santa are having a romantic affair and are coming out west together...! } 

The other day we were stuck in traffic, something that just doesn't normally happen to us in our small town.  But we were in Vancouver and stuck we were for a good hour.  How did we pass the time, my two year old and I?  By making a mental list of all the things we want to do with Nana while she is visiting us over the holidays!  Here is what I can remember:


  • bake cookies (cookie cutters and cookie sprinkles are waiting patiently on the kitchen counter)
  • visit Santa Clause at the mall (annual photo - matching sweaters required)
  • go to the Aquarium to see Scuba-Claus
  • ride the mini-rail train in Stanley Park
  • go swimming
  • go skating
  • go to little sneakers
  • make snow angels
  • drink hot chocolate with marshmallows
  • build a snowman
  • go sledding with our new toboggan 
  • decorate our Christmas Tree
  • sing Christmas Carols
  • watch Christmas movies
  • go to the "choo-choo train store" (local toy store)
That's all I can think of for now.... but it sounds like a good list and we can't wait for her to get here so we can get started on all the fun!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Books I loved as a child (and can't wait to read to my boys!)

Okay, here they are in no particular order:
  1. Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
  2. The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis  (particularly The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe)
  3. The Little Prince, by Antoine Saint-Exupery
  4. Harry Potter, by J. K. Rowling (these are waiting patiently on the bookshelves for the boys to grow up a bit... as they are 2 and 7 months respectively)  As an aside, I didn't read these as a child (obviously) but cannot wait to read these with the boys.
  5. James and the Giant Peach, by Raold Dahl
  6. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
  7. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak  (we do actually have this one already - it had a serious run for a few weeks in our house where we read it about 10 times a day... I'm including it on the list because it was seriously one of my favourites)
  8. The Velveteen Rabit
  9. Alice in Wonderland

I found these books to be so magical - and they were no doubt responsible for kick starting a life-long love of reading (particularly fantasy and sci-fi genres).

I am really looking forward to re-reading these books and rediscovering the magic with my boys!

Any other suggestions?  What were your favourites as a child?