Staff Picks: Our MVP-Worthy Christmas Movies

It's hard to believe that today marks exactly one week until Christmas! I don't know about you, but Christmas usually brings back fond memories for me. I grew up in Pennsylvania, so Christmases would involve bundling up and traveling to visit family, where we would eat really good Italian food and open presents in a small living room. I love Christmas. It's my favorite holiday — the food, the music, and the lights all fill me with a sense of hope and joy. And as 2016 draws to a close, those are two things we desperately need before we enter 2017.

One of my favorite traditions is watching certain Christmas movies during the holidays. Perhaps you and your family and friends have a certain film — or films — that you watch every year together. For me and my family, it's the 1966 animated special Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I remember coming home from candlelit Christmas Eve services with my family, only to put on our footie pajamas and curl up on the couches with that movie.

In celebration of Christmas movies and traditions, our staff is changing things up this week: rather than a TV MVP post, our final MVP-style post for the year will revolve not around television, but our favorite Christmas movies. (Thank you, Chelsea, for this idea). So sit back, relax, and enjoy our Christmas discussions!

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