Tuesday Tea: Share a holiday movie you love.

Gimme all the fairy lights and Christmas sweaters

[Scrooge (Albert Finney) realizing that fun is fun.]

Hello, friends!

Dave and I have a long-standing tradition of picking out holiday movies and making a schedule for what we call the Couch Christmas Film Fest. It’s very prestigious — with a strict dress code of comfy pants, warm socks, and a sweater you don’t mind being festooned with crumbs. A blanket and an ornery cat are recommended, but not required. All changes to the schedule must be annotated in red and witnessed by two people (us).

This is what our movie list looks like this year:

We did, in fact, watch A Very Jonas Christmas — even though neither of us can name a Jonas Brothers’ song — and it was surprisingly cute and entertaining. And yes, the 2025 Couch Christmas Movie Film Fest schedule is decorated with coloring book images I colored. You can’t tell from the picture above, but that’s four different pages, cut up and sort of decoupaged together. (‘Retro Holiday Art Coloring Pages’ here. I also have this one of Nordic-inspired holiday cheer. Coloring holiday pictures is a great way to listen to more audiobooks.)

We just finished watching the third season of the Netflix show Home for Christmas, a charming story about family, love, and friendship in a perfectly Christmas-y Norwegian town. Fair warning: Season 3 ends on a cliffhanger, so if that’s not your thing, watch S1 and S2 and stop right there. (Although S3 was great! But, really? We have to wait a year — or maybe forever — for resolution. That’s not holly jolly!)

The Christmas episode of our podcast will be out this Friday (YAY!), and in it, you’ll hear us talk about the one movie we always watch: Scrooge, the 1970 musical version of A Christmas Carol starring Albert Finney. It’s not Christmas for us until this happens:

Spill the tea: Share a holiday movie you love.