4th Day of Sock Yarn

On the Fourth Day of Sock Yarn, Simply Sock Yarn gave to me...

my very own Hot Chocolate Knit Kit!

If you'd like a chance at winning this package featuring Swift Yarn Singles in Jewel Thief, tasty hot cocoas, snowflake marshmallows, snowflake stitch markers and a felted ornament, answer the following question in the comments below:

What holiday movie or song always puts you in the celebrating mood? Is Michael Buble your thing? Do you enjoy laughing with your kids to Christmas Vacation? Do share with us something that you and yours really enjoy watching or listening to each year. Perhaps you'll introduce someone to something new!

For me, it's the movie White Christmas. This year, my Love and I actually had a child-free date night and dressed up, went to a fancy dinner and watched a local production of the musical. It was a really cool way to start the season right. Rather that sitting on the couch in our comfy Christmas pj's (which is great too) we instead dressed in our best and made a big night out of it.

Leave me one comment below before 8am tomorrow and you'll be entered to win in today's contest. Please be as specific as you like, as I know many of us find inspiration for our knitting and our lives in what you share. Want to know more about the 12 Days of Sock Yarn? See here.

Comments

[Jessica Macon]

"So This is Christmas" by the Beatles, and of course, the best Christmas movie of them all, Die Hard!

[Becky Gray]

Has to be Harry Connick Jr singing Sleigh Ride.🎄⛄️🎄

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[Triplesss]

When my children were young, my sister recorded “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” for them, and that is something I like to re-visit. It’s a lovely reminder of how jaded we are about the true meaning of the season.

[Deborah M]

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I sing it in the car all year long but extra special at Christmas

[Mari]

For me, it’s the Nutcracker ballet, any version. He Sugar Plum fairy music is the essence of the holiday!

[Nathanne Verner]

Christmas Vacation is my favorite. Clark's crazy Christmas lights, and Cousin Eddie's down home ideas always make me laugh no matter how many times I watch it.

[Joan]

Miracle on 34th Street!

[Marianna]

Nothing in particular. But my husband turns on a few minutes of the Hallmark channel every night.....

[Carolyn Zewe]

I don’t have a specific Christmas song or movie that puts me in the mood. My favorites are A Christmas Story & Charlie Brown Christmas. A few of my favorite Christmas songs are The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole & White Christmas by Bing Crosby. I also listen to a lot of Celtic/Irish/Scottish Christmas music.

[Jeri Jahns]

I love watching the sappy Christmas Lifetime and Hallmark type romantic comedies with my daughter. One that is really good that we like is the Mistletones!

[Nathanne Verner]

I love the old English Christmas Carols when the professional choirs sing them. They really pick up my spirits for the holidays.

[Alice Wagers]

For music, it's all about the John Rutter Christmas Album for me.

My movie is the Muppet Family Christmas. Not the badly edited version available on DVD, but the VHS we recorded off the TV almost 30 years ago

[Bonnie]

I enjoy watching "The Shop Around the Corner."
I love the "old world" setting of the film as well as the message of the story.
Peace and Joy and continued success with your yarn-y creativity.

[Deborah Pogue]

I always play Christmas music while decorating my tree and home.

[Brenda Kelley]

The song, “it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” always does it for me!

[Loribird]

Charlie Brown Christmas, because it's such a classic and seems to be the first holiday film I see every year, and the original Grinch Who Stole Christmas is a close second place!

[Barb]

White Christmas or Meet Me in St Louis... both are my Christmas movies

[Libba Hicks]

Getting the tree up and decorated and then sitting in the room with all lights off except those on the tree and music playing, any Christmas music

[Susan Blair]

Any Hallmark Christmas movie! Even though they are predictable and sappy, they make me happy and hopeful.

[Beverly J. Killick]

Ok, are you really going to read, each and everyone of your messages?

The numbers every day should make you feel proud what you have NOW, rather than what you had at the beginning.

Congratulations, young lady!

[Jackielemon]

We have a whole slew of Christmas movies that we watch starting with "Miracle on 34th Street" on Thanksgiving. And it wouldn't be Christmas without Perry Como's Christmas album as the first to be played.

[Danielle Sime]

Arthur Christmas! And I want his sweater!

And I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas by Gayla Percy

[Wendy Chase]

It's A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol. Josh Groban's Noel album is my all time favorite Christmas music.

[Kim Q]

It’s non-stop Christmas movies on the Hallmark Channel in my House! I love the Home Alone movies, I haven’t seen those yet.

[Lisa]

Our official start to the season is How the grinch stole Christmas but we are those crazy folks who run A Christmas Story for 24 hours straight on Christmas Day !

For songs...I’m a sucker for Mariah Carey’s all I want for Xmas is you... blasting it every time it comes on the radio 🎶

[EMILY GARRISON]

Silver Bells! Hearing it any time of year gives me that Christmassy feeling.

[Larissa]

A Christmas Story - gets me every time!

[Teresa Olson]

The song Silent Night. Our city’s dance studio teaches the girls a sign language dance, I love the excitement of my 8 year old when she hears that song.

[Maura Lindbergh]

Has to be the Grinch!

[Jackie Cauthron-Schafer]

I also love “White Christmas”, but I prefer singing Christmas songs in July.

[Danita]

The movie that makes me smile the most every year is The Santa Claus. My kids like The Hogfather movie based on Terry Pratchetts book.

[linda]

My Christmas song for cheer is Silver Bells

[Deb Coy]

I love The Night they saved Chriatmas, and signing of silent night on Christmas Eve by candlelight.

[Julie]

Movie is a tie between elf and the original of the grinch who stole Christmas. Songs hark the Herald angels sing OR anything off of George Winston's Winter album.

[Kimberly Schutt]

I grew up listening to Mannheim Steamroller’s Christmas album while setting up the tree and throughout the season.

[Lynn Stucker]

I love our church candlelight service on Christmas Eve. All of my family goes and my momma is so happy!!

[Jenn H]

White christmas. My great grandma used to sing it all the time and it just makes me happy to remember her through it!

[Susan Eberhardt]

O Holy Night, This one song sums up Christmas for me.

[Suzanne]

I have to watch The Grinch and then the Hallmark channel Christmas movies, favorite one of those is Christmas under Wraps (think that is the name). Songs are And So This is Christmas is a favorite. I will admit that Dominick The Donkey put a smile on my face driving home from work recently.

[Dana Attwood]

I like to go out as a family driving around at night looking at Christmas lights and listening (singing) Christmas music.

[Karin Cook]

Charlie Brown Christmas & original The Grinch start the season off, and end the year watching several Of the Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers. Happy Holidays!

[Laurie]

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer always puts me in the mood for Christmas!

[Katie Dewees]

I love Harry Potter. I am a giant grinch, but when Harry opens his present and gets an H sweater I melt every time.
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[Meredith Kratochvil]

My 4 kids and I love to watch Elf! We all laugh out loud. Old favorites like frosty the snowman and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer are still staples though!

[Karen Murphy]

I love to hear Joy to the World. That song fills me with Christmas spirit.

[Patsy Coats]

I'll be home for Christmas if only in my dreams...love this song and all Christmas music.

[Jennie]

Yes, you already guessed it: Christmas Vacation! I really need a reindeer mug for my eggnog.

[Meghan]

The original Grinch movie, Charlie Brown, the old Rudolph the red nose reindeer. Those are throwbacks to my childhood. Now we always watch White Christmas while putting up our tree.

[Dawn]

Any song by Burl Ives. There is just something about all his songs and the nostalgia they bring...a trip down memory lane...

[Sarah]

I enjoy Christmas movies, Hallmark channel Christmas romances and all kinds of Christmas music from the sassy to the sacred. It's hard to choose the one that signals Christmas but I do really like Joan Baez's Noel album/cd. The song selection, her beautiful soprano and the instrumental accompaniment make it a favorite of mine.

[SouthernGal]

Listening to the Nutcracker ballet and seeing it live at NYCB but the tickets are expensive so haven’t been in a few years. Watching it’s a wonderful life. Never fails to make me examine my life and come up short compared to those in the movie

[Mary Harting]

It's Christmas when I hear the song Mary did you know.

[Kim White]

I love the song Baby it’s Cold Outside.

[Kat]

A Christmas Story and Rudolph there Red Nosed Reindeer.

[Brenda Souders]

Christmas Story is always a must watch for Christmas entertainment

[darcy coffel]

I always watch Charlie Brown Christmas! I even bought the DVD for I would not miss it!

[Claudia Hopkins]

My husband and I always watch The Polar Express every Christmas Eve. It is definitely one of our favorite movies of the season.

[Deb Monnin]

Listening to any of the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums always puts me in the holiday spirit

[Sara]

It's not Christmas until we sing "Oh Come all Ye Faithful."

[Nancy]

It’s always been the movie White Christmas for me also! I’ve seen the musical, but still love the movie best!

[Jann Johanson]

Definitely White Christmas, also love the Bishop’s Wife, the original with Cary Grant.

[Brooke Breitholme]

I watch A Charlie Brown Christmas, first thing!

[Beth McMullan]

Penatonix Christmas special

[Cindy Rittmer]

I love the song “Mary Did You Know”

[Louann]

The Christmas Story. ...White Christmas.....the season is to short for all of the great Christmas movies......

[Rose Birchall]

The Christmas Song or Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire is my favorite.

[Megan B]

Nightmare before Christmas, reminds us to be true to ourselves and our passion

[Jana Ames]

A Charlie Brown Christmas

[Paula Newman]

Love to listen to older traditional Christmas music. Bing Crosby. Johnny Mathis. The Beach Boys.

[Joneice]

Any Hallmark Christmas movie!

[Christina Smith]

White Christmas and Home Alone are must see movies. I listen to the chipmunks Christmas while decorating the tree and the season isn't complete without listening to Rutter's Christmas star CD.

[Ann Lally]

You know, it’s an oldie but a goodie... A Christmas Story always puts me in a holiday mood. Merry Christmas!!

[Shawn sweeney]

I love Elf - "I love smiling. Smiling is my favorite"

[Wendy Guindon]

It's a Wonderful Life is my all time favorite movie! The first time we watched it with my two daughters, they thought something was wrong with the tv because the show was in black and white!!

[Heather Mallady]

My daughter and I love the song Last Christmas to put us in a holiday mood.

[Kiltbabe64]

ELF for sure.....always makes me smile

[Sue]

I love the original Miracle on 34th Street. Natalie Wood was so cute and I just love Maureen O’Hara. She’s one of my all time favorite actresses.

[Susan]

12 days of Christmas

[Jalinn]

My favorite Christmas album is Jimmy Buffet's Christmas Island. Favorite show is the animated Grinch!!

[Leslie]

Elf & Love, Actually! One year, our health club showed Christmas movies all of December! I walked more treadmill hours that year then I had before or have since! Wish they'd do it again!

[Mary Fox]

The original Miracle on 34th street; Gelsey Kirkland and Baryshnikov in Nutcracker; and...
Never can decide which is the best Scrooge!

[Amanda]

Definitely the movie A Christmas Story. So much to relate to, and our whole family loves it! We also enjoy listening to the holiday music from Straight No Chaser. Their music is fantastic and hilarious!

[Arianne]

Rocking Around the Christmas Tree!

[Kelly Jun]

My daughter and I discovered Hallmark Christmas movies last year - watching them again this December. We are addicted!

[Alecia Helton]

It’s A Wonderful Life and White Christmas.

[Vivian Johnson]

Hands down - A wonderful life and a white Christmas

[Jill]

I have to watch National Lampoons Christmas Vacation every year or it's not Christmas! Funniest Christmas movie of all time!

[Rose]

White Christmas, How the Grinch stole Christmas (cartoon version).

[Donna]

My daughters like the White Christmas movie &so lkke it a lot but I prefer Holiday Inn which is the movie that introduced the song White Christmas. As for music, you can't beat the old classics. I love the Bing Crosby Christmas album.

[Karen]

I simply love the song “Mary, Did You Know?” by the Pentatonix. I could listen to it on repeat for a long time. If not that, anything Christmas themed by the Trans Siberian Orchestra!

[Elizabeth]

Agree with another poster "I have to watch "The Grinch" every year...the original cartoon version."
Also, White Christmas and Love Actually.

[Ellen Kucharik]

It's a Wonderful Life!

[Judy Offen]

So many favorite Christmas movies but "It's a Wonderful Life" is my number one. Listening to Christmas music ("Mary Did You Know" my fav) and baking family favorite Christmas cookies and my Grandmother's Austrian braided bread--all put me in the Christmas spirit!

[Audra]

Christmas Vacation is viewed weekly at our house this time of year.

[SarahP]

My favourite holiday music is Christmas Eve and Other Stories by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Turn it up, sing along and be moved by the story.

[Karen G.]

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and It's a Wonderful Life.

[Linda Bazinet]

We do a carol sing-a-long at church.
O Little Town of Bethlehem is one of my favorites.

I also love The Grinch (animated versuon).

[Robin V]

We always watch "It's a Wonderful Life," and "A Christmas Carol" (with George C Scott). For music, it's hard to say, but Handel's "Messiah would be near the top.

[Tabitha Burks]

There are so many little ways that I love to start off the Christmas season! However, my personal favorites are to watch the movie Polar Express and/or to start listening to the soundtrack to the Polar Express film and other classic Christmas music!

[Katherine]

Trans Siberian Orchestra is my favorite. I first heard them at a Zoo lights event and now they always brighten my holidays.