I know this blog is sorely neglected. Usually I’m way too busy with life to find time to write about things. After all, 2020 was the year my daughter graduated high school, competed in her last dance competition, performed in her last dance recital, and went off to college. Well, they would have been things she would have done if the world wasn’t ravaged by a pandemic. (Thankfully, she was able to live on-campus at college for awhile. The school did shut down in-person classes early though.) So instead of work and hobbies and life and everything, it was depression that got me. I was very sad thinking of all of the things that everyone lost this year - both lives lost and milestones missed. 2020 has been awful.

So that brings me to this year’s Christmas movies. I usually review one movie per day from December 1 through December 25. An advent calendar, if you will. Well, this year, I’m going to challenge myself to tackle all 71 new Christmas movies brought to us by Hallmark, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (why do they need 2 channels?!), Lifetime, Netflix, and Hulu. Yes, Hulu has joined the fray this year.

What does this mean for you? It means that the movie reviews will extend past Christmas Day this year and some days will have multiple reviews. If I start tomorrow, I will have 43 days to watch 71 movies. That will end this challenge on New Year’s Eve. If, for some reason, I can’t get all of the reviews in by New Year’s Eve, they’ll just have to start out 2021. I am absolutely determined to watch all 71 of these movies. No matter how terrible they are.

Please join me on this Jolly Journey of Christmas Joy - Pandemic Edition. Maybe we’ll be pleasantly surprised and some of these will actually be good this year.