Holiday Countdown: 43 Days! Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - I'll Be Home With Bells On and Christmas With The Kranks

Seems to be a bit of a theme at this point of the playlist. Going home.

I grew up listening to Kenny Rogers. Was a favourite tape we had. I had a Kenny Rogers Christmas album too. I decided not to include him on my playlist but at least I have him on here with Dolly. My father also had a tape that had Jolene and Coat of Many Colours on it.

Ah first records then tapes haha...boy I'm dating myself. I still actually use tapes. I have 5 Christmas cassettes, one of which has Kenny's album.

Now I'm remembering road trips with my parents when I was young. Was a fun time, brought me out of the dumps which was a naturally common place for me to be. Music...music of any kind, especially when paired with these memories saved me from losing my mind.

And it's movie time again! We were planning on watching Christmas With The Kranks first. Another favourite. Tried to put it on the dvd player yesterday. But it wouldn't work. We couldn't figure out why the input feature wasn't working. I suspected that the wire just came out because we could get sound, but no picture. I just didn't want to mess things up by going behind the machines. So the husband did it today. Because I was right haha.

Anyway here is the trailer for it:

Spotify: Gnat's Christmas/Holiday Faves

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