Nothing says Christmas season to me more than cuddling up under a warm blanket with a mug of hot chocolate and watching a holiday romantic movie. Unfortunately, I don’t have cable so I can’t binge-watch the Hallmark Channel. But luckily for me, the library owns a lot of the movies. To find the whole list just put “Hallmark Channel holiday collection” in the search bar.
I wanted to highlight a few of these themed movies for you. It is not Christmas at my house until all the family sits down and watches Almost Christmas together. This romantic comedy is about a crazy family and all their quirks but the romance centers around one of the daughters and the next door neighbor’s son.
A Gingerbread Romance and A Very Merry Mix Up are both movies that were made for the Hallmark Channel. You can check them out as DVDs from the library. A 
Gingerbread Romance brings in my love of going and seeing the Gingerbread House designed by the different architectural firms in Seattle at the Sheraton every year, which has unfortunately been canceled this year due to Covid-19. This main character is an architect and the baker they hired to make the gingerbread house for the firm backed out at the last minute. She meets a cute baker in a small bakery and tries to talk him into making the gingerbread house for her. A Very Merry Mix Up is about a woman who is going out to meet her future 
in-laws for the first time. She is traveling ahead of her fiance, but her luggage gets lost in route and then her phone breaks, so she has no way of connecting with them. At the luggage claim she meets her future brother-in-law so she is able to get a ride back to the parent’s house with him.
If streaming is more what you were hoping for Hoopla has a great selection of romantic holiday movies. Christmas Hotel a hotel manager wants to climb her way up the corporate ladder. In order to
do this the chain sends her to her hometown that opposes having the hotel chain there. The biggest opponent to it is her childhood crush. Christmas Belles two best friends who have been bugged about getting married. Meet the cute new pastor and both decide to go after him.
Unfortunately the movies that are available from the DVDs and Hoopla are centering on Christmas and hetrosexual couples, but I am seeing a change in what is being aired this year so hopefully next year at this time I can write about a more diverse range of holiday films.
~ Posted by Pam H.
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