While You Were Sleeping

Happy New Year! While most people usually spend their New Year's Eve drinking and partying or at a friend's home eating and watching the ball drop, my family and I enjoy a simpler celebration. Most times we have an early dinner and relax at home with a cup of coffee and a movie. This year it was Leap Year. I never get tired of that one. It is one of the few modern movies I always enjoy repeating.
One of my favorite holiday (or really anytime) movies is While You Were Sleeping starring Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman. I watch this movie Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentines Day, Groundhog Day, President's Day, whatever the heck day it is, it can always be a While You Were Sleeping Day. I love Sandra Bullock in most anything she does but I think While You Were Sleeping was one of her finest works.

 If you have never seen this movie, it is about a woman without any family facing yet another holiday alone. Because of a complete misunderstanding she is thrown into a big, dysfunctional-but-lovable family. Through these loving people she finds happiness and, in the end, she gets what she has longed for. A family. The story is so charming and it simply never gets old. I watch it every Christmas and about 112 times throughout the rest of the year. You can't get much better than snowy Chicago, crazy family antics, Sandra Bullock, and Bill Pullman  (in the one movie where he was actually pretty cute).

So grab some popcorn and a bag of m&ms and have a happy new year with While You Were Sleeping.

Fondly,
J.H.