movie a few times since Veggie Tales sponsored my trip to Relevant. (I still can’t stop laughing every time I think of that If You Give a Blogger a Drum video.) We even had an interview about Little Drummer Boy with Mike Nawrocki, co-founder of Veggie Tales and voice of Larry the Cucumber. But I still haven’t given you a review of the movie yet!
With Thanksgiving as the doorway to Christmas, I thought you might like to grab this DVD to watch on Black Friday (because I know you’ll be at home buying Truth in the Tinsel instead of running through the mall, right?) and get your Christmas holiday started off right!
As Pa Grape tells the story, we see the connections between Junior’s bad attitude and the Little Drummer Boy, Aaron. And here’s where the sensitive alert comes in: Aaron’s house is burnt down by the Romans and his parents gone! (After my brother’s house fire this year, that scene hit close to home.) So, Aaron has a bad attitude towards…everyone!
When Aaron stumbles upon baby Jesus in the manger, I thought for a second that baby Jesus was about to heal the lamb. (Now that would have been something for Veggie Tales, huh?) Instead, Aaron’s parents return and the family is reunited. (Which heals that hard part about the fire from the beginning!)
Aaron learns to have love and forgiveness for those that hurt him. And of course, Junior, listening to the story does, too.
My very favorite part is at the very end when Aaron and his parents are reunited. They are standing in front of baby Jesus and Aaron’s mother says, “God has drawn us back together again.” And I know she’s talking about her family, but I think it was written to remind us that Jesus was born to draw us back to our Heavenly Father! The story of the Little Drummer Boy is actually the story of us! We were lost in our sins and while we were still sinners, Jesus came for us, died for us and loved us! He drew us back to him! Merry Christmas, indeed!
So, yes. I loved Little Drummer Boy! It needs to be in your Christmas classics rotation. In fact, I loved it so much, I’m thinking about a Little Drummer Boy Party! Check out my fun ideas!
Veggie Tales sponsored by trip to Relevant & gave me this DVD and CD in order to post about it. Opinions and text are mine.
I love so many Christmas songs. I love to sing “The First Noel” and I sing “Silent Night” year round as a lullaby.
Wow I have lots of favorite Christmas songs! O Holy Night, Away in the Manger plus the whold Casting. Crowns Peace on earth!
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My fav is a choral song – “This little babe.” It’s a beautiful song, and the words are amazing… “This little baby, a few days old, has come to rifle Satan’s fold!”
Silent night is my favorite.
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One of my favorites is O Holy Night.
O Holy Night has always been my favorite.
I love O Come All Ye Faithful!
So many so gs to love but my favorite is silent night.
My favorite Christmas Carol is “Silent Night”! Happy Thanksgiving!
I like the new one by Down Here- How Many Kings?
Great giveaway! My favorite Christmas song is Hallelujah Chorus!!!
Favorite Christmas song would have to be What child is this!
Oh Holy Night is my all time favorite Christmas song.
It is a song in Sufjan Stevens Christmas album, but it is more of a hymn: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. So beautiful!
My favorite of all time is
O Come O Come Emmanuel.
my favorite Christmas songs are Silent Night and Mary Did You Know 🙂 thanks A!
Ooh, how do I pick one favorite?? I’ve always loved Green Sleeves/What Child is This. O Holy Night, Silent Night.
Fave Veggie Tales Christmas song: O Santa. 🙂
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My favorite Christmas song has got to be O Holy Night…always brings chills. But for sure a second runner up is Silent Night. I sing that to my daughter every time I put her to bed…Christmas or not!
Happy Thanksgiving! My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night and It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! I also love to listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas cd!
I get goosebumps when I sing “Silent Night.” Definitely my favorite!
I think I love Bob and Larry more than my kids!
O Holy Night is my favorite!
My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night!
Singing “O Come, All Ye Faithful” brings a sense of purpose and power in the celebration of our Savior’s birth – always warms my heart and sings, “yes, this is Christmas!” to me.
So many to choose from! I love the old hymn “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and “I Believe” by Natalie Grant!
I love God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman. And I love Veggie Tales!
I enjoy all Christmas songs, but lately I guess my number one pick would be Silent Night.
There are SO many! Christ with Us is beautiful.
I love do you hear what I hear.
O Holy Night is my favorite song for the Christmas season!
My favorite Christmas song would have to be “It’s Christmas Time” by the various artists on the City on a Hill Christmas CD. Love it!
O Holy Night (though the silly kid song “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas” just came to mind because it makes me laugh)
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So many Christmas son I love.. it’s very hard to pick one. Top two would be O Holy Night and I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (on Casting Crowns’ CD). Happy Thanksgiving!
I love Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel! It tells the whole Gospel story and is so pretty.
I love all Christmas songs, but I’m really feeling “O Little Town of Bethlehem” right now, thanks to Tyndale’s “Journey to Christmas” series.
I love the song “Joy To The World.”
My long time favorite has been “What Child is This.” Now it may be “Away in a Manger” because I love hearing my 3 and 5 year old sing it.
Anewer favorite: Hallelujah, Light Has Come by BarlowGirl
Thise year…I’ll be Home for Christmas. Since we had a surprise homecoming from our family who serve as missionsaries in Africa 🙂
My favorite Christmas song is Mary did you know?
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Great post! My fave Xmas song is “The first Noel”.
Such an inspiring story. Might as well share this one to my kids. I’m sure they will be able to learn a thing or to do from this. Advance Merry Christmas to you.
I don’t really have a favorite Christmas carol, but favorite Christmas CD is Amy Grant’s. We put it on every year and listen to it as we decorate our tree and house the day after Thanksgiving and then all season long.
My favorite Christmas song is What Child Is This. 😀
I love Joy to the World. It amazes when I read closely the words of Christmas songs. So many of them are such amazing awe-filled meditations on Christ’s advent.
Im going to go with O Holy Night!
Oh Holy Night!
My favorite Christmas song this year is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. My 2-year-old, Jack, loves to belt it out with me over and over in the car, and when I try to stop for breath he chants, “Sing it again, Mommy! Sing it with me!”
Mine changes every year, usually O Holy Night or It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. This year, however, my son chose it for me: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. He loves belting it out in the car with me at the top of our lungs. Whenever I try to rest and catch my breath, the imp starts sing-songing, “Sing it again, Mommy! Sing it with me!” I should be so sick of it by now, but every time I see toothy grin, I can’t help but love it.
Hmmm, my comment wouldn’t show up earlier, so I thought I was going to have to rewrite it. As you can see, the more I do something, the more I embellish it! Well, now you have two copies of my comment. Wish I could delete one somehow, because now I feel so silly!