I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm 45 years old and yesterday was the first time I have ever watched It's A Wonderful Life. I had scene bits and clips.
Growing up my family didn't have a lot of traditions so it was never a big deal in our house to make sure we watch certain Christmas movies every year. So no It's a Wonderful Life.
Now that I'm a dad I make sure we have traditions for the holiday season. Many around movies but also other things that we do.
Just because we had a handle on most things yesterday we sat down and watched it. We were gonna watch White Christmas but decided to do this one instead.
I loved every bit of it. The movie moved me.
It's now a family tradition.
I was sitting next to my daughter on the couch at the end and started tearing up at the end.
She looked over at me and said "are you crying". I said "a little bit" and she said " you're so weird dad"
So I've got that going for me, which is nice.