I’m sure there are countless others with this tradition, but my wife and I can’t go through the holiday season without watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation at least once. Every Christmas for the past 13 years, we’ve sat down by the fireplace (save for the two years we didn’t have one at our old house), popped in that trusty Blu-ray copy, and watched Clark Griswold lose his everloving mind.
With my parents in town for a few days, we decided to all sit down and watch the best of the Vacation series as a family. I mean all of us: my parents, my wife, my three kids, my two dogs, my in-laws’ dog, who’s currently staying with us, my two cats, and a goldfish in a cloudy tank. Like Cousin Eddy’s “shitter,” the house was full. Full of people, full of pets, full of chaos!
