Those closest to me know how much this time of year means to me. So many memories are wrapped up in how I celebrate, remember my mom, and forge ahead creating new traditions with my own family.
Funny how things change as your kids get older. Now that my kiddo is a tween (eeek!), one of the best parts of the holiday season is just spending time together. For us that includes balancing holiday getaways and time at home with some hot cocoa, a great blanket, and tuning into Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas. It’s totally age appropriate for her and every movie gets us into the spirit of Christmas. I wait for this all year long. This year there’s even more excitement as it’s Hallmark Channel’s 10th Anniversary Countdown to Christmas and we are celebrating at home and here on the blog, thanks to this sponsored post.
In this post:
- All you need to know about Countdown to Christmas schedule
- Scoop on this Sunday’s Hallmark Channel movie premiere, “Christmas Scavenger Hunt” – Sunday, Nov. 3rd at 8pm/7c
- Giveaway on Hallmark website: 41 Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments and a Beautiful Balsam Hill Christmas Tree
- Giveaway here at FINDING DEBRA: Visa gift card and Hallmark holiday items
- New, updated Hallmark Channel Advent Calendar PRINTABLE (a big hit last year when I premiered it)
Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas – 10th Anniversary SCOOP
Hallmark Channel is THE destination for all things holiday related and this year it’s better than ever.
- (24) twenty-four original movies on Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas AND
- (16) sixteen original movies on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Miracles of Christmas
That’s 40 original movies! I’m ready to get started this weekend.
“Christmas Scavenger Hunt” – Sunday, Nov. 3rd at 8pm/7c
Let’s take a quick peek at this weekend’s “Christmas Scavenger Hunt”:
Plot: When Belinda (Kim Shaw) heads back to her hometown for the holidays, things get complicated when she is forced to team up with her ex, Dustin (McGarry), at the town’s annual Christmas scavenger hunt.
That gets me excited, and let me add some additional fun we can tune into. Mark your calendars:
- 5 nights of Thanksgiving AND
- 12 days to Christmas
You can check out all 40 holiday movies all season long on Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas (here) and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Miracles of Christmas (here)!
Hallmark Channel Site Giveaway
If you’ve been watching the holiday movies like I have already, you might have noticed some beautiful Balsam Hill products sprinkled in here and there. Hallmark Channel not only has a great giveaway here on my blog (scroll down below), but I want to make sure you go enter an amazing giveaway on their site as well. The prize: a collection of 41 Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments and a Beautiful Balsam Hill Christmas Tree! Enter here –> Keepsake Ornament Giveaway.
Hallmark Channel Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendar (Printable for 2019)
Get ready. Back by popular demand is my DIY Hallmark Channel Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendar! This one has a sweet treat at every turn!
Epic Hallmark Channel 10 Years of Countdown to Christmas Giveaway
The holidays just wouldn’t be the same without Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas. Ten years is a big milestone and I look forward to the next ten, and the ten after that. It’s one holiday tradition I won’t give up.
To celebrate, Hallmark has generously provided one epic giveaway package for one of my lucky readers.
PRIZING:
(1) Holiday Moments Package includes:
- (1) $25 Visa Gift Card
- (1) Hallmark Wrapping Paper Gift Set – while this may look different than last year’s gift set, you can get an idea of what they sent the winners last year .
- (1) The Republic of Tea Tea pack
- (1) Wooden Christmas Countdown Calendar
- (1) Vintage Truck and Christmas Tree Salt & Pepper Shakers Set
Now let’s go enjoy some holiday fun while kicking off Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas!
The holidays means spending time with loved ones. I am very excited about the Countdown to Christmas… it sounds great.
Holidays are a great time to reflect on Christ, others and family.
The holidays mean spending time with friends and family and I am very excited for all the hallmark movies.
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celebrating with family
Holidays to us means family! We love getting together with family during the holidays. My wife and I are super excited for Countdown to Christmas! We love getting home from work, and spend the evening watching! We love it!
Holidays mean celebrations and I’m so excited about the countdown.
The holidays mean family. 🙂
The holidays are about being with family nd also upholding some of the traditions that you were brought up with. The way we celebrate Christmas is generally universal by household, but we all have little things that we did differently when we grew up.
For me, the holidays are all about spending tine with family! I love watching Christmas movies together!
Family and music and special church services
The holidays are a time to be thankful for my family and reflect on the past year. I’m really excited about the countdown to Christmas.
Christmas is very special to me, I have a lot of really wonderful memories from my childhood with christmas. My birthday is within the same week as christmas, so I would always get extra excited. I love everything about christmas! The lights, the snow, the cozy blankets and heavy sweaters. I love waking up on christmas and opening presents, and now that im a parent I love it even more! The look in my kids’ eyes when they wake up, it really warms my heart.
Holiday time means I get to see family, that I only see this time of year. Of course, I am excited!
The holidays are all about family and spending time together.
I am so excited to see all the new Hallmark movies! My tv is set to Hallmark all day!
Christmas is a great time for me. I love the movies and the music. Everyone seems happier too.
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Holidays make me think of family and I love spending extra time with them.
The holidays mean time with family, filled with food, laughter, and love. We celebrate the perfect gift of love, Jesus!
Always been a fan of the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movies. Makes me appreciate the simpler things in life.
We don’t do much for the holidays – all of our family lives in other states, so it’s just the 2 of us. We enjoy our quiet holidays that don’t include rushing places and family drama. Love relaxing with the Hallmark movies though!
Holidays are when friends and family share that special day together and I love Christmas countdown!
Holidays mean family and I love the hallmark Christmas movies.
The holidays are a great time to see family and friends you don’t get to see often during the year. Definitely excited for the countdown.
I love being with family during the holidays and Hallmark movies are my favorite.
Christmas, for me, means family. As everyone has raised their own families, it means even more for us to be together.
Spending time with family and relaxation after a long busy stressful year.
Spending time with family and friends. I am very excited!
I love the holidays its a time for enjoying family and friends love them
Christmas means spending time with my family. I am excited about the countdown to Christmas
Holidays are an exciting time to spend with friends and family! I love the countdown to Christmas, I love watching Christmas movies, drinking hot cocoa and wrapping presents! I am going to start gift wrapping soon!!
Holidays mean getting to spend time with my family,especially my grand kids! Watching those faces as they open their gifts! I also like to make home made cookies and jams to give out!
Holidays mean celebrating with family. I’m so excited about the countdown
Holidays are spent with family and friends. It is wonderful to celebrate the past down traditions from the previous generations and the memories.
I love the count down to Christmas on Hallmark. If I am not home when a new one airs I make sure I DVR it.
The holidays are the busiest times ever for me.. I volunteer for the homeless, and seeing them smiling, tummies full, with sparkles in their eyes, is LIFE! Seeing the children with new toys and the adults with heavy coats, socks, toiletries.. Ahhhhh it’s my favorite time of year!
I love to look for new fun ornaments and doing holiday baking.
The holidays are special to me because we always come together as a family to celebrate. Relatives we don’t see often, if at all through the year, are reunited. I’m excited this year to spend it with my 5 year old granddaughter. She’s the perfect age to experience the joy and magic of the holidays.
I love the holidays…..it means family and friends and food and good times. I also usually help out with Toys for Tots Depot every year….and its such a wonderful experience.
Love Hallmark and Countdown to Christmas. My sister and I watched a Christmas movie together tonight!
I love the holidays. It is a time when family and friends get together and spend quality time with each other. Strangers are just a little bit nicer and Christmas cheer is everywhere. I love the Christmas countdown on Hallmark and have already started watching it.
It means to me that I finally get to see far-away family.
Very excited for Countdown to Christmas. This time of year is always exciting. Seeing family is the best part of course. But I decorating, trimming the tree, wrapping gifts, and everything else done at Christmastime.
Christmas to me means celebrating the birth of Christ. I love spending time with my family. It’s important to make new memories. My granddaughter is 5 yrs old and it’s great to see her eyes light up with all the decorations & presents. Thank you for the awesome giveaway.
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I love the holidays! It means spending lots of time with the family.
The holidays mean spending time with my kids. I love decorating for Christmas and watching my kids excitement.
I do love the holidays and can’t wait to spend Christmas with my family. We celebrate with pjs and games, movies of the holiday on all day and doing crafts as well as baking delicious treats.
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I love cutting our Christmas tree down and decorating the house and baking cookies with the kids. I am excited for the countdown
Dinner with the otherwise far-flung family.
The holidays mean extra time to spend with my kids off work and keeping up with our family holiday traditions like buying special ornaments and baking cookies together.
I love the holidays because it’s all about making memories with family.
The holidays are for spending time with family and that’s what I love most! Can’t wait to sit with my family and enjoy all the Hallmark movies together!
I like getting to spend time with my kids and granddaughters. I always look forward to watching the Hallmark movies.
Of course, the holidays are allabo ut families and gatherings. I have already started watching the Hallmark holiday movies!
For me the Holidays are about family. I also look forward to the food!
The holidays are time for celebrating all the love and goodness we have in our lives, and for sharing those benefits with the less fortunate.
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I love the Countdown to the Christmas Hallmark Movies. It brings the warmth of the season into the house day after day and it brings happiness as we have the family gather.
Holiday are the best time to remember the reason for the season.
Very excited! Holidays means being with those you love and appreciating the reason for the season.
Holiday means spending time with family and eating good food.
The Holiday Season means lots of good food and special time with family. Thanks for the giveaway!
If my nieces and nephews come home for Christmas, the holidays mean a lot to me. If not, then I can’t get as excited. I really enjoy the Countdown to Christmas!!
The holidays mean spending time with family. I’ve never seen the Countdown to Christmas.
I love spending time with my family and seeing the joy in their faces as they open their presents. And I love love love countdown to Christmas!!
The holidays mean so much to me! Spending time with family is the best thing ever! Christmas is my favorite holiday so of course I’m excited! Can’t wait!
Some of my kids are older but get more time off during the holidays so it means spending more time with all of my kids. The countdown to christmas is cool if its only on the regular hallmark channels and not the mysteries channel
I love Christmas and all the activities leading up to it, the Nutcracker, seeing Santa with my kids, going to a Christmas tea.
I love the holidays! My mom and I plan special watch parties for Hallmark Christmas movies!!
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Christmas is a time for the whole family to get together and spend time. We have good food, good conversation, see what Santa brings but especially celebrate the birth of Jesus.
I love the holidays spending it with family. Can’t wait for the countdown to Christmas on Hallmark.
Holidays means everything to me and my family. We are so excited for the Christmas.
Christmas means friends and family together in harmony and reflecting on the meaning of the season. We always watch countdown to Christmas it is uplifting.
holidays mean catching up with family and potluck. I am excited for Christmas movies on hallmark.
The holidays mean being thankful and spending time with family that I don’t get to see very often. I’m very excited for Countdown to Christmas, the movies look great!
The holidays mean time with family. I’m excited about all the new Christmas movies!
I’m excited for Countdown! I love the holidays and anything related to the end of the year festivities. I love spending time with my family, and get into the holiday spirit.
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I love the holidays because it is the main amount of time that I get to spend with my family.
The holidays to me mean making memories with family and friends that we will never forget. And I can’t wait for all the hallmark movies.
The holidays mean that I get to go home to see my family, which doesn’t happen very often as I am finishing residency in a different state. I am definitely counting down
christmas means family time to me now all my kids are grown it is exciting to have everyone here,,and i love the countdown and all the hallmark movies
I’m so excited for the countdown – I love Hallmark Christmas. And the holidays, to me, is family, friends, giving, cozy, cheer.
-Lauren
The holidays mean Faith, Family, Fun, and Love to me.
I’m super excited for Countdown to Christmas! I love Hallmark Movies!
The holiday to me means family time. I am excited for the Hallmark Christmas movies.
I just love spending time with my family!
The holidays mean a special time to cherish Christ, family and friends. And also enjoy the countdown to Christmas on Hallmark!
The holidays mean time for catching up with family and friends and the Christmas Countdown makes that time even more special!
Spending time with my family during the holidays is the best! We are so excited about Countdown to Christmas!
I’m so excited for Countdown to Christmas! I just enjoy spending time with family and friends.
Holidays means getting together with my entire family.
The holidays afe SO special to me and my family! We spend a lot of time together during Christmas! Its always our time to get in touch and visit! I love HLALMARK MOVIES and love countdown to Christmas every year!!
It’s a time for happiness. I’m very excited!
Holidays are my favorite time of year because it brings everyone together! I’m already starting to decorate the house today and it’s only November 3!
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Holidays mean getting together with friends and family.
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Holidays are time to see family members you do not see often.
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The Holidays mean many things! It means decorating the tree with all of our memorable ornaments, celebrations with family and at church, celebrating our Savior’s birth, watching Christmas movies while drinking hot cocoa, and sending out Christmas cards in the mail.
The holidays mean spending time with family. I am super excited for the countdown to Christmas!
I look forward to the Christmas count down every year. I love Christmas and all the happiness people seem to have. Christmas to me is about remembering everything and everyone special to you and helping others.
I love the holidays! I can’t wait to put up our tree and decorations.
The holidays mean everything to me! 3 years ago over Thanksgiving we found out while serving overseas, I couldn’t have kids, it was the worst day of my life. Then, just before Christmas we got a message from friends at work, they had a relative that was considering giving up their little girl to adoption and they’d heard we were looking for a child. Things just seemed to happen without really trying. I can’t describe it. We hadn’t even really considered our options and there she was on our doorstep just a few weeks later! Sometimes things just are. So 3 years ago we got the greatest Christmas gift imaginable. Last year it was made official and we had our first family Christmas together. This year we are so looking forward to our second, this time she is 6 and understands what Christmas is about! It really is a magic season.
Brings tears to my eyes – so happy for you!
The holidays are family time. I’m excited because we can watch the shows together.
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The holidays mean more family time and great food! I am very excited for the great movie season!
The holidays mean celebrating the birth of Jesus and family. Thank you
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The holidays to me mean spending time with family.
The holidays mean everything to me. It’s the only chance we have each year to spend time together as a complete family!
I adore all the family time that comes with the holidays – but I also like to sneak away and watch Hallmark movies! (Since we don’t get the channel anymore, I am paying for the app!)
Holidays are time with family, a time to reflect and be grateful.
Countdown to Christmas is a fun way to unwind.
The Holidays mean extra family time to me. Time to make more good memories with loved ones.
Good luck everyone!
I look forward to making family memories around Christmas time.
I love the time with family and friends. Making new memories and just the fun of the entire season. It’s my favorite time of the year. I am super excited for Count Down to Christmas!!! Best time of the year.
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The holidays mean going home, quality time with family and friends, and living in the moment.
The holidays mean being with those you love family and friends. My daughter had
Cancer at 7 my son a heart transplant so being with them at Christmas each year we know how lucky we are that they are still with us here.
i look forward to being with family on the holidays
they mean celebrating Jesus! It means everything to me.
The holidays mean spending time with my family making cherished memories. They are a time of gratitude, love, joy, and celebration.
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To me they mean family time, and a time to think of others.
Holidays are special days during the year where we can relax and do some thing fun and different to break up the monotony of the daily grind. I’m really looking forward to Christmas and Thanksgiving this year.
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The holidays always mean spending time with family and friends, lots of laughter and love. <3 I love Hallmark Christmas stories, so I'm real excited about them.
i loo2k forward to quality family time.
The holidays for me is spending time with family and showing your appreciation to them! We love watching holiday movies together, we are stoked!
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The holidays have always been a magical and special time to me. I am looking forward to Countdown to Christmas!
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I am counting down till Christmas — I will get to see all of my family, which I don’t see that often.
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Christmas is always a wonderful time. This year will be extra special, as I get to see my youngest son (& meet his new wife) for the first time in a few years & before he is deployed overseas. Thanks!
This is our favorite time of year: friends, family, and joy! We are so excited about Countdown to Christmas!
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Holidays are about spending time with loved ones and generosity.
I’m so excited to watch Hallmark movies with my family this season. It’s the most wonderful time of year!!
The holidays have always made me want to be with family. There aren’t many of us so we do our best to put on a good show with decor, food and movies.
The holidays mean time with my family. And hopefully no fighting
I’m excited for the holidays to come to celebrate Jesus’ birth and spend time with family. I am also excited for the countdown to Christmas!
Since my niece came along, Christmas feels more like Christmas and I love buying her presents and can’t wait until Countdown to Christmas!
Christmas means family gatherings and I am super excited!!
I’ve always loved Christmas – the one time all my family get together, eat good foods, watch cozy films, hope for snow. It’s just perfect. I don’t have the Hallmark channel anymore, though, so I won’t be watching any of the movies 🙁
The holidays just make me feel like a kid again…gets me excited about life and I’m excited about the Countdown to Christmas – one of the best parts of the season!
I love Thanksgiving & Christmas. It is pretty much the only time that a lot of my family can get together and spend quality time together plus the food is amazing
Christmastime is about reconnecting with family. We’re all super excited to spend time together with the countdown!
I am very excited about the Christmas Countdown. Hallmark comes through every year with great movies. Christmas means that I get to spend time with my family in another state.
The holidays are about spending time with the family and reconnecting with our loved ones.
It means love,family, and jesus. i am very excited for Count Down to Christmas!
The holidays mean spending time with my family and baking yummy treats to share. I am so excited for the countdown!
To me the holidays is all about family and sharing the joy together. I am excited about Countdown to Christmas as all of the shows have a happy ever after ending. I also get a little weepy when I watch them.
For me, the holidays mean time off from work, relaxing and hanging out with friends and family.
The holidays mean family time for me! I love them and the count down has me super pumped.
i love celebrating with my family, it means special times together and making lasting memories
the holidays means tons of family time, its my favorite time of year and i am so excited to get in the spirit with the countdown to Christmas.
I’m super excited for Christmas!! I love everything about it.
Holidays are all about family. We’ve already started our countdown and set a date to make the Christmas tamales.
The lights, trees, music and food are my favorite times during holidays.
I’m excited for college freshman to be home for 5 weeks. Christmas to me is all about families
I love the holidays, family, food, decorating and Hallmark Movies signal the start of the holiday season.
The holidays is all about spending time with your loved ones. Enjoying every minute and making those special memories. Love the countdown to Christmas. Love Hallmark movies.
We love the holidays and the kids can’t wait till they get here.
The holidays means spending time with family. Doing traditions and making more memories. It is a time to spend time with family and be grateful and thankful for our love. It is a time to give to others and be present.
I love Chanukah! It’s such a beautiful holiday with lovely traditions and delicious food.
Love Family time watching Hallmark Christmas movies!Love
The holidays mean time with family and friends, annnnnd lots of great food. I am SUPER excited for countdown to christmas.
Love spending the holidays with family, and making memories. Excited about the countdown to christmas.
The holiday’s used to mean so much to me, but now the kids are grown and they’re branching out in all directions and I’m not even sure if I will get to see them. It takes the fun out of the holidays not knowing if you will be able to have your family together due to their jobs or whatever. I’m trying my best to get the spirit back and find a new normal.
Hugs Celeste…that’s got to be hard. When my mom passed away unexpectedly during the holidays, it was so hard (still is), but we too had to find a new normal.
The holidays for me mean spending time with family and friends. We are excited to spend time together and watch lots of Hallmark movies!
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To me the holidays are all about family time. I am very excited for the countdown to Christmas!
We like the holidays! We get to spend time together as a family! We are looking forward to the countdown!
I love spending time with my family during the holidays. Everyone makes an effort to get together, decorate, watch movies, and celebrate.
The holidays mean time to reflect on what exactly Christmas means. So many truly forget. Also I love spending time with the ones I love.
Hallmark movies are my favorite!
I love it all and time with the family.
Holidays are always family time for me 🙂 I don’t see my family much during the year so holidays are times when I see them 🙂
The holidays to me is about spending time with your loved ones.
The holidays is a time where it seems the world just slows down for just a bit. And family and friends with so much love that is always there just shines brightly.
I love the holidays, it’s such a festive, cozy times to spend with friends and family
The holidays are for family! I always get in such a happy mood when Christmas is coming!!Hallmark movies are my favorite to watch!
Christmas begins with Christ!
I’m super excited! I love the holidays and I especially love to start celebrating as early as possible!
The holidays mean seeing family and friends that I haven’t seen in a year. It means closeness and love! I love the countdown to Christmas, that really gets me in the spirit!
I’m loving the countdown to Christmas! The holidays mean family to me.
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Spending more time with my family and I’m looking forward to the Countdown to Christmas.
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The holidays are great for spending more time with family! I’m very excited about the Countdown to Christmas!