Thirsty for more vacation customs? Catherine O’Hara has actually got a couple of– none of which include unintentionally leaving your 8-year-old to take care of himself.
For beginners, “there’s movies that I have to watch every Christmas,” the Schitt’s Creek alum and Home Alone mother shown E! News in 2015. On her list: Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire‘s 1942 timeless Holiday Inn, which presented the world to Irving Berlin‘s “White Christmas,” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, It’s a Wonderful Life and, yes, Home Alone, of which she joked, “Oh yeah, have to force my kids to watch that.”
But absolutely nothing states Merry Christmas, you dirty animal rather like the practice she’s rollovered from her years maturing in Toronto as the sixth of 7 kids. “My dad would go outside the house and pretend to be Santa,” O’Hara described. “They would buy pajamas and my mom would go in the bedroom and say, ‘Oh, Santa’s here.'”
