"A Bramble House Christmas"

"A Bramble House Christmas" is part of the  Hallmark Miracles of Christmas movie series.  I ordered many Christmas movies before last Christmas from my local library and was 70 something on the waiting list so they're all arriving now that Christmas is over.  However, having a daughter and adult granddaughter that celebrate Christmas all year long makes it fitting we should watch Christmas movies all year long and that's according to my spouse who used to be Mr. Bah-humbug at Christmas!

"A Bramble House Christmas" is the story of Willa, a young divorced woman with a grade school age son without a father in the picture.  She's been nursing a dying man until he passed away recently and, when she's left $100,000 and a Christmas vacation at Bramble House in Oregon with her son, the estranged daughter and son of the man she nursed decide she's a gold digger who conned their father into leaving her the money.

Finn, the son, decides to travel from Seattle to confront her and serve her with an injunction that holds up her inheritance until a full investigation is held.  As is usual in Hallmark movies, plans don't always go smoothly and plans change.  When Finn arrives at Bramble House, he doesn't have the chance to tell Willa immediately who he is and why is there.  As he gets to know her and her son and see the caring person that she is and her power to impact positively the lives around her, he realizes she is not the gold digger that he thought she was and there is a powerful reason his father left her the money.

That would be a good place to end the movie but, of course, there has to be some twists and turns before romance blossoms.  It's an uplifting story!  pazt