Countdown To Christmas 2024 Review: ‘Debbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle’

I don’t think that I have ever cried so hard from a Hallmark movie, but Debbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle, you delivered me all of the feelings that I didn’t know I needed, right when I needed them.

As a person that doesn’t really embraces their inner grinch, I expect for Christmas to be a lot for me. I expect to be overwhelmed and feel too much. I expect family fights and arguments. I expect everything to be wrong and for nothing to ever feel as though it is right for the holidays.

I expect these things and for there to be nothing but chaos and regret. Seeing the regret playing out on a television screen reminds me just how much I need to stop and think about the way that life evolves and that people do to.

But Debbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle also made me remember something else.

I need to take a moment to believe in miracles also.

Charlotte, Henry, and Benedict are siblings who can’t get along. Somewhere in life, the three stopped communicating and really listening to each other. The three of them all embraced different lives, especially after they went into business together and it didn’t work out.

Benedict moved to London. Henry seemed to embrace every unsavory character and owed the wise guys of New Jersey way too much money. Charlotte is a mother who stopped practicing law a long time ago and whose husband left just a year prior. All three are wrapped up in their own lives and they don’t realize the way that it has affected the lives that they are living.

Their biggest regret is that in the last year of their lives is that they weren’t there for their Grandmother, who recently passed away. They didn’t realize what she needed and didn’t pay attention, until they were drawn home by her passing.

But being drawn home may be just what they need in order to get themselves together and figure out the lives that they were meant to live, along with the love that they were meant to give.

The three can’t even be in a room together without an argument, but have until midnight on Christmas to make a choice of who will take over their Grandmother’s spot on the Board of Directors at their family company.

Coming home, Charlotte is also going to need to come face to face with the love that she left behind – Austin. He’s the executor of her Grandmothers will and has overlooked the horses at her Grandmothers house, since his father died.

Enter the estate planner – a whimsical woman filled with all of the joy in the world, the want to make everyone get along, and somehow has a hand in everything. She’s filled with more Christmas joy than most of us will ever have. Somehow she has an answer for everything and a purse that holds everything.

Seriously, her bag is like Mary Poppins bag. You don’t know what is coming out next.

Annie Merkel is an angel. She’s so busy being there for everyone else and reminding them of the meaning of family and the memories that really matter to them. She knows all of the right words to say and when to say them. She knows how to let them find their way and also when to pull back a little with them all.

Annie knows when to push them all forward and when to pull back. She watches all three of them go through the ups and downs of trying to find themselves and their way to each other. Each one of them, finding their peace as they work towards the choice they have to make – which one of them will take over the position of Chairman of the Board.

The three find their common thread – their love for their Grandmother.

It’s crazy beautiful to see how a common thread of love can make them all find their joy, but also their way back to each other. Family is important to them all, but they’ve all just found that about each other. They’ve spent so long being mad, that they’ve forgotten about the joy of being with each other.

As the family goes through their trials, they find their way back to each other and to making choices that they didn’t think that they could make. They find a way to make it through their misconceptions, their heartache, and to remembering what is important – family.

And then there is that whole falling in love and finding your way back to the person that you were meant to be with.

Debbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle is the ultimate movie about love, family, and the meaning of Christmas. It will have you crying from the first minute to the last minute and at the end of the day, it will also leave you remembering what is important.

Family.