he is a single dad – one with an impossibly cute and sparky kid (Olivia Perez), and a dead wife he brings up with increasing frequency as Falling For Christmas gallops towards its happy ending.

12) It was almost too obvious that Chord would be a single dad with a cute kid ... why do we never get a Christmas film about a guy falling for a single mum and taking her and her cute kid ...

Physically he was unstable, and my youngest son and I regularly were called by Mom to come home to pick him up off the floor after a fall ... our first Christmas season without Dad, and we ...