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Tis the season- Episode 6 · Sip Happens

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  I'm Alexandra. I am Lynn.
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  I'm Rose. And this is Sid Happens.
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  We wanted to just give you a heads up.
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  This podcast is all for fun and entertainment.
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  We are sharing our own thoughts and stories, not professional
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  advice. So relax, enjoy and don't take
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  us too seriously. Let's get this started.
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  Welcome to Sid happens. What's in your cup today?
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  In my cup you gave me a can of Wiccan group apple pie, hard
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  cider, and it's very, very interesting.
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  Interesting how? It is like an apple pie and that
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  in a drink is just feels weird. It's interesting.
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  I'm not sure if I like it yet. It's kind of spiced.
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  Yeah, well, I have the green apple and let me tell you, it's.
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  Smooth, I'm happy. Would.
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  You like me to change it? We can.
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  Switch it up now, I'm sure I'm still trying it.
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  At any point you don't want it. Because it's not like a beer,
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  right? The.
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  It's a cider. It is a cider.
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  I don't, I really don't know what cider means to be honest,
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  but I I have Heineken because I don't think the cider just
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  doesn't doesn't go well. But if you like beer, it's very
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  different. So cider and beers are a little
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  different. What is cider?
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  Apple juice that gets fermented too long and gets boozy.
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  OK, cider. Cider.
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  So basically going to similar processing with the yeast and
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  all that fun stuff. But yes, the fermentation
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  process of apple juice. And usually.
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  It's gluten free, so in my gluten free era this was way to
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  go. Any alcohol?
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  Yes, yes, you're still getting the alcohol and your Heineken is
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  not. Not this.
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  We That was a long conversation about objects tonight.
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  I love it. Well, let's talk about the
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  season, guys. I am excited.
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  Excitement in this podcast. Very different.
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  I told you, I'm like, it's coming.
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  My time just fine is here, guys. I'm super excited.
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  I'm surprised your house is not a winter Wonderland.
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  So. You don't let her.
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  Thank. You, that's exactly what
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  happens. We do have the music every now
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  and then, but if hubby says go because we're, we're definitely
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  believing like every holiday needs to be celebrated.
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  So you know, the Thanksgiving and then the next day, it's fair
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  game. Now we may be travelling.
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  I'm not saying we may not be all decked out in outfits, but you
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  know there will be signs I. Think I love this the most of
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  having those Christmas pajamas and having the family matching
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  pajamas. I love those the kids don't want
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  to do. That anymore?
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  Is. This what happens when you're a
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  teenager. They don't do the corny ones
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  anymore. The only thing I can persuade
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  them to is like the checkered ones.
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  You know the. Traditional.
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  Yeah, that's like. OK, that's fine.
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  We will. We will wear that.
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  But now, no more Mickey Mouse. All the fun stuff.
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  Or you know, anything like that. Even Chloe.
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  Chloe, I think, would still do it, but it's not like something
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  that she gets excited about. Me and my husband's never been
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  excited about the matching stuff anyway.
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  My husband grew into that a little bit, I think after Thiago
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  and I was going to tell you my bestie in Arkansas, she wants to
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  decorate as soon as November hits in and her husband was also
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  hard now. Yeah, but every year.
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  She pulls it. Just to see how.
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  Far we'll go he did get approval right, but she's just been
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  pushing it so just. Say my husband and I, we were in
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  agreement. OK, before kids, like everything
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  needs to be celebrated Thanksgiving and then we're
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  ready, right? And then we bought our house and
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  that's when actually all whole family tradition started.
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  The whole PJ thing. That's not something I grew up
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  with, like matching PJS. And I was like, Oh my gosh,
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  you're wearing matching PJS. Let's start taking pictures.
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  Then we will dress up pooch as well, my dog.
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  So now we have kids and it's becoming this tradition every
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  year, which I love. And we're like, OK, we're all
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  wearing matching PJS to open our guests.
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  It's a thing. But right now, my little one,
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  he's into music and the songs, the trends and stuff that's
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  happening. And I think that's why this year
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  I'm kind of trying to see if we could start maybe Christmas
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  early. Yeah, no, he's not watching.
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  He's like, no, he's not there yet.
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  It's fine, but we'll listen to music.
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  The funny thing that I have to giggle about is you love
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  Christmas so much, but she hates Christmas sweaters even a thing.
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  They look so ugly. I get it.
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  It's an ugly sweater. What is this?
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  Sweater. When did that become a?
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  What is? Why is that a thing?
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  I don't like to see. I love her.
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  I have, she loves. It.
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  I love. It I have to borrow it from her.
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  My husband's aunt, that's a really ugly sweater party and
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  I'm looking at this why? And I'm like, I don't want to
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  study. Exactly. $30.
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  Per Ugly Sweater. That's why I get my welcome
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  sweaters at the end of the season when there are like 5 to
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  $10 like last year. I think I even showed Alexandra
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  some pictures. I'm like, look what I found for
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  five. Bucks and it's like.
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  It is Santa Claus with a surfboard.
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  Come on. I do like those.
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  Decapes that I've seen in Florida with Santa.
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  It is short and cute flip flops. So cute.
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  I get it. But, you know, after you told me
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  this last year because I didn't realize how much she loves ugly
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  sweaters, OK. I mean, she was like, I have 20
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  you can borrow. And so I decided after Christmas
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  to go shopping, and I still wouldn't spend $5.00.
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  But I didn't buy a sweater that says Mary on it with different
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  colors. And I was like, what about this
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  in her face? It was like this beige color.
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  I'm like $5 and she was just like, that does not count what
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  it's not. Ugly.
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  Ugly. It's not.
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  Ugly. It's not ugly.
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  It's not. Parenting their own rules.
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  It needs to be corny and it could be ugly.
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  It needs if it has some glitter or the.
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  How do you call those things? Oh, like good stencil.
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  Not yet that too, but the the the pebbles.
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  They are like, where's the rhinestone?
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  Thingies that too, but. It just gets uglier.
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  My goodness, I can't even think of the name of it.
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  They look like circles, and they have their shine and their.
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  I know it in Spanish, it's. Yeah, that.
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  I'm not into ugly sweater, so I don't learn all the words and
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  stuff. I have no idea.
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  Oh. My God, sorry, I can't.
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  People wear for New Year's. Yes.
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  Like you move and it's yes and the color changes a little bit
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  like mermaid sequences and if it lights up and sinks.
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  Like, it's the uglier the better.
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  Yeah. We don't have ugly sweaters.
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  I will tell you that. Wow.
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  We make effort. I met you, Lynn.
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  I didn't. I didn't understand the depth of
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  appreciating ugly sweater because you're at a next level.
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  And I'm like, this is all you, my friend.
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  I think I know where it came from from my side.
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  I don't know if you remember Bridget Jones Diary.
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  Yes. Have you watched it?
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  What? How have you know my I just
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  didn't. Remember, because I what was.
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  His name? Mr. Oh my God, it's not Darby.
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  Darcy, Darcy, Darcy. I'm darn sure I watched it.
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  So she meets this guy at a Was it a Christmas dinner?
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  It's a dinner party. Was it Christmas dinner?
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  Christmas. Party, I feel like we have to
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  play this. We have to watch this movie now.
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  There are multiple one, but like the the first one is when Mr.
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  Darcy was wearing his, I think his mom.
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  So yeah, I think that's where I think that's where it came from
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  on my side. It was just such a big
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  impression on that ugly shirt. That kind of start, you know,
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  it's grows on you. That's cute.
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  That's. Courage of ugliness.
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  And it's just kind of liberating because like you guys probably
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  did growing up, Christmas, you had to wear.
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  The you know the. Prettiest dress had to have your
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  hair nice, yes, you know, polished shoes and all the
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  things. And I think it was just such a
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  liberating thought to me that you can just put on a sweater.
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  And some jeans. Look like a mess and you are
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  dressed for the occasion. OK, yeah, it's not having to
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  dress up which needs. To be about like.
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  Not feeling that pressure yeah for the holidays got but yes
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  when I was little you had to dress up with the.
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  Yes, it was the whole thing. The poofy dress.
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  Your hair is done. Yeah, that.
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  Yeah. And you look your best.
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  And the socks with the little yeah.
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  The ruffle, yeah. Plenty of photos I will try to
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  bring, I'm from Puerto Rico. Please I have some too.
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  I have some and we always have ribbons like those huge ribbon.
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  All all those things. I loved it when I was little, by
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  the way, because my sister-in-law took care of me
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  while my mom was in the hospital sometime and she had to call my
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  dad because I wanted to wear a dress that was meant for like a
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  festive occasion to school in kindergarten.
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  So apparently I loved it. So I guess we talked about
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  matching PJ's ugly sweaters. Ugly.
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  Sweaters. The next question for me would
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  be what's your most Christmas meal?
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  Not as an adult, but as a kid? Do you recall that last
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  Christmas that you were like, I will forever?
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  Remember that? I wouldn't say that I remember a
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  specific Christmas, but what I do remember growing up in
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  Germany is that we didn't have Santa Claus coming on Christmas
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  Eve. We had a day for Santa Claus,
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  Saint Nicholas Day, Nicolaus Talk and we had Christmas and it
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  was when the Christ child cuskind brought the present.
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  So we had two different days to celebrate and Saint Nick's Day
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  was the night of the 5th to the 6th.
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  You had to Polish your shoes in the night time of the 5th and
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  then you had to put it outside of your door.
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  I'm sorry, December 5th. Yes.
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  That's early. 5th to 6th, yeah, OK.
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  The night from the 5th to the 6th.
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  Got it. Yes.
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  Please share it because I don't know.
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  Polish your shoes. You put your shoes outside the
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  door and if you were good you will get little goodies.
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  Only things that fit in your shoes.
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  Nothing ridiculous like, you know, stuff like that.
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  Usually there are some nuts in there.
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  Oranges, some chocolate, like a crisp, like a chocolate Santa
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  Claus. Just little Knick knack things
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  that fit in a shoe or a boot. OK.
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  And if you've been bad, there will be a lump of coal.
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  What a legit lump of coal. Lump of coal?
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  Legit lumps of coal. I've heard about it before.
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  I've never gotten. A.
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  Because you were. So that was Saint Nick's Day and
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  then Christmas we would celebrate the 24th, midnight,
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  midnight Mass. The 24th was bigger than the
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  25th. Like in Germany you celebrate
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  Christmas Eve and then the next two days is like when you visit
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  France from all. Same for us.
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  That was going to be my next question.
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  When do you actually celebrate? For us, the 24th is the big
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  event. The day parties.
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  All of that the opening gifts and I grew up with in the
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  church. So we all because that service
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  you know throughout the night and all of that.
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  The 25th is when you go visit family and friends and all you
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  have people coming over but all the festivities.
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  Happen on the 20. 4th, 24th was like the special day.
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  That's when you open the presents, that's when you have
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  the fees. And it was in Germany, baby
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  Jesus that was giving the presents, not Santa Claus.
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  Santa Claus had his own day. And of course, you know, over
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  the years got very Americanized, even injured.
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  So things are getting wishy washed now.
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  But growing up, and I'm going to date myself, it's like 30 years
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  ago, that's how it was. Like you had Saint Nick coming
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  on the night of the 6th and then you had baby Jesus giving you
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  the presents on, you know, on a March here, the night time
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  evening mass. How did you celebrate Rosie?
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  I think it was. Perfect that she was asking
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  about when, because that was my memory.
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  I have very vague memories of when I was like really little.
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  But I do have a core memory when we moved from Chicago to Puerto
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  Rico because in Chicago it was festive on the 20th.
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  Usually my mom would host that dinner if it was kind of like a
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  potluck. People would bring food.
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  Everybody has dinner. And we waited until midnight.
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  And then we all kind of sat in the living room and everybody
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  just gifting, giving their gifts.
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  That's Santa because it was mostly Santa have given to like
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  Alex and oh, this is what Santa left Alex for you and all of
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  that. So and I do also remember a
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  photo where I had like the whole couch was just no toys.
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  So I remember I got rainbow dry that big memory.
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  But then we moved to Puerto Rico when I was what?
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  And then there was no decoration, but there was no
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  Christmas tree. People talked about Christmas,
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  but there wasn't like a big commotion.
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  And they didn't do anything on the 20.
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  It was on the 25th. And most people didn't really
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  gift anything. They just did the dinner.
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  And then I remember having an on or two that gave me gifts, but
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  mostly it was my parents. So it was so different that I
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  was, especially since I was 12, took me out of Chicago right to
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  Puerto Rico. That did not help.
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  No, I didn't. Like me.
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  Like I don't like this at all. There are no gifts.
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  Did not like it at all. Yeah.
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  And that just kept being the same way.
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  It was always like on the 25th, we would get together.
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  Sometimes you'll get a gift, but I had nothing to look forward to
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  because in Chicago it was so different.
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  The holiday starts early. You see Christmas everywhere
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  like decorations and the music at the stores that much of that
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  in Puerto Rico. However, what threw me off in
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  Puerto Rico was when I got gifts on the 6th of January because
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  they celebrate 3 Kings Day. I never celebrated 3 Kings Day.
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  I didn't even know what that was.
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  Why? Because I didn't grow up going
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  to church like we would only go maybe on Easter certain days.
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  So I get this gift. I'm like what?
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  Thank you, say. And I'm like, I don't know, you
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  get gifts for that. Yeah, that's the first time I'm
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  hearing that too, that you receive gifts.
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  I mean, it makes sense if you think about it the.
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  Thing 3. Kings 3.
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  Kings. So I bring gifts to Jesus.
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  Yeah. And then you, you know, that's
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  this makes totally sense. But no, I've never.
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  Heard of it, never received that but so anybody that wants to
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  give us anything. Because the 6th.
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  We'll take it. We'll make it happen.
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  Let's add to that because I don't know if we're gonna
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  continue the tradition because I, I didn't know anything about
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  this, but it's a whole thing in Puerto Rico, you know, in the US
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  typically, or I don't know if Germany and other countries, but
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  you leave out cookies and milk for Santa for Santa, right?
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  3 kings. You leave out a glass of water
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  and some like grass for the So you'll see people on the 5th
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  taking their. Interesting you're.
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  Going to put it in a little box and then in the middle of the
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  night they will come and they will leave you here.
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  But they were healthier than Santa.
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  I kind of remember my last Christmas.
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  I know my last Christmas, right. So I grew up in the church.
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  Everything's celebrated. My mom loves to celebrate.
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  My mom went through a party. We'll have kids.
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  My mom loves kids. So we will always surrounded
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  with kids and gifts and all of the things right.
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  And then I will never forget. I go home to visit.
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  It was I was in college. I was, yes, I was grown, but I
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  still remember it. I went home to visit.
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  My brothers are coming home. So it was all of us coming home.
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  My parents just got a new house. We're excited.
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  By the way, this is also before the earthwork happened.
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  OK, so try to paint the picture here.
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  I go home, we're excited. We got a new house.
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  My brothers, actually, they each bought gift.
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  We bought gifts. And my parents decide we're not
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  having a tree. I'm like, what do you mean we
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  don't have a tree? We need a Christmas tree.
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  I also didn't grow up with a real tree.
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  It's always been a fake. Tree always fake too.
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  OK. And we decorate, we got the
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  tinsel. I mean, it's probably maybe it's
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  an ugly. Tree.
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  The trees are uglier. All of this stuff, we can ever
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  perfect the trees. It does not look like social
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  media, I will tell you, but it was a tree.
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  And when my, I remember my mom said this and we're like, OK,
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  what's the expectation? Like, are we doing anything?
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  And they're like, no, we're just going to have the gifts and we
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  can open it. And I'm kind of like, OK,
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  there's this one. I'm getting an envelope that if
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  there's no gift, we're getting money, right?
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  And I remember like we woke up. Everybody just kind of woke up.
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  The excitement of waking up and seeing the tree, none of that
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  happened. And I think it dawned on me
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  like, Oh my goodness, we're grown.
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  Like, OK, the kids are grown, we don't have to do this anymore.
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  That's the that's the explanation they gave us.
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  And I still remember because I remember like, wow, like we're
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  going to have to figure this out.
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  But by the time we already moved to the States, they were still
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  home in Haiti. Their celebration definitely
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  shifted. They still did things with the
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  church. The church was decorated and
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  stuff, but our house was not like we're like share exchanging
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  gifts. And I remember my little
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  brother. I forgot why he gifted me, but I
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  was so excited like, oh, you know me, you know, I still got a
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  gift and my my parents, yes, they ended up giving us an
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  envelope, of course, and I was excited for that, but I vividly
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  remembered there's no tree and that was sad for me.
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  Therefore I come back and now I'm like we're.
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  Happy Christmas every year. And now I have kids, I'm like,
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  yes, everything should be celebrated.
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  So in a nutshell, I feel like I'm carrying this tradition that
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  my parents did growing up. Like what I've seen.
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  I'm hoping to pass it to them because to them they don't, they
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  still don't do it anymore. Now I have a two-story home.
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  I'm like, we need to have a tree upstairs and downstairs.
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  But I have Oliver who touches everything.
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  And it started with pooch when I got pooch and I have to learn
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  that he's going to touch all those balls.
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  Like we had shattered balls everywhere because they kept
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  like like a cat snatch ball. So I was like, OK, I survived
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  that phase, and then Omari came and now we have Oliver.
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  So the tree keeps moving, but it's happening.
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  The agua hasn't been too messy with the tree, he is more now
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  like he has spent one healthy decorating.
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  He put in a a brook but when he was smaller he didn't pay too
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  much attention. I was really surprised because
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  my bestie that loves Christmas I told you about she had the baby
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  gates around her tree for a few years because both of the kids
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  wanted to touch, especially the second one.
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  And it's so cute over the years. I know yours are very small
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  still, but when they go to school and to kindergarten, they
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  will make ornaments in school. And they still get up on our
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  Christmas tree, no matter how ugly the star was that they cut
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  out with their little fingers. With their little hand prints
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  and all that. That's still all going.
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  On the Christmas. Tree, yes, So you can look
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  forward to selecting those. I just picked up my dogs from
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  the groomer last week and I got from the groomer an ornament
• 20:34
  with both of the dogs fur. I don't know, I felt about that.
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  Fur. Yes, I'm like.
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  Trusting. I'm like, thank you, I.
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  But it says to. Me 25 this.
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  Took a turn. Actually, I was just thinking, I
• 20:54
  was expecting her to say like a photo, see that?
• 20:56
  I'm about to say that's so that's cool, no?
• 20:59
  I'm going to say that the bow or something.
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  No the. Fur.
• 21:03
  No, the fur. I was not expecting.
• 21:05
  Collected both of them, so it's like a mix between the reddish
• 21:10
  and then the black and Gray in that mix together in that little
• 21:15
  ornaments. But interesting.
• 21:17
  It's something different. It's gonna get up on my
• 21:19
  Christmas tree OK. See, I thought the weirdest
• 21:24
  thing on my Christmas tree was 2020 with the mask, right,
• 21:28
  because we bought the ornament. But I think you topped it.
• 21:30
  You were my friend. Do you collect ornaments?
• 21:35
  Do you go buy ornaments like specifically every year?
• 21:39
  Like OK, we need a ornament for 2025 or do you make them?
• 21:43
  What's your ornament? Make them.
• 21:45
  No, I do not. I wouldn't say I'm consistent
• 21:49
  with it. So when we got married, I got us
• 21:51
  an ornament. When we bought our first house,
• 21:53
  I got us an ornament. Omari's first Christmas,
• 21:57
  Oliver's first Christmas, things like that.
• 21:59
  But this year, I don't know. We, so we usually do a family
• 22:02
  picture and that's where the matching PJ's thing because we
• 22:06
  started this tradition and now let's get pictures.
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  But as we're getting older and growing or family, we realized
• 22:13
  let's take some nice pictures that's actually dress up.
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  So this year might be different. I'm not consistent with it.
• 22:20
  What about you? I don't have it either.
• 22:22
  Actually, all the ornaments that I had in Puerto Rico, I gifted
• 22:26
  most of them. I know I saved some.
• 22:28
  That meant a lot to me. Like when I started dating my
• 22:31
  husband, I had like a little heart, the last heart.
• 22:35
  That's such very first Christmas.
• 22:37
  I don't know where it is. It's to me.
• 22:41
  It sounds like it's the one thing she's saying.
• 22:44
  Everything else was shattered. Your.
• 22:46
  Memory it's now it's. Over there back home and I can
• 22:49
  find it. I was trying to start a
• 22:52
  tradition because my bestie that I mentioned earlier, she does
• 22:56
  one ornament whether it's custom, but she does one
• 22:59
  ornament a year since she started dating her husband.
• 23:02
  So she recently talked about that to me, so I wanted to
• 23:06
  follow suit. So every year we did have one.
• 23:09
  I remember that the second year. So the first year I did that
• 23:13
  little part, our first Christmas.
• 23:14
  The second year is when we got Kobe.
• 23:17
  So we had a little photo of all three of us and one of those
• 23:21
  like Walgreens ornament things, right?
• 23:23
  So I remember I had snowflakes. And then the third year we spent
• 23:27
  Christmas in Saint Martin, I think it was.
• 23:30
  My family wasn't too happy about that.
• 23:31
  But I felt like this really cheap deals, like let's go
• 23:34
  travel. Yes, we both have a photo on the
• 23:36
  beach. Never done anything else.
• 23:38
  And I've been thinking about that recently.
• 23:40
  I was like, I could just go back through old photos and just
• 23:42
  catch up. Yes.
• 23:43
  It's only been like 10 years it. Might cost a bit all at once.
• 23:48
  But I don't have any photos like with Fiago or anything I.
• 23:52
  First Christmas I have. Photos with Santa but we never
• 23:55
  like put them up or anything. That's a good way.
• 23:59
  This whole at the go at the mall, take your babies, take
• 24:03
  pictures with Santa. That got weird for me.
• 24:05
  Again, I did not grow up with that, so I was, I never
• 24:08
  understood. First of all, there's a line
• 24:11
  that's a lot of patience and then you have this weirdo
• 24:14
  holding your kid so we can have a picture.
• 24:17
  Absolutely not. What are your thoughts on that?
• 24:20
  I was considering booking our appointment for this movie.
• 24:29
  It's very opposite. It's fine.
• 24:31
  It's not weird for me. I was actually really excited to
• 24:34
  take him the first year when he was like a baby.
• 24:36
  And then we weren't sure if we were going to go every year, but
• 24:39
  then we kind of wanted to see the girl.
• 24:42
  But and then I go to the same one.
• 24:44
  We have to go to UTC because it's the same Santa, or at least
• 24:48
  I'm looking at the same Santa. I what I like about that Santa,
• 24:51
  like he really has a beard. I can't do the fake beard thing.
• 24:54
  That's really creepy to me. But yeah, so we have three
• 24:58
  photos. We are thinking about getting it
• 25:00
  this deer and the intention is to kind of just see the growth.
• 25:04
  All three of us take the photo, not just the aggro.
• 25:06
  It's all three of us. Yeah, but I don't know how long
• 25:09
  it will last. You know, Like, you're not going
• 25:11
  to do 18 photos. You're probably not even going
• 25:13
  to want to do it. But every year I was telling my
• 25:16
  mom because my niece just got hers, and she's like, Oh my God,
• 25:19
  did you see her photo? She's just flying.
• 25:21
  Thiago was also filled the first year, but then last year he was
• 25:25
  a little bit weirded out, so most of the photos were just him
• 25:29
  with a weird face or wanting to sit on my lap.
• 25:32
  The best photo we're like give Santa have 5 and he gave him a
• 25:35
  high 5 and that's like our favorite.
• 25:36
  I'm like, okay, so we'll see. We'll see.
• 25:38
  This year he does, but maybe for the next few years, I don't
• 25:42
  know. But so far we like that
• 25:44
  tradition. Yeah, became our thing.
• 25:46
  I didn't grow up. Maybe I have one or two photos
• 25:49
  with Santa, I don't remember. Now, we actually did it every
• 25:54
  year we went to the bass pro shops because they do free
• 25:58
  Christmas pictures with Santa. OK, always the same background,
• 26:04
  always the same setting. The Santa is not a fake bearded
• 26:08
  Santa. He has a white beard.
• 26:10
  But of course, since we moved so many states, it will be always
• 26:15
  different from Sansa. That's but bass pro Until last
• 26:28
  year, we didn't do it because the kids were not really.
• 26:32
  Into it. We were trying to go but then it
• 26:35
  was already all booked out cuz you need to be on time booking
• 26:39
  those so you don't have to wait in line because they do have
• 26:44
  scheduling and walk insurance. But walk insurance will be two
• 26:49
  hours and so when you schedule it 15 minutes and you're in and.
• 26:53
  Out see that changes for me if you can book it or reserve a
• 26:57
  spot maybe I'd give it a try but this whole line I'm in line for
• 27:00
  two hours with my kids they don't stand or sit still
• 27:05
  absolutely not so. Do you want me to add a funny
• 27:09
  sign please? Last year we procrastinated OK
• 27:12
  and we went on the 24th if I recall and I'm trying to
• 27:17
  remember if we waited 3 or 4 hours because there were no
• 27:21
  spots available to but my husband was adamant to get it
• 27:25
  done. I was just like it doesn't
• 27:27
  matter at this point. But yes, he made some gallery at
• 27:30
  the mall for a long time and as long as it was our turn so.
• 27:36
  How was Seattle? He had to survive.
• 27:39
  He wanted to just run through the mall in that area.
• 27:42
  He was pretty entertained, but I was done. 3 hours.
• 27:45
  I would say it was about 3 hours if not more.
• 27:49
  For a picture. For a picture, I could have
• 27:51
  dressed up five seconds. I could have dressed up that
• 27:53
  Center for you. But bonus was they printed out
• 27:57
  double the photos by mistake and we had two for one, so I guess
• 28:01
  that was my reward. So this year, I was telling you
• 28:03
  what if we're going, we need to book it early.
• 28:07
  Just do it now. And the good thing about Bass
• 28:09
  Pro Shops is that you can bring your dogs.
• 28:13
  Oh, I don't know that. We did Bass Pro Shops once
• 28:15
  because we booked it and it was easy peasy.
• 28:18
  It was easy. And then the last time I tried
• 28:20
  to do it, like we got there, like in Santa was gone.
• 28:22
  I don't remember. I think it would get again.
• 28:25
  It's 2425. Like it was super last minute.
• 28:28
  Yeah, so that happened. But Bass Photoshop, I think we
• 28:31
  have 1 and I didn't even know about that.
• 28:33
  It's pretty. That's good to share because I
• 28:35
  had no idea. It's a pretty subtle.
• 28:37
  Maybe we get to do it this. I was gonna say, I'm like, have
• 28:40
  you asked? Maybe this year?
• 28:41
  Might be. Different.
• 28:42
  Yeah, yeah, Usually we try to get the pictures done around
• 28:46
  Thanksgiving and it is so cute to see the.
• 28:49
  Picture like the. Same background, the same
• 28:51
  setting and see the kids growing and getting bigger.
• 28:57
  Yeah, it makes you all nostalgic.
• 28:59
  I can't believe we're talking Christmas already, guys.
• 29:02
  I feel like it was yesterday, like I blinked and now we're
• 29:05
  here. Yes, I'm excited, but at the
• 29:07
  same time I'm like, I'm not ready.
• 29:09
  I'm not ready. There is still so much to do and
• 29:12
  I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels.
• 29:14
  Rushed just. Put the music and the food and
• 29:19
  the desserts and yes, I'm still working on it.
• 29:21
  I'm like, how am I going to survive this?
• 29:23
  How do you say no to all the goodies and you the Coco, the
• 29:27
  coffee, the aftermath? Mocha comes to live in the
• 29:31
  present. Live in the present.
• 29:32
  That's what people always say. You don't gain the weight
• 29:36
  between Christmas and New Year's.
• 29:38
  It's the New Year's to Christmas.
• 29:41
  That's the time when you gain the weight.
• 29:45
  I like that. That's like 2 weeks, 1011
• 29:48
  months. Two, it is 2 if you think about
• 29:51
  doesn't make huge damage for two weeks.
• 29:54
  It's what you do afterwards the other 1011 months of the.
• 29:58
  Year I will be working out. That's my goal.
• 30:00
  I think I'm on the right trajectory.
• 30:02
  Then we need to celebrate your one year mark.
• 30:05
  So that's the goal. Enjoy Christmas.
• 30:08
  That's. Right, celebrating that you have
• 30:10
  been consistent and you need to mark that date so we can
• 30:13
  celebrate you for the one year, see.
• 30:15
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• 30:18
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• 30:34
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• 30:36
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• 30:39
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