WEBVTT - MIStletoe 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:16.239 Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. So every year 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.880 I say to myself, Okay, I am not going to 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.040 let Christmas sneak up on me. I'm not gonna let 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.279 it happen this year. And I say I'm going to 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.080 plan ahead. Yeah right, you guys knew me. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.200 I don't plan. That would make life too easy. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:39.000 So yeah, guess what, it's Christmas. Oh my gosh, it's 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.400 almost Christmas. And you know what that means. Its amount 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:48.320 of time. So it's interesting because my friend Macy said 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.000 to me this year, I'm going to help you. She 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:52.519 was helping me out while I was doing Dancing with 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.440 the Stars the finale, and she said, I'm gonna help you. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.240 I'm gonna get kids to write their Christmas list, and 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.560 no joke. I said to her, it's no, what are 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.399 you talking about? And she goes, it's November. What are 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.840 you talking about? And I was like, oh, this is me. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:09.360 Why do I do this to myself? 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:10.080 You're right? 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.760 So she got the kids to all right Christmas list 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:14.920 and then she said, I'm going to help you here 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:16.759 and plan a day and I'm going to go with you. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.280 And I said, okay, that's great, and she said, when 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.640 can you go like next weekend. I was like no, no, no, no, no, no, 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.080 no no, we have so much time. Long story short, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.240 it's a days before Christmas. I haven't even put a 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.160 huge dent into the Christmas list and I never took 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:32.840 mac up on that. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.560 May see if for listening, what are you doing Christmas Eve? 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.000 So Christmas time is stressful with five kids. Christmas time 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.520 is stressful with any amount of kids. 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.199 You know what's doubly it's doubly award. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:52.200 You know what's double stressful this year is that we 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:57.120 do celebrate Christmas and Hanukah. And it's again I always 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.520 say this, it's not about a religious thing. It's a 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:05.200 holiday celebration thing. And while I am Jewish, always have 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:09.040 celebrated Christmas. You know, I grew up my mom went 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.600 all out for Christmas, but we all also celebrated Hanukah 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:13.840 and all Jewish holidays. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.640 So but this. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:20.360 Year, I'm not sure what happened, but Christmas and Hanukah 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:21.120 fall in the same day. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.120 It literally never happens. Ritana. Is this true? Yes, that 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:25.680 is true. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.640 They paul exactly the same time this year. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:29.760 Which. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:37.320 Yeah, it's I mean, if you're a household that celebrates both. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.160 It's well, it sucks for the parents, That's all I'm 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:48.400 gonna say, because it's you know, first of all, Christmas 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.480 is about giving and giving and giving and giving until 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:57.120 you just are completely suck dry. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.120 I'm not gonna candy can it here. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.560 I'd love a Candican right now. The Cancan is espresso martini. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:06.399 Doesn't that sound good? 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:08.320 That sounds amazing. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.560 Oh yes, with a sugar run. 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.200 I said, okay, well, I'm getting distracted by my own 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.200 self typical. So you know, kids make their Christmas list, 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.320 they're devastated if they don't get the things on their list. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.799 And you're like, oh, sorry, I guess Santa couldn't get 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.320 you everything. My kids said to me last year, do 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.840 you think next year you could get me something? And 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.200 I wanted to say, like, oh, I got you everything 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.400 that you got, and he's like, because Santa got me 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.960 all these presents, and Mom, you didn't get me anything. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.440 But I couldn't say anything. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:44.880 I was like, oh, that's true, that's true. So Christmas 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.200 gifts and then eight days to Hanka. So if you 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:48.680 do both, you do both. That's great. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.720 That's great, and then of course it's just a lot, 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.840 and it's overwhelming. And when things get overwhelming and there's 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.400 a list for me to do, I tend to focus 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.800 on like number twenty on the list of top ten. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.160 So wait, I have a question, Yeah. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:11.680 Are you going to buy each child a present for 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.000 each night of Hanukkah? 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:13.600 Fuck? 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.159 No, okay, because I was going to say, you may 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:18.760 want to just lump that all together. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.920 No more of a symbolic I used to listen, I'm 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.760 a tired old mom. Like as my best friend Jess 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.479 always says, lame Stella got the best years of my life, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.360 like bo being the fifth child, had him at forty four. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.440 Yeah, he's a poor guy. He just gets slumped. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.760 And the good and bad news is he doesn't know. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.200 He doesn't really really know, Euce if he watches that 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:46.679 damn YouTube and YouTube ruins things like there's so many Yeah, 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.440 so he knows, so he knows like he's supposed to 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.920 get at eight days of presence. But I used to 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.320 like lame Sella, Oh my gosh, the huge DIY like 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:55.839 advent calendar I would make. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.839 I would make cookies, cookies, cookies from scratch. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.839 I didn't stop di wining and baking until the well 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.839 was dry, and it was never dry like it was. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.640 I was younger then too, but I just don't have 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:10.360 it in me anymore. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.080 So yeah, we'll put out our manora and we'll light 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.680 the candles every night, and perhaps a chocolate coin every night. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.680 Boe got excited about those. 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.119 So that's what he knows in a dradle, and maybe 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:25.400 one small gift the first night. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:32.039 That sounds good, That sounds doable. Going back to gifts, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.120 Can I talk elf on the shelf? Please? 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.400 Elf on the shelf? Is just there's so many things now, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.640 Like I mean, there's like, oh gosh, elf on a shelf. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.919 There's minch on a bench. There's a fairy on the prairie, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:55.159 I don't know, like Snoop dog on the roof, Snoop 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.919 on the stoop, we got that one. There's so many 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.839 and they see them and they want them. And you know, 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.080 I always say, I'm guilty mom, guilty working mom, and 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.080 so I'm like, oh, okay, because the honest thing is 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.960 is I'm such a big kid at heart that my 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.160 eyes are like the cartoon character, like like Tom and 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.719 Tom Jerry, Like my eyes light up too, and I'm like, 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.320 oh my god, what a great idea, what a great 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.760 new tradition. Yes, yes, until I have to do the 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.920 work and I'm like no, no, why did I do 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.440 this to myself? But anyway, so elfa on the Shelf 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:35.240 this year the teenagers, I was like, hey, guys, I'm 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.760 going to hand some of the nights over to you. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.640 So we do this thing and we go through the 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:46.080 house and take turns, so it'll be you know, I'll 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.000 do one night and then after dinner I'll dis quietly 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.479 run by Stella and be like, tag, you're it, and she's. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.640 Like no, I'm like, yeah, yeah, you're it, and she's like, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.240 oh no why. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.360 And then Liam will do it one night, Patty'll do 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.040 it one night, Finn I'll do it one night. Which 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:04.480 is a little sad to me that four out of 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.839 my five kids don't believe in elf on the Shelf anymore. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:09.960 I won't even talk Santa with them because I don't 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.680 even want to hear it. I don't even want to 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.000 hear it. Like, as far as I'm concerned, he's as 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:15.920 real as it comes, Like it's I don't want to 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:16.280 hear it. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.880 We're just pushing through. We just celebrate as if he 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.120 does exist. But let's face it. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.880 You know, at this point, Bo's the only one that's 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:31.000 really like, oh my gosh. Anyway, So I like to 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.720 do very like creative things with elf on the shelves. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.040 I always say, our elves are kind of naughty, and 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.040 we have you met me. They have a little bit 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.760 of a you know, naughty body, dirty, dark sense of humor. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:56.920 They're mischievous, rebellious, they're me in an elf Zah. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:58.280 Finn did this one. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.920 Finn joined in on the fun down one morning and 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.600 the elves were all gathered around the stove and they 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.760 had a skillet not on, and reindeer was in the 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.720 skillet and he wrote a note. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.840 How do you like your reindeer rare, medium or well done? Wow? 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.360 I said, no, no, no, no. 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:26.200 When it comes to elves and reindeers, we're vegan. It's 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:31.560 funny when girls versus boys do it, because Stella and Hattie. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.400 Do do the elves. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.360 And it's like very creative and very artsy, and you know, 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.600 they're doing bath bombs and they're like doing cute things 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.240 and they're taking like you know, they're cooking and making 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.840 things and stop up baking and like it's cute, like 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.640 cutesy like stuff, and then the boys do it and 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:56.880 they're like sex love, rock and roll, no minus love. Anyway, 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.760 it's a better It's better than my elves that caught 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.719 the last year, so because that was a little more 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:07.920 heartbreaking when their skins started to catch on fire. It 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.400 was like very triggering. It was like Benny Hannah for 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.080 me all over again. But we had to get niw 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:19.160 Wolves and they've made it through, so can't wait for 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:20.280 them to be gone. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:20.959 Anyway. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.600 It's very confusing Christmas dinner because it's Tonica dinner as well, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:32.600 so if you celebrate both. Oh, I can't even say 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.880 what I'm about to say. We we typically have a 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:35.560 Christmas ham. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.400 Wow. It would. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.560 Only because it's you know me, I'm really big on tradition. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:47.920 Growing up, we always had turkey for Thanksgiving my mom 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.760 would have and then for Christmas we would have turkey 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:51.600 and ham. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.040 So I just grew up with that tradition. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:59.200 I know, I know, but it's Hanica. So it's like, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.560 can't have a ham? Like do you have a ham? 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.560 Do you have a brisket? Like, I'm not sure what 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:03.880 to do? 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.600 You know, you could do some potato pancakes and call 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.160 it today. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.160 Definitely some potato pancakes. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.360 But it's like, yeah, okay, so yeah, I told Stella 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.640 and she was like she always helps me, you know, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.000 cook and do everything. And she was like, mom, no, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.280 we can't have a ham. And I was like, I know, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.760 but you guys love Hi bait tam for Christmas. She's like, 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.000 I know, but it's it's Christmas. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:37.800 Christmas cu, Christmas cut, Christmacha, Christmas cut. What is that? 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.599 I like, Christmacha. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:48.280 Christmacha, It's Christmacha. Yeah. So anyway, it'll be interesting to 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:49.040 see what happens. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:53.600 Ham and Lacus a great Hanaka tradition. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.040 So you know what you know when that big like 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.360 stuff a bird and a bird and a bird was 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.120 back was in like back in the day. I remember 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.960 I made a turn duncan turn duck in one year? 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:07.360 What is that? 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:08.160 Like? 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.600 You put a duck in a turkey. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.040 You're going to be so mad right now? You put 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.079 a duck in a you put a duck in a 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:17.000 chicken in a turkey. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.360 Yeah, that's not working for me on any level. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:25.600 I know. So maybe this year I have a turkey. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:27.280 I have a turkey. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:32.480 I stuff it was get filter fish with the slab 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.920 of ham perfect right across the top of it. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:43.840 Perfect. Get filter fish, like the nastiest Jewish food ever created. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.120 Fair that concur I. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.600 Don't know one Jewish human that likes it, or non 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.480 Jewish human or human or you know what. You know, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.280 you know it's bad when you get it, because it's tradition. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.240 You're like, oh, we have the gift filter fish, and 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.760 everyone's like, I don't want to filled of fish. And 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.560 then you try to and then you're like oh and 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.800 you feel bad. So you're like the dog want it, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.880 and the dogs like fuck no. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.840 And then you're like, okay, well it's fish. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.120 I'm sure the cattle eat it. And the cat just 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:18.360 like turns and like put this tail up button your. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:19.240 Face and like walks off. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:28.120 You're like, okay, they shouldn't make this anymore. I'm sorry. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.160 So as far as Christmas presents, I think I have 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.600 missed my mark for Amazon Prime. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.160 Yeah, not think. I know. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.960 I checked last night, and that just means I'm gonna 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:44.840 have to do what I do every year, and this 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:45.800 is a tradition. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.720 I go on Christmas Eve and shop. Who does that? 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:51.320 Apparently a lot of. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.640 People because the mall is packed, It's like packed, and 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.480 then I have to wrap all night. Do you guys 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.040 have a solution like I feel? No, I can't have 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.280 a solution. So when the kids were younger, I did 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.559 a Santa's bag. I would say I was a lot 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.640 smarter than and it would be Santa's gifts in the big, 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:10.000 you know. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.160 Red velvet bag embroidered with their names on it. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.760 First two children got Lucky Lucky have our gifts that 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.320 we would wrap, but the majority would be from Santa. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.280 I'm sorry, I'm keeping my voice down. My kids are 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.120 in the other room. It's just bo anyway. And then 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.880 I went to no Santa bag because I lost it somewhere. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.400 In storage obviously, and then start wrapping all the gifts. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.800 And Deane used to help me wrap all the gifts, 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:40.200 but obviously now I'm a single mom, separate households. So 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.200 Stella wrapped all the gifts with me, and it's just 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:49.000 poor thing she shops the gifts with me. So last year, 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.400 I'm not kidding, Stella didn't get a Christmas present at all. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:58.560 Why because I waited the last minute and then I 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.240 was doing it all alone. She had to help me. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.560 She felt bad because it was like, oh, this is 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.800 you know, I have to help and I want the 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:09.600 siblings all. Her big thing is she doesn't want our 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.160 lives to impact especially. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.040 Well, so she is really. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.040 Driven on that, like this is tradition, this is what 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:18.800 we've always done. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:20.360 We're gonna do it. I'll do it with you. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.280 I don't care about my gift. I don't want a gift. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.440 Let's go, Let's make sure bo has everything, Let's wrap it. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.480 It's gonna be great, and we're gonna do this in 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.960 surprise the when Santa came home in the stocking and 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.080 cooked dinner. And it's just she stresses a lot about it, 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.520 which I love her for that, but because she knows 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.840 I've always stressed about it and just wanted them to 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.960 ultimately have an amazing Christmas and feel. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:46.960 Love and joy. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.520 But it's just so it's Christmas has gotten so out 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.640 of hand. It's not about love and joy anymore. It's 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.440 like kids, little kids now are just like, oh, I 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.200 get a present, What do I get? What do I get? 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.480 And it's just so different that it's taken the love 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.080 and joy out of it for us adults who love 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.040 the holidays, and it's taken it out of the joy 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:12.240 for my six year old. So anyway, last year, we 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.640 were shopping down to the wire. I remember I had 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.800 my friend babysitting the kids at the house. Stella was 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.600 out with me. We did a mad dash to that mall. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:22.480 Oh my gosh. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:27.000 We got most of the stuff and then I was 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:27.800 just like, this. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.440 Is awkward, Stella, I color buggy, buggy, I don't know 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.360 what to do, like, I know your I have your list, 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.680 which was small, and I said, but I feel weird. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.360 Do I stop now and say go look the other 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.000 way and let me run in here and get it 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.680 for you. And she's like, no, Mom, we got to 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.440 get this done. Just go I don't need We'll deal 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.840 with me later. Well, we didn't deal with her later. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.360 She stayed a all night with me wrapping gifts. I 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.200 think she and I finally went to bed at like 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.240 four in the morning, and then of course like bows 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.880 up at like seven, like let's open gifts. And it 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:00.600 we was like. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:02.120 We pulled it off. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.080 I mean, if I hadn't had her, I would not 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.320 have pulled it off successfully. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:09.440 And we did. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:14.320 And it's just and she was like I think Kattie 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.360 and Finn still believe, but I don't know. So, and 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:18.880 the house we were in at the time was an 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.200 Airbnb and their rooms are right. 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:21.880 Over where we were. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.760 Like we literally had gifts sitting outside and we were 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.280 like trying to pull them in. And then we got 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.080 like this little car for Bo. And I'm sorry, I 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.960 hate being like male female, like it's a boy's job, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.080 but I don't know how. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.160 To put a car together, like it's. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.680 Like with a million pieces of plastic and screws. And 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.600 Stella is really good at that though, so she and 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.640 that's what Dean used to do. So like Stella was 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.400 up all night putting this like motorized car for Bo 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.960 to get in and drive, putting it together all night, 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.400 and I was just like, I'm so sorry, baby. So anyway, 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.400 this year I would love to tie you on this 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.080 and finish this off grade and strong. But this year 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.840 I said to her, okay, I need your Christmas list, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.679 and she said, well, it's just like a few things 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.639 on it, like I just want like a couple of 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:16.360 T shirts and like it was like nothing like literally 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.080 three things of like each thing was like, you know, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.280 a ten dollars, like a piece of clothes, Like I 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:25.200 want that a pair of socks, fuzzy socks, and I said, well, 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:26.600 what do you want? She goes, you know what I 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.960 want and I was like, well, you're not getting the 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:33.159 vintage Bronco and she's like, I don't want anything for Christmas. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.879 I would like to start a fund and so, and 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.400 I'm going to work really hard. And when she's sixteen, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.800 she has got her learners permit, but she has six 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:44.520 months till she gets you know, takes the driving test 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.480 and can drive a car. And we have one vehicle, 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:55.480 so you know, between pickups in all five kids, I 0:17:55.520 --> 0:18:00.560 assume we will need a second mode of transportation. And 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.080 she really wants to work hard and put money towards 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:09.639 that and work for her own car. And she wants 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.080 to kind of restore because she's really good at stuff 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.879 like that, at building and redoing and repurposing. And she 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.679 wants her dream car, which ironically is my dream car 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.159 because I meant to antique cars as well, is a 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.639 vintage Bronco, but not like the fancy ones, are not 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:32.080 like the totally redone ones that cost so much. She 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.280 wants to take like a real, like junkie one and 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:40.320 literally work on it and restore it with her own money. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.399 So yeah, she just said all she wants me to 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.160 do is start contributing to her Bronco fund. But how 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:48.879 do I not give her something on Christmas? 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:54.360 Like I don't make a nice contribution, open the account 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.560 and put some money in there. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:03.040 Oh what, sorry you lost me an opening account and 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:04.160 you lost me a get up money. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:14.000 Sorry. Oh and Finn, Finn wants gift cards. I was like, 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:14.600 who does that? 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:19.120 He's like V box or b blocks whatever roadblocks, b 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.560 bucks the gaming cards you know, or he wants like 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:29.200 a gift card, Amazon gift card. I'm like, that takes 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.760 all the fun out of it. And there's so many 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:36.240 practical parents out there. My ex would say, great, like 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.639 this is. But I love the gift of giving and 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.280 being creative. Well I used to do. I used to 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:43.080 love it so much. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:45.959 Allegedly I love it. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.119 But when I have the time, I love to really 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.760 like hone in on what people like and make them 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:56.159 or give them something that's not just the ordinary, but 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:57.040 something they'd. 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.159 Be like, oh, wow, I told you I like a 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:01.320 B and C like a. 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.800 Year or two years ago, and you remember that and 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:05.320 then you like brought it back around. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:06.720 I love that stuff. 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.199 So for me to like put a gift card in 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.680 a box and wrap it would. 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:20.119 Be so easy, but feels not very joyous. He'll be joyous. 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:27.440 Yeah, it's practical. Yeah, So they're at that age anyway. 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:32.160 So that's Christmas, that's Hanukah, that's elf on a shelf, 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:37.639 and that's the holidays. And the thing is like they 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.480 rip through the stuff so fast. Oh, rapping if anyone 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.159 has an idea on wrapping this year, because honestly, for 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.639 Stell and I to stay up like all night to 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:51.280 four am rapping little tiny like you know, Bo wants. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:52.960 A little like Ruk's cube. 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.320 He wants a you know, he's really into those, so 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.960 he likes different ones and and to match box cars, 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.200 like to wrap mutual thing. It's just like mundane and 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:04.120 just like, oh so what do I do with it? 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.159 That's why there's gift bags. They make gift bags in 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.400 every size and you can buy them in bulk at 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:16.320 like TJMX, but that's no fun. It's better to torture yourself. 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:18.800 Yeah. 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.919 Part of the joy of giving. 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.320 And here's the thing that happens every year. It does 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:26.919 that We're like, okay, we're. 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.440 Gonna put the tree up, and then we're like, we're 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.520 gonna decorate the tree and we're gonna lug all of 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:36.000 our it used to be you know, Christmas decorations out 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:38.000