Speaker 1: Hey it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
Speaker 1: put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
Speaker 1: share with you on our daily podcast.
Speaker 2: Hey it's Delilah.
Speaker 1: We celebrate the holidays on my radio program all season long,
Speaker 1: and we'll be doing the same right here with you
Speaker 1: each day. With that, relax and enjoy the variety of
Speaker 1: wondrous delights listeners have shared with us as you prepare
Speaker 1: for this special time of year with your family and friends.
Speaker 3: Hi, good evening. Thank you for calling the Delilah Show. Cassie,
Speaker 3: Thanks for being patient. What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say how grateful I am for
Speaker 4: my family on Christmas, Okay, because this is my first
Speaker 4: year on my own and I wanted to tell my
Speaker 4: family that it's just not Christmas without them.
Speaker 2: So this is your first year in your own apartment?
Speaker 4: Yes it is?
Speaker 2: And have you got a little tree?
Speaker 4: App a little one like two feet?
Speaker 3: And are you trying to make it festive even though
Speaker 3: you're missing mom's cooking and missing all the ornaments you
Speaker 3: grew up with and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: I'm missing it a lot, but the good thing is
Speaker 4: right now, my mom picked me up from my house
Speaker 4: and we're baking cookies, just like every.
Speaker 5: Year that we do.
Speaker 2: So it's not like you moved a thousand miles away.
Speaker 4: No, I said, hour or two.
Speaker 3: Oh, Cassie, congratulations. I will never forget my first Christmas
Speaker 3: when I moved away from home. I made all the
Speaker 3: ornaments for my tree and I still have a couple
Speaker 3: of them, and I still put them on my tree
Speaker 3: every year.
Speaker 2: It's kind of hard.
Speaker 3: Well, you have a good holiday, Go finish the cookies.
Speaker 3: What kind are you baking?
Speaker 4: We're making seven layer cookies right now.
Speaker 2: Seven layer, Yeah, sounds delicious.
Speaker 5: It's the tradition.
Speaker 1: I received this delightful letter from a listener named Rod,
Speaker 1: who says, Delilah, I love the idea of paying it forward,
Speaker 1: and I love that you talk about that. That thought
Speaker 1: or idea is the best part of the Christmas season.
Speaker 1: About twenty five years ago, there was a young couple
Speaker 1: with a baby that had a flat tire at the
Speaker 1: entrance to our apartment complex. It was a well used car,
Speaker 1: let's say, and they had no spare. I dropped off
Speaker 1: the wife and baby at my apartment, where my wife
Speaker 1: took good care of them, and I drove the husband
Speaker 1: down to the local tire store. My friend at the
Speaker 1: tire store said the tire was too damaged to repair
Speaker 1: and that the young man needed a new one. The
Speaker 1: fellow said he could not afford a new one as
Speaker 1: they were struggling now and he didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I asked my friend at the tire store if he
Speaker 1: had a good used tire that would work. He did
Speaker 1: and sold it to us for twenty five bucks. I
Speaker 1: paid for it, even though it was quite a bit
Speaker 1: of money for us at that time, and we got
Speaker 1: the couple back on their way. The young fellow said
Speaker 1: he could never repay my kindness. I said, yes you can.
Speaker 1: I told him someday, many years from now, you might
Speaker 1: run across a young couple stranded by the road. Well,
Speaker 1: the Lord has been good to us. We are past
Speaker 1: our struggling days, and many folks helped us when we
Speaker 1: were stranded by the road. At this Christmas season, let
Speaker 1: us all remember to help those who can ever hope
Speaker 1: to repay us. Maybe that way we can change the world.
Speaker 1: Thanks again for all you do from a listener named
Speaker 1: Ron and this is Delilah. Thank you for calling us tonight.
Speaker 1: You wrote to us and said you had a Christmas
Speaker 1: story you wanted to share, Yes, I did, so tell
Speaker 1: us your story.
Speaker 5: Well, it's sort of bittersweet. Actually. When I was about
Speaker 5: nine years old, it was a few weeks before Christmas.
Speaker 5: There are seven of us kids, and mom was pregnant
Speaker 5: with number eight on my word, and my dad had
Speaker 5: been in the hospital for a couple months, and so
Speaker 5: money was pretty tight.
Speaker 3: Money's pretty tight, seven mouths to feed and dad not working.
Speaker 5: Right, And I remember my older sister telling me that
Speaker 5: don't expect too much for Christmas. And one nine years
Speaker 5: I mean, I understood why, but it's hard.
Speaker 1: You understand it in your heart, but I still want
Speaker 1: Santa to come to your house, right.
Speaker 5: And about a week before Christmas, this man came up
Speaker 5: to the door and left a box that was full
Speaker 5: of gifts, and there was one for each of us
Speaker 5: kids and one for my mom. And mine was a
Speaker 5: little doll, a little plastic, soft plastic doll had red
Speaker 5: hair and freckles. And I was amazed that people who
Speaker 5: didn't even know us would give us presents. I never
Speaker 5: thought anyone would be so kind to do that. That
Speaker 5: meant so much to me. And I've you know, I've
Speaker 5: had many, many Christmases. But that's one that really sticks
Speaker 5: in my mind.
Speaker 2: The generosity of a stranger.
Speaker 5: As I just wish the person who donated that had
Speaker 5: some way of knowing how much it meant to me.
Speaker 1: And has that inspired you an to give to others
Speaker 1: during the holiday season?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it certainly has well.
Speaker 1: God bless you this holiday season and thank you for
Speaker 1: being a part of our program.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Tanya, Hi, thanks for calling. This is Delilah.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 6: Merry Christmas to you too.
Speaker 2: Tell me what your favorite memory or tradition is.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, it's a kind of both memory and tradition.
Speaker 6: When I was growing up, I have three younger sisters,
Speaker 6: I only grew up with two of them. But on
Speaker 6: Christmas Eve, actually Christmas Morning, we weren't allowed to get
Speaker 6: up and open presents until mom and dad were awake,
Speaker 6: but we were able allowed to get our stackings, so
Speaker 6: we would sneak out when it was still, you know,
Speaker 6: pitch dark, We'd sneak out grab our stockings. We run
Speaker 6: to the furthest bedroom so we couldn't you see the
Speaker 6: lights disturb anyone, and we would get all of our
Speaker 6: little We would get out of our stockings. It was
Speaker 6: usually like, you know, just earrings or hair bows or
Speaker 6: lit glass or the things that were the appropriate age
Speaker 6: for us at that time. But we did that for
Speaker 6: several years. They can't remember when we stopped, but it
Speaker 6: was something we did every year, and it was it
Speaker 6: was almost, you know, the exciting as the actual gifts.
Speaker 3: You see, I don't let my kids open the presence
Speaker 3: until you know we're up and ready to go either.
Speaker 3: But they do get to open their stockings. Okay, so
Speaker 3: but they don't have they don't take them to the bedroom.
Speaker 3: They just wait under the tree. But they make so
Speaker 3: much noise. They do this on purpose. They're like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just goofy noises. Like, Mom, you are
Speaker 3: not sleeping, get up now, right.
Speaker 7: Well, we tried to be.
Speaker 6: We tried to be you know, quiet, so mom and
Speaker 6: day I could sleep and and we.
Speaker 2: Know not my kids.
Speaker 3: They're like, yeah, if you're getting up, down mom, because
Speaker 3: we got presents to dig into.
Speaker 2: Right, And what do you do this Christmas? Now? Do
Speaker 2: you have family? Do you have kids?
Speaker 6: We get together with our kids in the morning and
Speaker 6: on Christmas Eve is usually it's with the rest of
Speaker 6: the family, of the extended families and it's not the fun.
Speaker 1: God bless you have a wonderful holiday.
Speaker 2: Hi is this Mickey?
Speaker 3: Yes, it is Hi Mickey.
Speaker 2: Happy holidays.
Speaker 7: Happy holidays to you too, Delilah.
Speaker 2: Tell me your story.
Speaker 7: It was when I was a kid, me and my brothers.
Speaker 7: It would be Christmas. We'd go to bed and we'd
Speaker 7: get up and I would I would wake them up
Speaker 7: at like one two o'clock in the morning, and we'd
Speaker 7: go downstairs and Sana had already been there with the
Speaker 7: gifts under the tree.
Speaker 3: And we wake up mom and dad at two o'clock
Speaker 3: in the morning.
Speaker 7: At two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: Ah, yep, Santa came early to your house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my folks were still up, you know, awaiting his
Speaker 3: arrival at two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 7: And anyways, so mom and Dad pushed us off to
Speaker 7: bed and told us we couldn't get up, and about
Speaker 7: seven or eight, so we thought, okay, so I'd go
Speaker 7: back downstairs and I set all the clocks ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how old were you?
Speaker 7: I was probably about nine ten.
Speaker 2: Years old, little precoc Yes.
Speaker 7: Yep, I was the oldest out of the three.
Speaker 2: And did they fall for it?
Speaker 7: They fell for it.
Speaker 2: Oh, Good for you.
Speaker 7: Yep. We'd get my mom's foster parents' house and it
Speaker 7: would be four or five o'clock in the morning, and
Speaker 7: my dad kind of looked over at us and we'd
Speaker 7: be sound asleep on the coach.
Speaker 2: Good for you.
Speaker 5: Yoh.
Speaker 2: Fun.
Speaker 7: I have to say, I love your show.
Speaker 3: So are you going to do something fun this holiday?
Speaker 3: Set the clocks ahead?
Speaker 2: Or are you at the age where you're like, huh uh,
Speaker 2: let me sleep.
Speaker 7: I have kids myself.
Speaker 2: And have they ever pulled mom's trick?
Speaker 7: I'd have to laugh about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, you have a merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: I'll be snoozing at two am.
Speaker 7: I hope, okay, alright, bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 1: I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
Speaker 1: much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
Speaker 1: more with you each weekday on Hey It's Delilaud.