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Hello and welcome to this episode of Share Your Hotness. You may have noticed that it's a little bit shorter because we are going through a little bit of a transition. Okay, it's a big transition, new production company, all of that. And sad to be leaving working with Van Garrett Media. They've been amazing and I'm thankful to them for how far they have gotten us, and they are going on to some bigger and better opportunities than helping me along with sharing the Hotness podcast. That being said, I thought we just keep it short and remind you of the Christmas season and what a joyful thing it is and hope that you are having time with your loved ones. If you're like me, you're probably cooking as you listen to this. That's when I do a lot of my podcasts, especially us ladies at Christmas Time, my Favorite Christmas Memory. And I hope that my sharing this will help you think about some of your favorite Christmas traditions and maybe how you can bring those into this season. When I was young, we actually grew up in a pretty wealthy neighborhood, but we were not you know those stories where the kids say, everyone, we grew up poor, but we didn't know we were poor. It's because everyone in their neighborhood was poor. And maybe that one wealthy family, but we were the one or two. Three. There was about three families that struggled financially, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say we were the one that struggled the most in our neighborhood, but there was a neighborhood of some pretty amazing incomes and some amazing people that gave a lot as well. And almost every Christmas that I can remember, there were packages and baskets of food dropped off. It was the time of year that was the hardest for my dad because he moved and set up mobile homes. And not everybody wants their home. Their mobile home moved in the depth of winter. People want to be settled at Christmas, so resources were always very scarce at Christmas time. My parents, we had a Shetland pony that we rented out to a petting zoo, if I know the story correctly. I'm not really sure where Cricket, the Shetland pony, lived most of his days, but at Christmas time, he was magically transformed in our minds to a donkey. And it was myself or my sister. She lived with my grandparents, moved in with them when she was 13. So I was eight. So it's pretty much me from when I was eight on to be married. But I would dress up as Mary and one of my brothers would be Joseph or my dad, and that would be the donkey wrangler as well. And we would have two or so wise men and the shepherd. Or we never quite had the full three wise men, but we always had at least a representation of each of the groupings. And we were dressed up in very bad outfits. And I know they were bad because I've inherited the costumes. And it was a bathrobe with Mary with some blue material to wrap around. And you wrap that around the baby Jesus, which was my little brother until he was about five, because then we were like, yeah, this is when Jesus is coming back from Egypt. And then it would be a doll. And we would go around to every single home in our congregation and sing to them. Now, you think, wow, these bad outfits, the magical donkey. They must have been amazing singers. No, actually, we were probably one of the least musical families in our whole neighborhood. But we would go to be going to every single home in our neighborhood and our congregation, and this would be oh, man, I wish I'd looked this up before, but I'm guessing 100 plus homes. And we would go to the school teacher and we might go to the friends, different people, but we would just go every single night in December from December 1 to December 25 to December 24. We would go sing in our terrible costumes and our donkey and our terrible singing voices, but people loved it and they would be like, oh, good, now we can start Christmas. And it's really one of my favorite memories of childhood because it focused our family on what we could give instead of what we could get, because we weren't going to get a lot that we could predict, but we could give even our awkward songs, even our silly costumes, we could give what would be for people. When I run into people from the old neighborhood, they still mention how much they loved our family coming around and singing Silent Night in a little town of Bethlehem and We Wish you a Merry Christmas. That was our repertoire of songs. So with that I wish you a Merry Christmas and hope that you were surrounded by those that you love. And I look forward to the relaunching with the new production company that I'll have behind me as we look forward to a year of your stories that you will be sharing and the stories that will be shared here on Share Your Hotness. And thank you so much for this little brief allowance with me. Sharing, sharing my Christmas memories.