Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Farray, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.

So today, it is Christmas Eve, and today we want to share what our families are doing this Christmas Eve and on Christmas

Day with all of you. So it's almost as if we are bringing you into our homes and celebrating

this holiday with all of you. I'm so excited for this episode. But first, let's share a time-sucking

hurdle from Julie. Julie says, this is a time-sucking hurdle from Julie. Julie says,

this is a time-sucking hurdle that I'm worried will happen even though it hasn't happened yet.

I'm intrigued. I know once I get into holiday mode during winter break, it is hard to break out of.

I get so used to relaxing and spending time with my family that I don't

want to return to school. It always takes a lot of motivation for me to start working on school

stuff again once Christmas is over. Been there, done that, Julie. Absolutely. So here's what we want

you to do. We want you to relax. We want you to grab some hot

cocoa, whatever it is that you're drinking and get into that festive mood. We're going to invite

you into our family because we do, really do think of you as our family now. You are our

top teacher family and we want to share this holiday season with all of you.

All right. I'm so excited. We're going to start. I'm so excited. I feel like I want Christmas music. I need

like bells. Maybe I will try to find a sound effect and insert it into the podcast right here.

Okay.

Let's start with Christmas Eve because, you know, that's today.

That comes first.

I'm going to start by kind of going through what I do for Christmas Eve.

Obviously, Billy and I have no kids so we can do whatever we want

on Christmas Eve, which is really nice. We're trying to enjoy this as long as we can because we know

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