Welcome to Feathers My Hair, a teen mom deep dive podcast. I'm your host, Liz Bentley.

Hey, it's me. Oh my God. I still have not gotten totally over my cold, my voice, I haven't really talked yet today,

and this very scratchy voice coming out of me is kind of a surprise. That's not great. My stepdad

got really sick this week and totally lost his voice. Um, so is that happening to me? Let's hope not. Anyway, hi, everyone.

Oh, no. An Operation Santa update is that I've raised $5,600, which is just fucking incredible.

I've spent like 5,500 of that. Well, I've really spent about

5,000. I put 500 aside for shipping because there's a lot of gifts this year. I think last year

shipping was around 200 something. So I just put 500 aside because it will get donated, whatever I don't use. I bought

six kids' worth of gifts. I've been, I've actually, like, I'm so ahead with rapping. I'm so

proud myself. I only have two kids, like one family left to wrap, which is fucking awesome.

I hate wrapping gifts so much. I know for some people it's like meditation.

For me, it hurts. It physically pains me to wrap gifts. First of all, like hurts my back. I don't like

it. And I'm also, I'm like so bad at it. I'm not good at anything crafty at all. And wrapping just

goes in line with that.

They all look like shit.

Sorry kids.

Santa sucks at wrapping gifts is what I like want to write a little note in them.

But I've got basically everything that's on their wish list, a bunch of gift cards

of the parents.

Zachariah and Rubin's parent is getting $1,000 and gift cards.

If you read the letters, they are the two kids that had a really hard year. One was diagnosed

with autism. The other one is blind and will need a surgery soon. And so I figured their mom who I could tell their mom

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