Hello and welcome to the Storytime for grown-ups' Christmas Spectacular.

I'm Faith Moore, and for the months of November and December, we'll be reading A Little

Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

Each episode, I'll read one chapter from the book, pausing from time to time to give brief

explanations so it's easier to follow along. It's like an audiobook with built-in notes.

So gather your family together, brew a pot of tea or a mug of hot chocolate, find a cozy

chair and settle in. It's story time. Hello, welcome back. We are one week from Thanksgiving. I cannot believe it. The time is just flying by. I feel like I'm

on like Thanksgiving Watch. Like I'm counting down the days particularly because then we will really

be in the Christmas season. You know, we've had this free pass for a while and it's felt kind of

exciting and a little bit, I don't know, sort of clandestine, but very soon,

soon, my friends, Santa Claus will arrive at Harold Square at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,

and then all bets are off. It's Christmas from here on out. So I'm really excited about that,

and I'm really, I've really been enjoying this

kind of mini secret Christmas time, this early Christmas season with you. It's been lots and

lots of fun, even though I do have this really strict policy about Christmas. I do confess

that I have enjoyed doing this with you and I'm so happy to be here right now. So, since we are a week

away exactly from Thanksgiving, that means it's a Thursday. And in our calendar of fun,

exciting Victorian Christmas events, that means it's time to announce a new event. So we have

had the Christmas card exchange that I announced two weeks ago today,

and that is ongoing. So if you would like to send cards and receive cards to and from

Storytime listeners, then you can head on over to the drawing room and check out the announcements

channel, and all the directions for how to do that are there. I'm getting the cards. It's really

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