Welcome back to what have you day three in the advent calendar.

Which basically means that we mean it guys.

We've overdone ourselves now.

Okay.

We all just hope we're not going to sort of fizzle

No, we're not we're not allowing that possibility. Okay, so December 3rd it's still

early enough in the season that you probably like I get have a hundred and twenty seven

thousand things that you think you ought to do during December and no particular

day on which you're going to do them right So instead you can build up a feeling of doom that everything

needs to be done. And this is why I am a big advocate of gather the family round, write out all of the foods, ask people what are the food things.

If you have savory things in your family that people really care about then do a savory like a like main dishes

seasonal stuff whatever and but I do it this for really what's more like the treats the

things that we think of as Christmas treats.

And what we do is write them all out and then each family member votes for their like top four things that they most want.

That's still a billion things in air reach.

No, it's not a...

Oh, because some of them double up.

Yeah, because what happens is that we may get like eight votes on something and it

has helped me to discern what are the things that my children and husband actually really care about because there are other things that we actually that we love

The end that we loved it when we did it, but we don't need to do it every Christmas or else we will be so sick of sweets or fat or whatever all of the above

Or it could be the sort of thing where you were sure that this was a tradition and it turns

out nobody nobody oh nobody cared for it nobody nobody don't you remember when I

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