Welcome back to Good Mom's Bad Choices. I'm Erica and I'm Mela. Hi. Hi, honey. Happy

hump day. Happy hump day. Oh my god. It's the end of the year. It's just the last

hump of the year. It's been quite a hump hasn't it? It's been hump-in. It's been

hump-y. Yeah. Up and down. It has, but I've loved it. And wow. I mean we made it.

Negally made it. Negally made it. We did. We did a lot of good things this year so.

How you doing today? I'm doing good. How was your Christmas? It was good. It was really,

you know, jolly the children, the one child who was happy. So I was like I was semi-organized

this year. I shopped one day before Christmas and I got her stuff and I almost wrapped it all

and then I got high. Lost the tape. I saw an austrogram. Yeah. That was really rooting for you.

I was like she's gonna find that shit in the morning. Still haven't found the tape.

It was it was two rolls. It's gotta be under the couch. I looked.

But yeah, it was good. I went to my baby daddy's family's house and you know it's jolly.

It's jolly. Yeah, same. I went to my mom's. I read, got everything she could have wanted.

I was really happy that she was really ecstatic about puppets because although I don't really

understand puppets, I mean I know it's like a sensory toy but it was more so that she's still six

because sometimes I look at her and like I'm like you are you need to relax.

And the fact that she was excited about puppets was like okay you're six.

You're so six. And also I'm happy to confirm. I don't even know if I'm happy to confirm this but

she still believes in Santa because I wasn't sure but she's still believing in Santa but then

I also feel really bad because I'm lying to her and like everyone is perpetuating this lie about

Santa and I just it's kind of fucked up. It's a little strange. Like it goes to the point like to

the point where like last year my dad had some strange man call her and act like. And I was like

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