E262 IHOP
15 Minutes to Freedom
Ryan Niddel
3.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
When are pancakes not your ordinary pancakes? When you head to IHOP on Christmas Day. After forgetting our breakfast supplies at Lindsay’s parent’s house on Christmas Eve, Gianna’s choice was to head out for breakfast. Little did we know, this wasn’t such a novel idea. After spending almost two hours at IHOP something unexpected happened; a valuable lesson was learned by all. Listen to find out the gift that was received in the most unlikely of places.
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| 0:00.0 | The This is I-HOP. |
| 0:15.0 | This is 15 minutes to freedom. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm your host Ryan Nidell and today's episode is I-HOP. |
| 0:22.0 | Today's episode I'm going to share with you a lesson that I was |
| 0:28.2 | able to share with Jiana Christmas Day at IHOP. |
| 0:37.0 | So I don't know about you, but Christmas was almost anti-climatic for us this year. |
| 0:40.0 | This is the first year that Gna did not believe in Santa Claus, which is unique, right? |
| 0:47.0 | This is the fifth Christmas that I've got to spend with Lindsay and Gianna. |
| 0:51.0 | First, his husband and wife. But every year prior, Jana has completely believed in |
| 0:56.8 | Santa Claus, Elf on the Shelf, Christmas Magic, all those fun things. |
| 1:03.4 | This year was just not the same. |
| 1:06.2 | She just turned nine. |
| 1:07.8 | I've shared before, I believe that she's fairly advanced. And so she slept into like 930. |
| 1:17.0 | She didn't rush downstairs. |
| 1:19.0 | I mean she was happy, she was excited, right? |
| 1:21.0 | And we're very fortunate as a family where between Lindsay and I, |
| 1:28.3 | Gianna's father and Gianna's grandparents, |
| 1:31.1 | she admittedly would tell you she has everything that she would want and some stuff |
| 1:35.5 | she probably didn't even want. So even as we had asked her repeatedly for a Christmas |
| 1:41.0 | list it was pretty sparse. |
| 1:44.0 | I think that's a great place to be in. |
| 1:47.7 | For a child to have that level of self-awareness that they're not just asking for things to |
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