Hello friends, welcome!

So glad you're here.

And if you've tuned into our Thanksgiving episode a few weeks ago, you heard me share the origins

of some pretty quirky White House tradition.

So let's keep going!

We'll learn about how a few of our presidential families have influenced different types

of events and customs during the December holiday season.

I'm sure I'm a big fan.

But here's where it gets interesting.

The author Louise Littleton Day Fest wrote the following little description.

The greatest fun was yet to come.

Throw a snowball and outpop a delightful piece of candy called a French pop kiss.

After supper, the snowballs were distributed among the children, armed with their share

of snowballs, the children raced around the room, pummeling guests with popping balls.

When the snowballs hit their target, they exploded and there was a wild scramble for the

candy.

Well, it sounds like a manufactured scene out of a cheesy Christmas movie.

What Louise was actually describing in her book, Snowball Fight in the White House,

was the epic children's party that you guessed it!

All take care of yourself, Andrew Jackson.

Through for his thesis and nephews, in December 1835, in the White House's East Room, the

snowballs were made out of cotton.

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