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Hey guys, we are back on Normally, the show Normalish takes for when the news gets weird post- Thanksgiving, officially Christmas season.

I'm Mary Cavan-Hale.

I am Carol Markowitz, and I love Christmas. So I'm very excited

about this. Although, again, I think we talked about it on a previous episode where the lights are all

up all over South Florida since like, I don't know, Halloween. And the Christmas music at T.J. Max

is playing nonstop for the last month. So I'm very happy about all of that.

The Christmas, I don't know, people who hate Christmas, I can't even imagine who that might be,

might not be, but I can't get enough. Yeah. It's a good time of year. It is. And I usually start

around Thanksgiving week. I try not to do like beginning of November. Like let Thanksgiving have its moment. But, but we have officially moved on here and we have a tree. I love it. Amazing. About to be decorated this week. I also saw that you did a post over the weekend about saying no to Elf on the shelf. I really enjoyed enjoyed that, even though it doesn't apply to me.

Very much. They tried to bring it to Jews. It was like, I don't even know, rabbi on the whatever, I don't know, or like Shlomo on the, I don't know. But yeah, it didn't take. And there's no way I'd be doing that. It's like, and it's, the thing is it's not even, I don't particularly like Elf on the shelf.

And some people have issues with the big brotherism of it, of it all, because he's there, like watching your kids to make sure they behave and reporting back to an authority figure in Santa. However, I just think it's one of those things, like, I want an extra daily duty of making sure before my kids are up to, by the way, content

warning on this if you have kids listening.

Yeah.

But do I want that on my plate?

I'm doing plenty of Christmas cheer without that.

So just feel free to leave something undone.

You're bringing the magic in other ways.

I am fully with you. I, you know, it's cute. I like when friends post, you know, clever things that they do with their elf on a shelf,

but yeah, I wouldn't do either. Yeah. I appreciated that. I just, I over, I liked your overall point.

Saying no to children is okay. I like a lot of parents need to internalize that.

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