Hey guys and welcome to the Moms a Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa. Hi Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing wonderful. How are you? Good. Mandy, we forgot the bells again. Oh, my goodness. How could we forget the bells? Well, I know how. It's just been a very busy week. I'm sorry. Bells took a back seat this week. I want that on a shirt'm sorry bells took a back seat this week i want that on a shirt

bells take a back seat this week um i get it but it's funny as soon as you said hey guys i was like

we forgot the bells we forgot the jiggle bells yeah oh goodness well um things are heating up no they're not

they're cooling down um but things are heating up. No, they're not. They're cooling down. But things are heating up. Life is heating up, right? It's getting busy. We've been talking about this. Everything is in overdrive right now. Yes, it is. We are on the complete March to Christmas. And my kids are very excited. I'm excited. I love Christmas. But then I also feel like it comes up so fast

and I just wish I could enjoy it more. So I'm trying to this year. I'm trying to enjoy the days leading

up to Christmas. So I actually feel like I got something out of it this year. I appreciate my kids

being consistent with the things they want for Christmas. that would be really helpful if whenever I say,

so when you say you want this, is this what you mean? And they're like, no, no, no, that was last

week. What I'm thinking now is. I'm like, what? No, stop. This is on sale this week. Please.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, my kids have done that to me. And now I have two brand new pairs of shoes

that are supposed to be Christmas presents. and they have now told me they want different shoes instead. So I'm like, oh my gosh, crap, I have to take these shoes back and I have to go get the right shoes. And yeah, so it's it's fun. It's fun. It is. Yeah. So, well, well, it'll be here before we know it. We'll enjoy it, right? Yes. We will. Yes. I always do. I love

Christmas. Yeah, it'll be fun. We're starting to decorate tomorrow. Are you already decorated? I feel like you're

decorated. No, you're not. No, I normally would be decorated, but I don't know what happened. I didn't have a

chance to do it this past weekend.

And now we won't be in town this next weekend. And then I am going out of town the following weekend to see my family in New York. So I have no idea. I'm sure we'll get around to it when we get around to it. You know, I'm not going to not decorate. No. I can't imagine. If you ever told me you weren't decorating for the holidays this year, I would consider that like a point of making, yeah, an intervention. I wouldn't know what for, but I'd be like, we have to stage an intervention. Something that's not right. Yeah. Yeah, no, I will be. You know, I always get a real tree. I love doing that. So I am looking forward to doing that soon.

You're such a good mom.

I just don't know when.

I have a fake one. I don't care for the needles. I do not do it for them. I don't do it for them. I do it for me. Oh, well, I don't even like myself that much. so I'm like, no, I'm just going to.

It's fine.

I know it's not real.

I can pretend it's real.

I can look at somebody's pictures on Instagram and pretend that's my tree. But I'll know. I'll know. Just, yeah, just light and evergreen. I'll look at yours. Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. All right, Melissa, are you ready to get into the episode this week? Let's do it.

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