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Hey, you guys, this is Josh. And with Hope Steady family and welcome to this week's

episode of the pantry chat food for thoughts.

This week we're going to be talking about how to keep the holiday season sane and we're

back here laughing because at this moment our house does not feel

sane and we feel very unqualified to be talking about we have no clue so so this is an

exploratory discussion no we're having a big piemaking day upstairs with a lot of young ladies enjoying themselves making pies and they're right over ahead.

Which is great. It is good holiday cheer, but along with that, there's all kinds of other things.

We got four inches of snow last night and things have to be plowed.

And you're not exactly dressed the way you're normally dressed.

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