Hello, my friends, and welcome to Life with Sally podcast. I'm so glad you're here, so please make yourself a cup of tea and come on in.

Hello to you, my friends. This is Sally Clarkson, and I welcome you to my podcast and to December. We are already in December 2025. Can you believe it? I am sitting here in my kitchen looking on a stool on my high cabinet, and I'm looking out on the first real snow.

It's about, let's say, an inch and a half.

We're expecting five more inches in the next couple of days.

And I turned on my fire this morning and sat in front of my Christmas tree that we just decorated

and we have candles all over the room. We have little tiny treasures that we have collected

over many years. We do the same things every year. And I am just so happy. I'm just so grateful

for this season. And I hope that you are too. I know that

holidays can be such different times. And because we didn't have a lot of personal family involvement,

sometimes the holiday seasons when we got to the day itself, Thanksgiving or Christmas day,

we had to be really creative to kind of do

something different so that we felt like, oh, our family is complete just as we are. But, of course,

now the kids have grown, they've gotten married, I have grandkids, and it's just such a full-time

for me at this particular season.

But I've been thinking about all of you and praying for you.

And I just have to announce really quickly before I jump in.

I'm going to jump in quicker today.

We are having a real Christmas celebration tomorrow for my membership.

And it will be on Life with Sally, Life With Sally.com.

And we are happy to have those of you who aren't a part of the membership join in,

even if it's just for this month so you can become a part of our celebration.

We have movies and books and recipes and traditions and decorations and all sorts of things to share with you on our live stream at 6 o'clock mountain time tomorrow, December 2nd.

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