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Mary Christmas.

How many of you like Christmas is a big holiday for your family and you make a big deal out of it?

How many of you you don't make a big deal out of Christmas?

Ah, cool. Yeah, shame on you.

It's kidding.

My family's always made a big deal about Christmas even when we didn't have any money.

I remember in Weaverville, we had lots of tight years. Wintertime was our tightest time of

years so Christmas came on the wrong time of year for us and I remember this one year where we

literally had no money and we had a few presents on the trees that Kathy kind of made things for

the kids and you ever decorate your tree with popcorn? So you decorated our tree with popcorn and

of course we lived in the woods so we had a tree and on the 24th of December the pizza parlor,

the local pizza parlor in town called us and said can you come down to the pizza parlor?

Mike. Okay, so we went down the pizza parlor and Kathy had put one ticket in to win this

adventure game, the full professional size arcade game and she won it with one ticket on the 24th.

Yeah, so we brought that home kind of wrapped it up for our kids and yeah and our youth group doubled

in size because of that adventure game and you know we can never get kids to come early to youth

group now they were like an hour early to every youth group meeting so that's just the way God

provide it but we got you know we're doing a lot better now so Kathy's gone crazy and the kids

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