54: Holiday Cheer

Christmas Eve traditions, people who have their life together, Brandon’s COVID vaccine experience, and listener Christmas traditions! SPONSORED BY BLUBLOX discount code JOY www.joyandclaire.com email: [email protected] instagram: joyandclaire_ Audio Length: 45:14 minutes  Joy: Hey guys, this is Joy. Claire: And this is Claire. Joy: And this is Joy and Claire. Merry Christmas Eve! Claire: Merry Christmas Eve! Joy: I wish I could sing a song right now, but that wouldn’t be fun for you.  Claire: Thank you. Joy: Thank you, thank you. Claire: I love Christmas Eve. Do you love Christmas Eve? Joy: I do. You know, I was thinking about Christmas Eves past, and I have this really great memory – I think so much of Christmas as an adult is being nostalgic about Christmas as a kid. Claire: 1000%. Joy: And also reliving it with your children. I was thinking about how we used to go to midnight mass. We would go to mass either on Christmas Eve, Christmas morning, or we would do midnight mass. So as we got older, we were like, “Let’s do midnight mass!” because we thought that was really cool that we got to stay up so late and be at church at midnight. I have memories of coming home and we’re all so tired and passing out and waking up in the morning and opening presents. But that feeling of going – it’s like what Casper would say about rituals. That is such a fond memory in my brain. Claire: Yeah, that’s a lot. Would Santa still come after you got home so late? Joy: Yes. Claire: Oh wow. Good for him. Joy: Yes, good for him. Warning alert, I’m going to say something in case there’s some kids around. Fair warning. Three, two, one. My mom would put the presents out and then she would bite into the cookie. So we went out, we were like, “Oh my gosh.” Claire: But at 3 in the morning she would do that? Joy: Right, totally. Claire: Bless your mom. Joy: I know, my mom’s the best. And we’d be like, “Oh my gosh, he bit into the -” whatever that we made, cookies or treats or whatever we made, but it was just so cute. Claire: She’s so cute. Warning over. So Miles, he just turned five. He is in prime Santa age, and it’s so fun. He’s so excited for Santa to come. We’re all very excited for Santa to come of course. Joy: Of course, we’re all excited. Claire: And he’s really excited. Last year, he had just turned four. He kind of understood about Santa but was just starting to get it. So this year is our first year of the Santa hype. Joy: Really getting into it, yeah, that’s really cute. Claire: And, you know, I’m kind of glad that we didn’t have to deal with the “let’s go visit Santa at the mall” sort of situation. I’m also glad that we hadn’t set that as a precedent, only not to be able to do it this year. So I feel for you families out there who that has been a big part of your tradition for your kids and you weren’t ab...