Holiday Road

Norah and Dad discuss their favorite holiday traditions and ruin Santa for those who still believe.

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Dad: 0:00

Hey,

Norah: 0:00

Hi, dad.

Dad: 0:00

what do you wanna talk about today?

Norah: 0:02

I want to talk about holiday traditions. See, I'm not going to do something more with this week. No car accidents. So what kind of holiday traditions did you have growing up?

Dad: 0:27

I mean, Not much. We lit the menorah, the one thing I remember doing every year that we do as a family now, which is we would pick a night and we would drive around and look at holiday lights. Because even though, I was raised Jewish, I love the Christmas lights and so we would do that once a year. And then when I was little, like, Little little like 4, 5, 6 years old. my grandma, Annie. She didn't drive, but we would hop on the bus and go into downtown Philadelphia. And we would look at the holiday lights. in center city, Philadelphia. What are you looking forward to between now and Christmas?

Norah: 1:07

I like Christmas lights. That's probably one of my favorites. Um, I like going downtown. I think we did that lash to here maybe the year before. I don't remember. We went downtown and we looked at the lights. That was really fun. Um, well this isn't like us, like a family tradition, but, uh, um, the school I go to every year, we do something called holiday project where the entire K through 12 community comes through. And we get to, like, now that I'm in high school, I'll get to be paired up with a elementary student and we get to go do fun things all day. Um, we also had to help the community a lot, so we raise enough cans and money for like families and need to have food for like six months, I think, six or eight months. so that's something I always look forward to. It's a really good way to end the year at school.

Dad: 1:56

You know, what I like in our house is that, and it's something that your mom and I started when the first year we met is that, we, buy ornaments every year for the tree and every, so we give each other in order meant that has like something of meaning to the other person. And our tree now is full. We used to have like, just like gold balls and. Stars or whatever. Yeah. Filler ornaments, but we don't need those anymore. you know, your mom and I have been together for 20 years, times two, and then you and Donovan add on. So we have, I don't know, over a hundred ornaments that are just like special to our little family unit. And so the tree is like a little. Memory tree now. And every year we bring the box upstairs and we take the ornaments out and we can look back and say, oh, this was one of the 17 bus, late years that your brother got, or this was when you were in your like crazy Disney princess

Norah: 2:50

Oh, now we're going to mention the Elmo.

Dad: 2:53

Uh, well, there's, there's a lot, there's a lot of Elmo ornaments, from Nora's deep, dark. Elmo phase. They're ours. There's a lot of, uh, there's a lot of princess ornaments from your heavy duty Disney princess phase. Yeah.

Norah: 3:09

Yeah. There's, There's, a lot of Disney ornaments. Cause we have couple star wars ones. We have Marvel ones. My favorite is the one year that you and mom got each other, the exact same ornament.

Dad: 3:20

with.

Norah: 3:20

And now we have, yeah.

Dad: 3:21

We have to, yeah, we have to, we have to ant man on the

Norah: 3:23

And we put both of them up every year.

Dad: 3:25

Yeah. Two ant man. One wasp.

Norah: 3:26

That's a fun tradition. I'm trying to think of other ones. Well, we always go over to not grandma's house anymore, but like in Kathleen's house, that's always really fun to see everybody. Cause that's like the one time we get togethers, either Thanksgiving or Christmas, depending on everyone's schedules.

Dad: 3:41

Yeah, big family, hard to get together. So. it's always nice around, we see each other a lot around this time of the year, starting, at Thanksgiving and then carrying through Christmas. We always do Christmas. PJ's on Christmas

Norah: 3:52

Oh, yeah. How could I forget?

Dad: 3:54

everyone gets, new. PJ's on Christmas Eve and we do the big breakfast on Christmas morning. And. We try to let you have you let your mom and I sleep in past like seven

Norah: 4:05

Seven. Oh yeah. Donovan and I, my brother, we always have sleepovers. We've been, I don't know how long you've been doing it very long time, but we, um, like for pretty much all of winter break, we sleep in the same room cause he has a bunk bed and we just like, hang out

Dad: 4:24

We also.

Norah: 4:25

YouTube.

Dad: 4:26

We also have, for any parents listening will sympathize with my pain of the elf on the shelf and the, uh, just awfulness that goes along with having to move those things every

Norah: 4:40

I did it last

Dad: 4:41

single night. Okay. So, I'm in the study, the door's closed. Your brother is downstairs on his computer

Norah: 4:49

Oh, we have tell Donovan not to listen to

Dad: 4:51

With his, with his head set on. And so he can't hear me. Do you think Donovan still believes in Santa Claus? Like

Norah: 5:01

We have this conversation in

Dad: 5:02

Yeah, I know, but what's the, what's the over-under like, he's

Norah: 5:06

I dunno, he doesn't talk to me about this. I'm assuming he still does.

Dad: 5:09

do you think he's holding out? Like, because he's afraid he won't get gifts.

Norah: 5:13

I don't know.

Dad: 5:14

not on the Santa train anymore.

Norah: 5:16

Mine got ruined in second grade.

Dad: 5:18

How did your Santa get ruined?

Norah: 5:20

Uh, I got a Lego set and it was missing a piece. And this was a, this was like a motif that happened with almost every single Lego set I'd ever gotten for

Dad: 5:28

And was this w was, was this a Lego set that Santa brought you.

Norah: 5:32

uh, I don't remember maybe. Um, but it also got an, a. that year, like a paper white Kindle so I could read it. So I was really into reading. and I was crying because my Lego piece was missing something. I remember mom walking downstairs very loudly on the phone and she was talking to grandma on the phone, how I was ungrateful that I got a Kindle and that's why I was crying. and that you guys had spent a lot of money on that, but Santa was supposed to have given that to me. and I was upstairs listening to that, that ruined Christmas room.

Dad: 6:07

Christmas was ruins. It is as someone who did not grow up with Santa Claus, it's a lot of fun too. have seen that through your eyes. but then it gets like exhausting and as like, you guys get older and the gifts get bigger because you want nicer things. You want like an electric guitar or you want, uh, whatever. Yeah, it sucks that Santa gets the glory for those really good gifts and we get nothing. So it's better now that, we get the accolades for the, oh, that was so thoughtful of you. Thank you so much. Anyway, another tradition. Go ahead.

Norah: 6:54

um, for people who don't know what castle Noel is, it's in Medina,

Dad: 6:58

It is in

Norah: 6:59

it's a Medina and. We normally go every year, but with COVID we didn't, did we go last

Dad: 7:05

New. I'm not walking

Norah: 7:07

We went a year with masks. I feel did we,

Dad: 7:09

Nope, no

Norah: 7:11

Nevermind. We

Dad: 7:12

No chance. I'm not doing that during COVID pre COVID and post COVID. it's a wonderful Christmas museum

Norah: 7:18

Yeah. So basically it's this dude and he looks like Santa. Um, and is it his last name? Claus.

Dad: 7:24

his name is mark clause. He says, I think it's BS, but he says his name is mark clause. If

Norah: 7:28

he's a very lovely man.

Dad: 7:29

You seem very nice. And I read like your museum, but I do not believe for a second that your name is actually cloth,

Norah: 7:35

and they have any Christmas memorabilia you can think of. They have a bunch of stuff for movie sets. all of like the shop windows in New York city, they have stuff from that. it's super fun. And they have a Santa Fe. The, the, um, what movie is that from? Is it

Dad: 7:50

The slide from a Christmas story is at the end of that. And you go climb up the mountain and see Santa, and then you get to slide down the slide.

Norah: 7:56

There are a lot. They're a lot nicer than they are in the

Dad: 7:58

Yeah. They don't kick you down with appeal in your face as right as you clean up. Asking for your BB gun? Uh, no, it's a great place. Just, you're in tour groups it's just very tight quarters in a lot of those rooms. that's a tradition that might have to wait until 20, 22 Christmas. Before we, before, Hopefully, before you take off for college, we'll be able to go visit castle Noel.

Norah: 8:24

I love castle now. It's so fun.

Dad: 8:26

yeah, it's a lot of things we've had to kind of put pause on since COVID and that's definitely one of them, it stinks, but I'm looking forward to having some time off with you as another nice tradition we have over the holidays is that you're not in school for some of

Norah: 8:42

yeah, two and a half weeks.

Dad: 8:44

And so it's lovely just to, and I usually take a couple of weeks off at the end of the year, so it's lovely just for you and I to, and your brother, uh, just to hang around the house and do a whole bunch of nothing. So I'm looking forward, I'm looking forward to that as well. Well, Nora, nice topic. I appreciate the conversation.

Norah: 9:03

Thank you. Yeah, I don't know.

Dad: 9:05

It's better than you dreaming of me, wrap my car around a pole. So this

Norah: 9:08

not dreaming

Dad: 9:09

was, this was, a much, more pleasant conversation.

Norah: 9:11

It's not going to be like a call back every single week.

Dad: 9:14

I think I'm going to grade every episode on a, is it better or worse than dad wrapping his car around a pole?

Norah: 9:20

Okay. Well, I'll think of the topic for next week. I'll keep that in mind,

Dad: 9:25

Sounds good. if people want to find you online or where do they find you?

Norah: 9:31

nor Emory music, Nora, with an H. So don't, don't forget that

Dad: 9:36

And that's where that's Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, YouTubes. Tick-tock

Norah: 9:43

I think it exists. There's nothing on.

Dad: 9:45

ah, ha.

Norah: 9:46

Same with Twitter. It exists, but I've never put anything out there.

Dad: 9:50

And as far as the podcast, you can find us everywhere, not everywhere. Most places at Nora and dad show, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, If you have a future topic, you would like me and Nora to discuss, you can try us at Nora and dad's show@gmail.com and perhaps most importantly, do us both a favor and whatever app you are using to consume this episode, hit that subscribe button before you, close out the app so that this will show up, uh, in your queue. every week. Any parting words? No. Before we leave for the week,

Norah: 10:33

you're such an influencer. It's not expecting

Dad: 10:35

I'm such an influencer how am I an influencer?

Norah: 10:39

Very good at this.

Dad: 10:40

Oh, geez. Well, thank You very much.

Norah: 10:42

You forgot one thing though, they got to write five stars,

Dad: 10:44

Uh, yes. And please, uh, if you can drop a review, see, I'm not that, not that

Norah: 10:48

even if you hate it has to be faster.

Dad: 10:51

even if you hate it. Nora says it has to be five stars. Nora, thanks for the conversation. This was a lovely as always. Love you.