it reminded me of my ugly christmas tree does it look exactly like this no it's just the same cut in style but do you know about my early christmas tree i can't remember i got it last year i ordered it like i say like right after halloween it was like on the slowly obscure web site days before christmas i emailed them and i was like cancel it here and yeah i heard it from china and that's what i want it's the same company probably the same thing happened to me and then i was mad and i'm sending an e mail going you know if this is the kind of service that you're offering yeah i don't hold any mail to it took forever so i was surprised i could they even knew where it was i hadn't even opened it because that's how late it was you know so i never even more last year ok well remind the artist some time and it was funny because like of course they were from some obscure website and i had my pictures of me up on facebook wearing it and my girlfriend text me and she sent me a picture of her wearing the exact same one like same print like  last year some of them but that found some really different ones holiday traditions and other cultures ok a lot of hay or sing to me they are they are very interesting way to see what i'm going to do for the next show to see it's really weird ok so these are holiday traditions from other cultures all right this is finland ok finland visits the deceased ok not like this like a cemetery usually it says we spent christmas eve many of us in the united states singing carols looking at lights desperately shopping for last minute gifts traditions in finland however are quite a bit different do you think lay candles or lanterns on the graves of loved ones so i guess at first to kind of go like that i almost like halloween ishq but remembering those that are passed on so didn't you right we do that in church too but trash every i believe that's illegal in our area of the law to burn something every year around december seventh guatamala the ins begins sweeping their homes clearing out clutter and piling their trash and fire the place is a symbolic ritualistic way of cleaning out our clearing out negative energies and evil spirits once the blaze ties out the celebration begins so i guess you know i mean there's like new year's traditions of how this started like your new year to let the old you know and you know the so that's interesting i mean to hear it done for like a christmas tradition you know ok here's one you'll like knew you'd like that one this tradition began from a legend the tells of a poor family who grew a tree from a pine cone the children spent months dreaming up lavish ways of decorating it but unfortunately couldn't afford a single ornament this is in case you something have been your organ it on christmas morning the family woke to discover their trees decorated with beautiful spider web spun in silver and gold their tradition of adorning your tree in spider webs and spi ornaments continues and is considered to bring good luck to your family in the coming year all right well you know i don't know i do feel like i'm here for the township we have all kinds and we're spiders and i didn't already used to live and i say i don't know if it's because i maybe live more around here in the country yeah i do i just just saying that at home that i've seen more and different kinds of spiders and i've ever sleep bank ones i mean i swear i get like big spiders like in my garage in our days now i don't ship you live in holy when i live in the spider part there are days i want my kitchen on my kitchen counter that was like huge furry and spotted where the heck did that come from probably very lucky my house they did but they do that in germany and the the first child to discover the hidden the sexual gets a special little gift and for us it was maybe like next thing a candy or something really like that but here is my favorite are you ready this will be my last one ok japan yes what they do in japan this i find it extremely hard to believe never in a million years would i believe it or do i still ever never alright japan eats k f c and you know what that stands for kentucky fried chicken all right what a meal in one hundred seven no offense to kentucky fried chicken lovers it's just seems odd for christmas in one nine hundred seventy four k f c ran a promotion so this was only since one nine hundred seventy four the provided visiting foreigners with a christmas dinner in japan ever since that promotion it has been has become tradition for the japanese to eat k f c for dinner on christmas day their tradition has become so popular that customers are encouraged to place their order two months i'd like to hope so i would hope so like i like i hope that most things are closed on christmas so people so it's like thanksgiving i would hope that too for people and families to have their time together all right so on that happy c note well i wish you brought free samples because i'm kind of hungry well no i can't but you know what i did bring many of the countries are represented in this book so i want to welcome book but what a concept if somebody actually wants to like learn more about their traditions or even try one so you can let me know if you try the k f c one this christmas i'm hosting so i think you just plan my christmas well then you can come in here in find a japanese ornament to make to go with it are different crafts from around the world perfect take last year when we did this and had a similar you talk about different countries like the long tradition of oh yeah and i was out of town around christmas and the yule log was on the menu and i ordered one in your honor they did and took pictures of me i don't know if you remember me showing you pictures of my old dog i think i did it wasn't as good as i was to spank ok i made it so much better  started in the earlier two thousand so i want to say two thousand and seven is when it started when the elf on the shelf a book was released i meant to bring the article to reference it but i didn't so we're going to go to two thousand and seven and if i'm wrong woman who wrote the off on the shelf book wrote it as an empty nester her girls were going to move away or gone to college or whatever and she wrote it but they had an elf on the shelf that they did in their home and so they wrote this book based upon this tradition books there's all close loading and all kinds different things not only can you have your elf but you're also could have a pet can have all kinds of stuff so regardless if we have an elf on the shelf that also comes to our library and she's going to a home like most elves do this elf is a particular love of reading so she decides to visit the library and visit all the friends that come to the library so you do not need to have an elf on your home in your home because we have one in the library that you every day the entire month of december she up till christmas she comes of course she goes back to north pole at night when the library closes and she's reading a different book because she's a reader and if you come in find her any day throughout the month and see what she's reading now again you're not a lot of touch or because that would ruin her magic we had a instance of that at my house the else fell down and we had just a pope and pray that she could get  right so you can't touch her so find her right on the boat that she's reading and we had a really awesome holiday prize basket that we're flying off just for just for coming in and finding our elf so a lot of fun we are having a kick off party for that and begin  the end of november which this will air after that happens so but if you miss the party should be there every day the month of december so stop and you could come in every single day if you'd like to every day's a different chance as a matter of fact they've already been coming in they've already started this week and i had somebody come in this morning and say can we look for the elf on the shelf and i said after after the kick off your right hand and so it's starting to so we enjoy seeing which is going to read each day for sure so if picking the winner for that on the twenty second so you have from december first through the twenty second to come on and find her and then we'll be calling our winner on the twenty third so you can have your prize basket just in time for the holidays rice full of they are always want to win and they're so good they're fun ok holiday some time of course our favorite police officer in the universe we love them all we love them all here in peter's township but officer dave us and it's a little bit later than we like coming in this year because it was so well loved last year that he puts up this whole display in that big acrylic kind of guard around you know and it was so loved that it's broken so they're making new and trying to figure out a new way to to put it in there but it it's coming in it will be in our lobby  probably right after new years right so thank you actually read through officer dave but it's his involvement in the nisha it's the railroad model railroad club they have at the old venetia school where so moving on more holiday for holiday so magic treehouse a tree do the first saturday of every month will be also holiday themed during the reading christmas and camelot will be talking about that on since december second at ten so we they had a book read ahead of time if you can arrange a lot of really fun holiday activities to go along with that particular book or jack any go back and may find out that camelot isn't disarray and they have to save camelot  well we have the gingerbread bottle holder gingerbread man stud yeah exactly hopefully we were weren't sure on the timing of when this will be aired but if it's not if it's aired before  sunday december third it's the whole light up night in peter's township which is a big deal it's always the first sunday in church i mean for a show another tradition and we've made it a tradition in the children's department to make  gingerbread houses with the kids yes yes we put we have great help with the girl scouts they help put kits together for all the kids they could make and there are take them home and it's just a tradition that's awesome yes it's six o'clock the festivities begin with the mcmurry elementary choir coming and a lot of kids a lot of people as a matter of fact we received an e mail yesterday that apparently they are have they've been having sign up like for this at the rec center so we don't have sign up for this we just say come right the more the merrier for something like this you know until our gingerbread kits run out run out they had over so first come first or yeah because that's still a lot of you know that's a lot of kit so we usually have about a one hundred actually the be a little bit more ok so i had to beef up that milk carton order yeah and i'd go back either today or tomorrow and get some more carton right scratch jr i didn't bring any of the stuff to talk about it other then gave cal see a flyer about it on  monday monday the fourth it's the first like it's it's a code our coding program that's national the national hour of code yeah so they are like asking not just libraries but people all over whether it's schools or whatever to take an hour out of the day on that day and do throughout the week any day that week i think that the whole week for us that yeah for us it's that day it's ours is be like at four o'clock right after school and then there's one in the evening for i think just for adults or probably high school students about this coding this p b s scratch junior coding is for the younger  the younger set that we hope to get after school so that means when mcmurry lets out a little bit before four o'clock that they're going to come straight over to the library and stew some coding with me ok so much fun it's really it's really user friendly and the kids just love it it's a really great way to introduce the concept of kota yeah because i'm not you know you don't cut and i don't  texting but remember when we went to the seminar thing that we had to work together write a coding thing that was fun we did yeah that was a lot of fun so i was like of this is pretty cool yeah i can do this i can start with about a kindergarden level coding more than we can i can guarantee it yep yep so moving on to hungary edible holiday treats again another tradition we you know we have a good idea so we roll it and so on next fall thursday the seventh we're to be making a different three different holiday treats the be some lovely that you can either eat there or take home whatever you want to do are the ones going to be packaged and ready to be even given as a gift so you can even reuse it as a gift  she's going to give us any hint i have one and i know but that is all right it's the you know what the element of surprise is cool yeah you know because it's you know want to give it all away you know like showing your cards it's like know you come and see us and you'll find out that it's going to be on them and then after that we go into because you're doing that edible and i'm doing the ornaments you know the mine aren't edible so don't come to mine thinking you're going to eat there will be nothing to eat but we also will be making like you're doing for our three edible we will be doing three ornaments so the come in and you know have like station set up right they can and will extend their families a little centers and go around and make everybody gets to leave with three ornaments and those two have become traditions like you said it was you know with a gingerbread house as people come for that edible treats in the ornaments and i love that we do that and it's stuff that you know i think really great gifts to oh yes definitely well you know what else to for our little ones that aren't even in school yet that come with the family and it gives them an opportunity to make keepsakes right you know that they can have together so i like it yeah it's fun all right just in case i put the holiday hours and it's always nice to hear well because if you think you're on christmas eve christmas day new year's eve or new year's day you're coming to the library because you miss us and you just want to hang with the shannon and miss linda i'm sorry will be close yet so stock up on all your holiday books the movies bunch by the way our holiday movies have been on display the w after halloween if maybe an earlier than that earlier than that and going out like crazy so come and get your favorite holiday movies or find a new favorite we have all my god s collection holiday movies in peter's township and you know what atari i know i saw a cute thing on facebook like now we were close on black friday but will say like the best for black friday sales your library things to write for i saw on monday on cyber monday they said best cyber monday sale get free at your library right so there you go library everything's free start your own holiday traditions i know especially for new years like a holiday movie marathons a lot of fun for new years eve yeah so stock up on him that's right we will be with our family stocking about it and there is a really fun christmas scene in the movie actually lucas even had a one z involving oh well i don't think i haven't seen the movie so it was tina fey in it or she yes she plays school teacher ok but she wrote she wrote it and so they made a book about like based upon it so i haven't read the book yet but i'm excited i can tell there is going to be some different things obviously between the book and the movie however the presses as america i wonder what year we got to show how life has special note in it oh what oh yeah right cool this was actually oh we only have thirty seconds this was actually signed by the our the best christmas pageant ever the tween book group our book classic yet this is what we're reading so for december so grab it and yeah and yes i will loan you of course you can check out this copy of it but that's really cool yeah you never know who we're going to have who's going to sign what but the best christmas pageant ever barbara robinson just signed that december selection there yet with a lot of fun