about the kids salute such a time of year that it isn't fun that is now we're very fast oh yeah ok we're we got a little bit more festive for the last show so here we are so we're have to add something else i know we're going to do the stuff around so ok all right are you ready sure we're just going to add a little maybe we'll do something at the end with them or you never know i don't know we're going to stand up and do jingle bells or some sure ok i've been listening christmas music all week in my house have you already oh yeah and i'm pretty sure listen my old brain i care you know we talk in here i can't remember you see today's i can't even remember anything so i think that's what we did because i was surprised that they came out with that yeah the  some it was which is going to talk about this last time we talked about you will log only one that i liked was the edible one right and talked about how they would stuff the tree into the chip into the learned that in greece that he's the patron saint of sailors you know that he comes up out of the sea and then he saves which is cool yeah that's really cool i did not know that before it was all good in the  favorite but remember when the little girl sat on santas lap and they started singing like center claussen you know and they were doing like she was speaking dutch yes and they said that heaven is in the newer version too which now is not new anymore that newer version was for it was oh wow ok well i'm getting old so anyway dutch children are told that he sails from spain on his feast day which is december fifth and they fill their shoes so the kids fill their shoes with hay and sugar for santas horse so i guess he was doing the horses back then not the r and then they all wait to find them the the hay and the sugar for the horses is gone and filled with gifts such as nuts and candy so it's a nice little sometimes sinterklaas i thought this was kind of funny because this would be this would be my luck with this at my house sometimes center clause a appears and person in the children's homes which would be cool right you'd be like you know if you've ever done that bearing a striking resemblance to the children's father or an uncle like if you were the kid would you be like a couple i was on them you know and he questions the children about their behavior during the past year in the past he carried a birch rawdon going to show a picture but these days he is more kindly people and he's tall and hold a special advent ceremony in which special horns are blown to chase the weight evil spirits and to announce the birth of christ horns our are homemade out of one year old saplings and are three to four feet long blown over wells they sound a deep tone similar to a fog horn yeah can you imagine wow here s that makes me want to sing that little i when i want to go home and watch that movie and i have one more quick little story about christmas in spain of christmas is a deeply religious holiday in spain  country's patron patron saint is the virgin mary and the christmas season officially begins december eades december eighth the feast of the immaculate conception it is celebrated each year in front of the great gothic called the it's called the dance of six so here look at the look at this cathedral very cool they do the ceremony in front of the cathedral so whoever that do here yeah it's likely to bring in some culture that is this is in then with that they they they celebrate in front of the that cathedral and then christmas yeah i know i got to work on my dora skills it's a time for family members to gather together to read joyce and feast around the nativity scenes that are present in nearly every home address traditional christmas treat is turkey on which is a kind of that is so while we have a moment before we switch gears here do you have any like what are your current christmas or that she always used to have turkey on christmas eve and ham on christmas day but that's changed justin's family has more to build traditions and my family did so they always do ham on christmas eve and then they do the new year's presell which is gross dinner tradition yeah what are you doing are you staying at your house we're going to my mom's so if she decides to cook that day as i said she it's not something specific we'll probably she probably make a hamm's we're probably going to pan two days in a row because we'll probably have him just well because i do turkey for thanksgiving i've always done and i think it was what i know that it came from having been married to an italian that christmas dinner is is usually  prime rib done like that like it english the old english european kind of meal and so i still carry that on i still do that you know and other things that go around with it but that's a time and cold just like the parasite underneath that's funny ok so winter programs winter oh my gosh we've been signing off already you know we sign up all through november we register all all the way up until the program is begin even past that we've never turned anybody down true but we we start the process early again it's not about limiting the number of people coming in we don't want to do that but it's helpful to have a head count for the craft the programs the sign ups are happening as we speak on the program start the week after new years so again you are a ninth and runs through march tenth so that's nine another nine weeks session and we have a lot of stuff i know i'm looking at the back of just looking at the back we've talked about you know some of these which this this episode may have come after but certainly not like the holiday train display oh yeah i'll be going on or else on the shelves you can come and find him any time reading a story again chance when a really fun christmas prize basket very good point hopefully maybe the family ornament night on december twelfth ye may or may not make it for that and good and can you believe that you know i look on this and miss lind she's too funny she already has something on here well i guess because this runs just about to st patrick's day get there i know it's miserable to go out it's miserable back up the kids it's miserable to work oh it's miserable to put on there but you know what once you get there immediate you have a nice program in a nice warm fun place and you can just stay you know well every year our local garden club donates a christmas tree to the library that we then raffle off as a fundraiser and this year and there always seemed and then you're the thing with mother nature so they w completely different way with it and they made the tree completely out of palettes so it's very interesting isn't a definition during the law to come into the library to see while you're there you should check out probably seventy five books just to help our circulation tree though that i was worried about when i was leaving work yesterday was walking out and there was a well i mean it's hard to you know you're trying to check out your books and you've got three children and they're kind of running around in the lobby and when we have a christmas tree or actually when we have any display you know the kids want they're curious and it's all good they're curious and want to go over look and the kids are going over and you know how when you send the picture you'll notice that you know some of the ornaments and things are set gently like on these pieces of the palette in the one little one and i'm like oh be careful honey i'm trying to be really nice you know and going over there wanting to just start grabbing all the toys off the thing and i guess it wouldn't be and it's not any different than having the traditional look you know a tree where the kids are going to want to pick off the ornaments and look at all the beautiful things so i get nervous but it's all good it is different it's you know it feels like you know how everybody's into it like going green and recycling and all that that's kind of what it reminds me of yeah it's interesting yeah it like really cool way to teach kids computer programming with robots and they are programmed with almost like graph paper that you can color in and the different colors will tell the kids or tell the robotics easy which direction to take and we're going to be having some really fun programs of that as peter our local or our in house tech guy who runs our maker space for us he's going to be helping us with this program so you can come and learn about the oh but some of this is something you'll need to register for because we only have a limited number of robots to use so we can only take a certain amount of students for this program to make sure and it is geared towards like tweens and teens ok yes a little older you're right not suggesting please do not bring your preschooler or not i would say like ten and up ok yeah well that would make sense you really want them to learn and really want t be able to enjoy it and do it you know i was was while you were talking about it it made me think about you know we've talked about doing maker space mondays very you know and having the tweens and maybe we should define what the tweens are again because it's kind of this new word kind of a speech and you just said like third through sixth grade yeah being used like in the library lingo to to  put an age like a group together of that age that kind of doesn't fit there to to do the teenage programs that they're jeweled for the story time exactly exactly so with that in mind we've been trying to come up with like some interesting ideas get them walkin over to the library for mcmurry or the middle school and we're talking about maker monday and where they can walk over after school and try some of these different things each week will be a different theme we don't have it you know just kind of winging it computer reads it like like you're just doing a keyboard and you pull it off you know on your thing and you're playing you know bananas but i wanted to tell you real quick so what we do and stuff and i it had to be something that you had to teach teachers ok and you had to do the lesson plans and that you know come up with the standards that it meets and probably so i thought i'm going to teach them how to use making make these in the classroom how they could do it in the classroom i had to do a slide show so i did that and plus the whole report and everything i was really nervous about it too by the way i did well as a straight a student over here i it i was happy but i was really specific myself when i saw my grade but anyway i was playing with it again though because we have a making making and i took it home and i'm like you know tim's looking at me and i'm plugging that little the alligator clips into the bananas and then i tried a whole nother program because i was doing the that the keyboard so i'm playing doa dear heart and soul and all the star chopsticks on on the bananas but then they have another one where it's been an a or they have one another program did this make you make with bongos so then i just connect everything and then i only have my two bananas because i only got the bananas i mean you could do with anything i know you've pla plug it into fruit or your head or whatever i don't know so all the sudden i was there and i'm doing like the bonga was and then i'm over here then i want the piano and then like wow you could like if you had it all set up you could have a home making ma they're making mekhi that way like there is the a button the b button the air is a downer the design a video game that the kids could actually play by touching like it was not like oh yeah i don't know they'll ever happen in our library so i'm not really that advanced yeah i was really cool with the making making it while i have been really trying to study all of this stuff like i love the oh the robots and all that that because i think number one i find it fascinating number two i really do want to learn how to do it to be able to promote it and i did that and the one that you're talking about at the were was that at the carnegie library they do happen where you can set all this stuff up with the making make these yeah and use them as game controllers and all of this so you could be doing your champion chess player here in peter's is coming and helping kids learn how to play chess mr payne he's wonderful he's such a nice guy and he is loving doing this china he came in about to say a couple weeks ago i talked to him briefly and i talked to him about perhaps adding another night and thought well let's look into the new year and see how it goes but he's enjoying it these children are learning so that we're able to pass that on and the children can come and learn how to play chess from a champion for free as well i mean a lot of play places you pay for stuff like that for sure yeah so here is a good guy and then with the holiday season and we're going to for you know to to check out but on this airs it will be by the time oh that's true by the time it airs this will be ready for check out you know that i mean way before this airs but anyway it's called it boy called santa claus by matt haywood called christmas i mean do you know what i'm going a boy called and then look on the back what was santa claus well yeah so i'm going to avoid called santa this is his version of the story of what he would be like as a child do you things you should know about santa claus he was once a kid just like you his name was nicholas and they spell it and i k o l e s but his parents called him christmas he had only one toroid this cracks me up he had one toy a doll carved out of a turnip oh lovely bestial and he was happy with this turnip and this impolite that he led with this father and till something terrible happened something that sent nicholas on a quest all the way to the north pole over frozen lakes and snow capped mountains to the magical village of elf home as nicholas faced off against elves and trolls and pixies and made lifelong friends with this surly flying reindeer he was transformed from an ordinary boy into a big hearted chimney live through that i love stuff yeah yet he believed in the impossible and one of the reviewers said the most evergreen immortal christmas story to be published for decades and that a boy called christmas very cute eyes well i have one christmas story too this book came out a couple years ago it's actually a series of short stories  maureen johnson and lauren myracle and it's cool because if you like when i first picked this up i didn't have time to read the whole book and i'm a huge john green france and i was in the see what he has to say so i just read his part which was they all kind of connect because the snowstorm they one brave soul ventures out into the storm from her standard train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives over the next three days one girl takes a risky short cut with an adorable stranger three friends book you know i have you know we're always reading books and i always have one in our car and stuff and i need i need a new one for mike and i don't that's a good one that we should actually yes and the and i be calling it done because it has three different they probably read by three different actors that would be good i will yeah let's look into that because i need one all right i know where rats ended up we were going to try to read a story but when i don't think we really have time but we could at this point do you have any good holiday wishes for our friends like wish everybody a very happy holiday that said merry christmas happy hanukkah happy kwanzaa happy what ever it is that you and your family celebrate yes for the holidays as i was saying all the missile and i thank you and then come to the library and check out all of our wonderful holiday things and we'll see you in the new year and i wish everybody health and happiness sounds good to me and we go happy holidays that's right that's gotta love