a little kind of a fuzzy brush if your sense of a library i miss shannon and i miss linda and we're here to give you all the information from our library to yours right into your living room on this cold cold week it is we have to admit because one day they'll figure it out we you know we don't these just you know maybe a week or so before they everything starts airing and it was seventy degrees it was like snow and now it's you know i think my my ther my car said like twenty seven yes morning minus thing but yeah too cold and now it's called ok before we go any further though you know as i know you're going to want to do around the world news and everything so because this is add that was your idea because i have the same ideas to what same ideas are talking about stuff that we're doing for christmas too and i brought some really special ideas did to set a surprise or we always surprise each other we know ok so we have to start we have to be festive i mean we are pretty festive i like your earrings we've got the earring we've got the tops but we'll just finish it off i'm going let you start with pink because that your favorite color we'll have to swap it out for next time so let's get festive you know what this one might be like i was going to bring i have a mickey mouse one i think this is a small head one my head or you have a big well only if there's like a lot of brains so here we go but your christmas around the world fun and we are going to i should do this one first i just bought some like little blurbs of you know what they do around the world so i'm printing these out on my printer last night oh i mean three weeks ago when we had this all play and right now we prep three weeks and some printing this out last night i just want to show you so here's something between my puppy and my bird to the right is what it would come out looking like so let's just start with that one it's just i have some small little tidbits of information from christmas around the world so this happy piece of paper is about christmas in greece and see i should have even taped it together but i just thought it was too much fun to show so in greece saint nick saint nicholas of course and of my son's name is nicholas we just do our stockings we get something special in our stockings are you into saint nicholas bring something special in this in our stockings oh good because i brought a stocking i'll send it to your house so i'm going to show that later i don't want to give everything away so i say nicholas is unimportant is important greece he's this surprised me though the patron saint of sailors oh i didn't know that well so like different there are different  countries celebrate st nick you know in different ways st nick in like italy i believe in some other patron saint of sailors and never never would have guessed at so according to gre tradition most of this is how the how he looked his clothes are drenched with brian his beard drips with seawater and his face is covered with perspiration because he has been working hard against the waves to reach sinking ships and rescue them from the angry sea green ships never leave port without some sort of saint nicholas icon on board and to the members of the eastern orthodox church as are most greek christians that's what they do they all have some little token that somebody else  ok so that's christmas in greece all right i'll do one more short one this one will be funny because i have a picture if i can find the exact story for it so i love that you know do you eat special things you like you'll love when you look up the pictures you know you see a fire in the fire so christmas but that's not the cob going to show you the kind of yule log i want christmas it's christmas in scandinavia it is from scandinavia that most of our yule lo traditions derive the dark cold winters inspired the development of traditions concerned with warmth and light you'll tide means the turning of the sun or the wind winter solstice and it's been traditionally been  of extreme importance in scandinavia a time when fortunes for the coming year were determined when the dead were thought to walk the earth and for a long time it was considered dangerous to sleep alone on christmas  carefully chosen and brought into the house with great ceremony so they brought in the whole tree see i'm picturing the roots and everything but it's probably like sounds dangerous the pot and would be placed into the hearth ok so picture it while the rest of the tree stuck out into the room the tree would be slowly fed into the fire and the entire process was carefully timed to the last day at a time and yeah and just to slowly push it in there it's beautiful yeah yeah how dangerous does that sound oh i w yeah i hear you oh my god it's like a turducken thanksgiving you know how we can stop that well then all you need is  the size of that stuff yeah my stepmother gave that to me like years ago i it's her yeah i've never really used it but now that you say that you got all those extra presents a church house to hang this up for me sure that your first which is this is we're having a huge party in elf on the shelf kickoff party we're going to have a photo booth you can get your own photo printed on we're going to have crafts and games a dance off and then we're going to watch elf on the shelf and read out on the shelf of course and then to welcome our library else that comes and visits our library every day in the month of december so that's would be the first day that the elf will be there and then following that every day through december twenty second whenever you come to the library fun tradition it is fun the kids are already i would never tell you a lie there was a grandmother and i think it was last week that came in and actually asked she  saw the sign of all the things coming up and asked about did it start yet yeah you know they're already done for the elf and see what they're reading and you know you do the slips and you fill it out at that's going to be so much but as a matter of fact township officer day coming he comes every year to the library and brings the children's department a train and every year it's a little bit different he's part of the i think it's called the  so then because of that he loves to put trains together and you know promote the love of trains etc etc so he once again will be setting up a train for us in the library this year because of everything that we have going right while in particular somebody became a famous star at the library and took up all the space where the train would have been up mr gibbs m star turtle gizmo is now living in pashto goes pentel suite yeah and you know what though so we decided to move we're going to put the train display in the lobby which actually i think is a great idea this way maybe adults that don't write come into the department will enjoy it yeah an adult but i doubt it will have any fans as well oh apps probably even more so right and many times so it's going to they're going to be other people that are can be able to enjoy it as well so officer dave will be on it we're hoping it's some point after after thanksgiving so december and no one through new year's i know that our coworker miss patty  going to fall because the first thursday is the first so the second thursdays the eight so well that'll be fun so that's the eight yes all right do they have to register to tell us please please sign up if you can all right always helpful yet it is socialist and we're doing on the volves devices i am planning on people bringing their own bone to make sure i have a decent amount for who will be there in case you don't bring your own coal that would be fun we are so with it aren't we you know staying sticking with all that technology all right but before the eight comes the big the big drum roll peters township public library and peters township community light up night now banfield they think they have a big downtown pittsburgh happening they're going to light up the tree and santa comes in a fire truck and then santa stays in the library they is that children can have pictures taken with santa in tell santa that what their wish list know but the fun thing about those the gingerbread houses it's become tradition people just love it you just come in you make a cute little just a small little gingerbread house take it home with you and you can cheery yeah i also have this lid does a special edible holiday treats program where you get to come in and you can make all kinds of really cool special little treats they're really easy to towards younger kids  we're all ages and families really but the come in to make some really stuff it i've looked at the list yesterday the sign up please we always always ask that people register that list but is really full of it there are a lot of children that come to that one in the next one that we're going to talk about we ask that because we don't want somebody showing up and not having enough stuff for them to make the tree right we need headcounts to be yet to be able to get everything in there the beauty of it too is there is no charge there you know we don't charge for it it's just part of the the good things of being a patron of our library yes the register because then after that i mean if we go right in order we have light up night then we do the edible holiday treats and then we're going to have joan dinon and this locking of treats tucking of treats and chanted rein treats are inside this she wrote a book and it's called will santa come tonight and as a matter of fact she is local right comes to the programs brings her grandchildren wrote this book and she is going to read it and a lot of fun and it's a lot of fun she's going to read the story to me very christmassy will have bells and singing and you know will make it very it's going to be very festive what a great gift these are two they are you could buy them at the library yeah he's going to have it i think from what i understand is it may i think she read they've been repackaged so it's less expensive so they're they're definitely going to be available and i'm thinking maybe we should you know maybe not now but maybe at the end of the next one we need to read to like a little christmassy thing look at look  t and you know what else this is i took this one from my daughter's room and she signed some so this one was for angela keep believing joan up it's going to be in the lobby it's going to be a lot of fun but ok so you don't dine in yet you see that every on december twelfth or december tenth excuse me at eleven thirty yeah that's a saturday morning that's a full morning too because that's a morning reindeer treats and then that's a saturday and then on the twelve which will be a monday you can come and make a family for a family or midnight which is just like our edible holiday tree please sign up so make sure even if ornaments for the kids to make so much fun you can make all kinds really great or and they make great gifts the homemade gifts but you have the little ones are the best they are give and i make at least like three ornament right different kinds in the fun thing is again their keep sakes you know you put them on your tree and we still i made as a kid on our tree and i have mind for the kids too that's my favorite just my favorite when you pull them out and go oh what just way to look at starts growing and then that all of a sudden you're making these like little ornaments with their little faces i have a stack of these at home of twenty five wrapped books on you so i'm spreading this idea out to families because of you maybe you don't have twenty five christmas books however your local paper central library has about a ok but bedtime and then you know and then the next day you get another one and then you read twenty five new holiday stories now you can do this a variety of ways you can you know wrap your own books like i did you can borrow some from the library and wrap them up and then you know return them as the kids are going to through them for their bedtime story that night anyway that kolo or you have an elf on the shelf elf you can save time and not wrap and have the elf on the shelf go to the public library and bring a book a for you to check out and have it waiting in the morning is so overwhelming but because of that it makes it easier like you can do this really fun i didn't read a whole book every day the month of december and you don't have to buy them buy them so do you want to open one yeah it's days december movies and it is a charlie brown christmas this is so sweet so what do we do so we're going to eat it and then this one since it's a longer maybe a while where the whole thing no depends on your kid because you'd be selecting these based upon your own child what ones you want to read some maybe they would what i like how this one is broken down in here there's all different comics so right i mean as a parent with a little one with their attention span of you know it's just one so let's read one ok you read one first one read one realize that there are only three hundred forty seven days until christmas to me to do the next push or don't i know it a new year's comes right after that it just doesn't seem possible i don't know brown ok maybe we ought to skip that idea ok i'm just going to read it though because it's really cute dear santa claus well it's that time of year again isn't it there are so many things that i would like to say to you but i find it hard to put them in writing it would be so much easier if i could talk to you in person do you think maybe we could have lunch together some time i want to go with talking of the ages and stuff but then we get into there are actually some color ones too and i love this one look at this one out of his tree only of about thirty seconds but just show a nice colorful one very cool this is all very festive that's really fun idea yes so what i like and i like that you share the idea that you could just borrow them from the library don't wrap them up in it be like surprise ok here's what we're reading today right and and what's fun about that is if you use the library books the next year you have a whole new set you can do so you don't have to worry about buying new books every year because right every year you can have new books right that's a great idea shannon and i like it i like it well i think we need to just you know khalid a day so that we can get i have a lot of books to prep yes if i'm going to do at home i going to read to the dog