00:04happy christmas and have a wonderful new year to all the hello readers
00:10um christmas in our house well obviously it's changed an awful lot since having kids and
00:13everything but it's just become so much more exciting and you know um this year
00:17Aoife now has got this little elf it's called elf on a shelf and he's going to come on the
00:201st of december and he's going to watch her all the month of december and tyke as well you're
00:25not getting away with it too to make sure that they're a very good girl and a very good boy
00:28and then santa then obviously will come christmas eve and the kids will have to go to bed early
00:33won't you get a good sleep and while they're sleeping he's going to arrive and have bring
00:37them all their toys only if they've been good which they will won't you yeah and the elf will
00:41make sure of that um and it's just so exciting and this year for me i've got my family coming
00:45over from ireland and they're spending it here so there'll be like great smells in the house
00:50on christmas day with with the cooking yeah of course you can um i can't wait to see what
00:56the elf looks like yeah and what's what you're going to call him i'm going to call him spike
01:02just a big kid again isn't it yeah with these guys running around opening stockings presents
01:07under the trees um the dog chewing everything up as usual but yeah it should be a good day
01:12yeah something to look forward to it's just a really relaxing day and it always has just that
01:16there's a certain atmosphere that christmas has that you don't get any other day of the year
01:19um my personal favorite christmas song has to be the fairy tale in new york i just
01:24absolutely love it the pogues and kirstie mccall and it's just it's just such a beautiful song and
01:30is it really i think it isn't a bit doom and gloom no it's really festive and i just love
01:36it another
01:37great christmas song is um my uncle declan in ireland he's an irish country singer and he's got
01:41the hoolie the christmas hoolie christmas hoolie and that's a great one as well because i always play
01:45on boxing day or new year's day christmas eve i think i'm playing the day before christmas eve
01:51so so usually i'm working all the way through it so i've got training a couple days so it's
01:56not really a time for me to sit around and get fat eating turkey and drinking in the drinking in
02:01the
02:01festive spirits for me it's usually uh involves training and playing at some point so um i have
02:06to stay on my mantle oh no for that one day though christmas day is always yeah i always get
02:10christmas day off so it's not too bad everyone please help keep families together this christmas and
02:14you can help by donating so text and donate and that would be amazing for so many families out there
02:20thank you
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