[00:10] Speaker A: Hi, everyone. This is Jamie on the Keep Em Healthy podcast. Normally, I talk about health topics that are relevant or that spark my interest, but today we are going to focus on Bella La holidays. And the even better treat of this whole episode is that I'm highlighting Christmas with my sisters. This Christmas edition of Sister Forum highlights the good, the bad, and the ugly of Christmas past. The holidays are times of high fun but also high stress, so come join us and destress and laugh with us and just take note that your family isn't the only crazy one. Let's get the sisters on board. Welcome back, everybody, to the second Sister Forum. This one is holiday edition. I want to say hi to Casey.
[01:09] Speaker B: Hi.
[01:11] Speaker A: We have Erin. Hi, Haley. Hello, Megan.
[01:17] Speaker C: Hi.
[01:18] Speaker A: Hi, everybody. Okay, so I'm going to start with some rapid fire questions, so we're going to figure out the best way to do this. I'm just going to say the question, and I want you guys, if you have an answer, to answer, and then I'll just kind of give you the red light or the green light to keep going if I like where you're going with your answer, I guess. So we'll just try it like that, and we'll see how this works. You ready? Yes. This is holiday edition. We want to hear what the sisters have to say. Here we go. Finish this. Thought it wouldn't be Christmas without eggnog.
[01:54] Speaker C: Presents.
[01:56] Speaker D: I don't know. Family Christmas tree decorating me there.
[02:03] Speaker B: I don't know.
[02:04] Speaker A: I don't like mine either. What is your favorite holiday road trip memory? I have one in Casey. You can shut me down. When we were coming home from New York, we saw the Rockets or whatever we saw, and we were coming home, and mom and dad surprised us with picking up our puppy, our new brand new puppy, Stosh. And that was a really fun Christmas memory. But the most the funniest part of that is that Casey was freaking out as we pulled up to the house because she had a period stain on her sweatshirt, and she was like, we can't go in there. Okay.
[02:46] Speaker B: I just say. That whole weekend was held for me because I had ovarian cyst, and we're at Rockets, and there's nothing worse to me than a show. I am not a Cinderella. Let's go see Wicked. Let's go see nuck hacker. I rather shovel ****.
[03:07] Speaker A: Okay, but, Haley, that has to be one of your favorite road trip memories personalities. Yeah. Stash was your vehicle.
[03:16] Speaker D: Dad and mom also told us it was one of Dad's clients that he wants us to meet.
[03:20] Speaker A: So weird.
[03:24] Speaker D: And we all were like, no, that's so weird.
[03:30] Speaker A: Can I have that?
[03:31] Speaker C: In that they also surprised me on the way home from getting Stashed to the Jonas Brothers Hannah Montana concert. So that was like a triple star for me.
[03:39] Speaker B: I was shopping like crazy that weekend. So that was the best part for me.
[03:44] Speaker A: Okay. Nothing says Christmas like shopping. I will say that. Okay. What is the best present your staff partner has ever given you? John. That's hard. We're always so easily focused on what the worst of the worst are.
[04:05] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I'm easy because it was only last year. This is our first Christmas. It was very special. He gave me an ornament that said our first Christmas, and it was a really pretty ornament, and it meant a lot to me. That was it.
[04:25] Speaker C: That's nice. Mine was my engagement ring. I got engaged on Christmas Eve. That was mine.
[04:31] Speaker A: Oh, that was really fun. That was really good. All right, well, what about the worst? Anybody have a quick worst?
[04:37] Speaker D: Oh, I do.
[04:39] Speaker B: I've had it shocking.
[04:42] Speaker D: Well, I always never ask for anything because I'd rather do something as a present, but Fran always gets me something either way. Last year, he got me a Haley shirt, is what he called it. But it was a brown sequin and top, and I never wore it.
[04:58] Speaker B: Never wear you don't know me at all.
[05:00] Speaker D: I was like this makes me question our whole relationship.
[05:05] Speaker A: Like the dress I got you for your birthday. That it was the brown paper.
[05:09] Speaker D: It was like a blue no, I like that dress. That is way more me than the brown sequin tank top that I literally pulled out. I said, I will never wear this.
[05:22] Speaker A: You ready? Yeah, I guess. If you could pick your Pollyanna, who would you choose and why?
[05:28] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good one. Probably choose who would I choose?
[05:34] Speaker A: ****.
[05:36] Speaker B: Probably you, jamie or why?
[05:40] Speaker A: Wait, Megan, I can hear your pump. You freeze.
[05:43] Speaker B: Sorry. Gross.
[05:48] Speaker A: Sorry. You're the easiest to I feel like I can get you anything. Like, I can name a couple of things that you need. That it's. Just, like, I know what to get. Haley has very specific taste, which makes it easy, but also hard. Megan, you have specific taste, too, but it's also expensive.
[06:14] Speaker B: And Casey.
[06:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I never know.
[06:17] Speaker D: I always question myself.
[06:18] Speaker A: I'm shopping for Casey, style wise.
[06:21] Speaker D: Erin by far the hardest.
[06:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Why do you think Erin is the hardest?
[06:27] Speaker D: Because she's almost too simple. And if I were to get something she liked, she would already have had it. Because it's the plain T shirt, the jeans and boots. Yeah. She just doesn't she wants everything, but doesn't like anything.
[06:43] Speaker A: Can I add that she's so sorry.
[06:45] Speaker C: She is so indecisive. She can't figure out if she likes it or not.
[06:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[06:49] Speaker A: Casey, who would you choose for Pollyanna?
[06:52] Speaker B: Haley.
[06:55] Speaker A: Why?
[06:56] Speaker B: Because we have similar taste. I mean, I'm a little bit more 2003 ish, but what are you buying.
[07:05] Speaker A: Her gift so you can wear it? Or were you, like, buying a hip?
[07:09] Speaker B: Thanks to Haley being pregnant, my closet is hers right now.
[07:14] Speaker D: No longer pregnant, by the way, folks.
[07:16] Speaker A: Yay. Okay. All right. Let's go. Megan, you ready? Yes. If you had to be trapped in a Christmas movie, which one would you choose? Let's talk about which ones are even out there. You have the Grinch Miracle on 34th street, elf jingle all the way. Jingle all the way. The Santa Clauses. All right, so go ahead. Which one would you want to be.
[07:42] Speaker C: Trapped in the Eloise Christmas movie? The one in the hotel?
[07:47] Speaker A: Yes. I know exactly which one you're talking about.
[07:50] Speaker C: I want to be Louise.
[07:52] Speaker A: A hotel.
[07:53] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. It's so wonderful.
[07:56] Speaker A: Okay, Casey, which one would you want to be trapped in?
[07:59] Speaker B: What?
[07:59] Speaker A: What was the question? If you had to be trapped in a Christmas movie, which one would you choose?
[08:05] Speaker B: I guess I think it would be elf. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not a big fan of Christmas movies. I'm not like the Hallmark page. Yeah, like the Hallmark special thing.
[08:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[08:19] Speaker B: Sorry, I don't know.
[08:21] Speaker A: That's fine. Moving on. Halley. Worst Christmas outfit style from the past of mine. Of yours. Of anybody, whatever. Worst Christmas style of the past?
[08:34] Speaker D: The Christmas that I came back from college and I was heavier, and I also wore, like, a potato stack. No one else is going to remember this, but it was a combo dress. It had a turtleneck sweater top, and then it bunched at, like, right underneath, right at the ribs. And then it went into a, like, gray potato stack, like, bubble skirt. Does anyone remember this outfit?
[09:00] Speaker A: No. No. I feel like I do. I feel like I do.
[09:05] Speaker D: But one it just wasn't flattering for anybody. And then I also gained weight. And multiple people said or implied that I definitely gained weight.
[09:18] Speaker A: So this is more of a tragic memory than, like, an outfit.
[09:23] Speaker D: My office choice didn't help, but, yeah, that would be my only. Every other Christmas, I naturally kill it.
[09:29] Speaker A: Right?
[09:30] Speaker C: That's to show how shy our family is. Not shy at all.
[09:34] Speaker A: Not try at all about talking about that. But wait, can I tell you about my worst Christmas outfit style? I showed up to Grandmama pop's house, and my male boy cousin Nicholas is wearing the exact same sweater as me. I had that happen to me, too.
[09:51] Speaker B: We had the same Vnac cut off.
[09:54] Speaker A: It was sweater with a light long sleeve how and tacky pants.
[10:06] Speaker B: You. Yes.
[10:07] Speaker A: Am I a boy or what?
[10:11] Speaker D: Bad. That's like Casey wearing a sweater vest at Homecoming. Like and I had slick back hair.
[10:18] Speaker A: Like, I was the back voice. So bad. So good. Oh, my gosh. That's really funny. Okay, Megan, this one you'll do better with. You're feeling your best five. You're smiling ear to ear. What Christmas song is playing in your head?
[10:40] Speaker B: Meg just a breast pump down.
[10:43] Speaker A: It's like air fart going through.
[10:47] Speaker B: Everyone's going to be like, breast pump.
[10:49] Speaker D: Well, you know what? At least she's real.
[10:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[10:53] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[10:56] Speaker D: Press pump.
[10:56] Speaker C: Megan, is this my question?
[10:59] Speaker A: Yes. You're feeling your best vibe. Smiling ear to ear. What Christmas song is playing in your head? Oh, and God bless us, everyone. Okay, good and quiet. Sign her today if you're listening.
[11:23] Speaker C: Beyond anything, flea.
[11:25] Speaker A: That was really fun, guys. I'm like mom crying. That was just a fun kind of questionnaire area time frame. But now I want to kind of give some insight just because now that we are adults, we had Christmas traditions of the past as being sisters in a home. Now we are parents of the homes. Right. And so the vibe obviously changes. First, let's talk about I want to talk about Christmas traditions of the past. So when we were five sisters with mom and dad, and they were the ones in charge of the Christmas traditions, I just want to pick apart a couple of them that kind of stick out for me. And the first one that sticks out is the Christmas card photos. The Christmas card photos every year were ridiculous. Ridiculous. But I find myself doing the same thing, like, oh, my God, I'm turning into mom.
[12:22] Speaker B: Continue.
[12:23] Speaker A: They always have to have, like, a theme. Like, guys remembers one where we were, like, wrapped in an American flag and sitting out on a hill.
[12:31] Speaker B: Yeah, that was sitting on the hill.
[12:33] Speaker A: Like, all of our heads smushed together. And in our own edition, that was that one. I mean, that was lovely, mom, but okay, so then yeah, our heads my mom made us smush all our heads together, and then she put a Christmas wreath. We're laying on the ground. We're all our heads smushed together. A mom put a Christmas wreath on top so that all of our heads were poking through the Christmas wreath.
[12:58] Speaker D: How about the one where she made us get wrapped in lights? I think Matt was included in that one.
[13:02] Speaker A: Matt was one wrapped in light.
[13:05] Speaker B: Just remember her.
[13:06] Speaker A: And we had tan our Chinese picture. What about the white T shirt one and jeans?
[13:15] Speaker B: Miserable.
[13:18] Speaker A: That's another thing I want to talk about. Casey, you are the scrooge of Christmas. I'm realizing as we're talking through them.
[13:29] Speaker B: And you know what I always thought my favorite holiday was?
[13:35] Speaker A: Every picture, every year are the pictures. Somehow she was ****** off because she looked terrible in it, and she didn't want mom to send that one out. And the one you were like, the one with the white T shirt, you were, like, so ****** off. You're literally smirking in the picture. You weren't, like, smiling. It was like a closed mouth smirk. My face was, like, really red for something.
[13:53] Speaker B: I just feel like I never had the right outfit. I always felt like everybody looked so good, and here I am, and everybody was into it, and I'm just like, no.
[14:09] Speaker A: That was your prime. Okay, so then the next thing I would talk about, about a Christmas tradition would be Christmas morning. Christmas morning. We had a flow. Everybody had to wait on the top of the steps. And after my mom and dad got everything they needed the camera, the music, the coffee we were all patiently waiting. We were able to enter into the first floor, except that we could not go right to our presence. We had to run to the manger and sing Happy Birthday to baby Jesus, and then we could go and open our presents. And now that's really sweet. I'm going to be honest. It's very sweet. But what the funniest thing is cut to ages 20, 25, 27 for Megan. We are still if you lived at home with mom and dad sitting on the steps and waiting until you got the okay, singing Have Birthday Jesus and then opening your presents I did last year.
[15:08] Speaker B: I was 34 years old, and I was at my Christmas.
[15:15] Speaker A: It's so good.
[15:17] Speaker C: Just to add, we all slept in the same room together. I thought that was so fun.
[15:21] Speaker A: No, my kids said that we all wait on the steps, too, and all that, but I just think it's so funny, Megan, like, you would sit on the step by yourself if, like, by the time everyone had moved out and you would wait for mom to give you the okay alone.
[15:35] Speaker C: I love tradition. I love feeling like a kid. So I think that's why I would still do it today if I could. Like, if me, Brendan and Beau went and stayed at mom and dad on Christmas Eve, which we were invited to do. So probably to do that.
[15:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. You do you traditions are meant for that warm, cozy feeling and the family time and the connection. So I get it, but it just cracks me up. Is there any other Christmas traditions that you guys want to talk about that I'm missing?
[16:04] Speaker C: I love non sugar cookies.
[16:07] Speaker D: The food in the morning with a cookie that we all just, like, sat on the couch and ate and drank our coffee. That's like, my favorite part.
[16:18] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Dad's eggnog has always been slamming, and it's always a nice tradition because yeah, it has been slamming. I can't wait for it. One of my favorite parts because dad mom's really in the kitchen. Dad does help mom a lot, but it's a nice tradition that dad has that I'll always remember.
[16:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I just never drink I never.
[16:39] Speaker D: Drink it, to be honest.
[16:42] Speaker A: I never drink the eggnog, but I do eat the Kabasi, and that is something that I look forward to, the fried Kabasi that dad does, too. So good. And then mom obviously always makes an awesome breakfast and then just the coffee, and she makes amazing Christmas cookies in all different shapes and forms and so right, Haley? Like, just sitting on the couch after opening your presents with coffee and a cookie, it's like, oh, my God, I'm in heaven.
[17:07] Speaker D: It's so good already, like, every day same, but it probably has something to do with that. It brings you back to that moment.
[17:18] Speaker A: And that comfy, all is calm, all is bright moment.
[17:24] Speaker B: Christmas this morning, right? It's like Kenny j Remember?
[17:28] Speaker A: Oh, Kenny J. That's who I'm talking now.
[17:32] Speaker B: Who I love, by the way, but couldn't stand when Casey what else knew?
[17:39] Speaker D: Casey, did you have a horrible childhood or what?
[17:42] Speaker B: Seriously?
[17:44] Speaker A: No anger? Anger at all?
[17:48] Speaker B: Wait.
[17:48] Speaker A: Okay.
[17:49] Speaker B: I would like to say I love Christmas. I love the whole Christmas morning thing. I love when all the family got together, just like the other core memories of the baby Jesus, all that kind of stuff. You know me. I'm not someone that's a Hallmark show. Not you're.
[18:04] Speaker A: Not. Okay. Hey, sorry.
[18:06] Speaker B: That's fine.
[18:06] Speaker A: At least more room for people like me and Megan to be in the Hallmark show. 13 year old me, when the magic ended, was so ******, I literally asked Santa for a cash register to play with and a microphone and all these things because I wanted toy still because I knew I was coming out of this, but I still wanted it. It's hard. I love magic, and I told you guys 100 times, so it could be anything. In my next life, it would be a teenage witch. Like, I just love magic. I think it's so cool. So, anyway, that's another story. Okay.
[18:49] Speaker B: He's awesome. God bless.
[18:54] Speaker A: But anyway, thank you guys for sharing all of our Christmas memories, and I'm grateful to have you as a part of all of my Christmases. I would rather be nowhere else, and I look forward to this Christmas Day. Hopefully we can all be in health together as opposed to what happened on Thanksgiving. But that happens when you have a million toddlers, literally. So, anyway, I'm going to say goodbye, and if you guys want to say your goodbyes, too, we'll catch you next time at the next sister forum.
[19:21] Speaker B: All right. Hallelujah. Jingle, jangle, fantastic goodbye.
[19:31] Speaker A: Any time I leave a conversation with my sisters, I feel like if I were to take a snapshot of my posture, of my body, I am bent over my right legs, cross over my left, trying to not pee my pants, and I'm crunched over and my stomach is hurting because I'm laughing. And then I have wet eyes because they're tearing up, and that is exactly what I look like right now. I love my sister so much. We're nuts. But they give me so much joy and I'm just really grateful for my luck in my family. That being said, I really hope you enjoyed this podcast, and I hope you got to laugh and destress during this holiday season. If you enjoyed my podcast, please share it with family and friends. Or you can go on to spotify Apple podcast or Amazon Music. And you can follow my podcast, clicking follow and also feel free. Give me a five star rating or write a review. I would really truly appreciate that your time and energy is really important and appreciated on my front. So I am wishing you the merriest and healthiest of holiday seasons. As always, you do. You stay well, keep them healthy.
