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You know what time it is. Here we go. It’s story time a I said it’s story time. Alright. Today’s story is actually. About something you all know that I love. So Christmas now, Christmas, uh, was a few weeks ago, and my family and I, we had a wonderful time together. So during the day we actually, we had wonderful food together.

We decided to make Mexican food. It was delicious and we had worshiped together. We talked about, um, all the things that we appreciated that God had given us, and then we went to open up the gifts. So my parents and I, my sister, my brother-in-law and my nieces, we all went to the family room where the big tree was and we were all opening up our gifts.

Everyone was opening up gifts. And my sister and I, we were in shock because usually my nieces, they’re the kids that get a lot more gifts because, you know, we’re older and it’s fine, the kids can have it. But this year my parents decided to give my sister and I a lot of gifts, and I’m not gonna lie to you.

I was happy. So my sister and I were extremely happy this year. And of course we got our parents gifts too, but it was really nice. So everyone was happy. Um, I gave my family members some paintings I did, and they were happy I had them framed and everything. So we came to what we thought was the end of our gift giving time, and we were just sitting there talking and my dad suddenly stood up and said, Hey, so I have something else that I want to bring out.

And it’s for the entire family. So I need you guys to go to the other room now. Let me just give you a little bit of history. My dad, for honestly the last, I think 15 years, has always bought himself a gift and put one of our names on it and said, oh, well thank you, TIFF. I didn’t know you bought this for me.

And I didn’t buy it for him. He bought it for himself. So we have this ongoing joke that my dad likes to buy himself gifts and put one of our names on it. So we just expected it to be another one of those because up until that point, he had not opened a gift that he bought for himself. So he said, I have a gift that’s for the whole family.

So we’re like, huh, what could this be? So he said, Hey, does everybody go to the living room? So we went to the living room, we’re just sitting there, wait maybe about five minutes, and we’re like, what is daddy getting? And he comes downstairs with a big black. Thing. It was a karaoke machine and he had a microphone.

Now let me explain something you guys know. I like singing. I love music. My entire family, everyone in my family loves music. So we said, oh yeah, I mean, it had lights and everything. Now here’s the thing, by family, we’re very loving. We’re cool. Put a mic in our hand, we gonna put a show on. So anyways, so. My dad said, all right, so he had everybody’s favorite song.

So my parents went first. My dad or my mom sang a song and they were just dancing around. And then he said, all right, baby girl talking to me. He said, TIFF, it’s your turn. And there’s this song that I really like when I was in Korea. I sang it all the time. We went to the karaoke place. So I’ll sing a little bit of it for you.

Um, um, you say, I’m crazy, but you don’t really know what you’ve done. I’ll stop there. Ha. But I sang the whole song and I mean, I was giving it my all and then. My sister went and she was singing, and my brother-in-law went up. We had an amazing time and we laughed so hard because the year we thought my dad was gonna get himself something really big is the year he bought something big.

That the entire family could really enjoy, and it was a great memory singing on Christmas night with my family. Hopefully you also had some wonderful memories, made some wonderful memories with your family on Christmas, and yeah, I hope you enjoy the story and I’ll talk to you guys next time.