November 29, 2022 • 20 mins
Norah and Dad recap their busy family Thanksgiving holiday weekend, including a couple of holiday meals for Norah, Christmas tree trimming, Keepsake ornaments, weekend holiday dinner, this fun horse racing game, and lots of family time.
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Dad (00:00):
Hey Nora,
Norah (00:01):
Hello dad.
Dad (00:02):
do you know what the fastest way is to get eggnog to
the party?
Norah (00:06):
I don't, and I don't wanna know
Dad (00:08):
No.
You use the Eggspress Lane
Norah (00:13):
Boo.
Dad (00:16):
What are we talking about this week, Nora?
Norah (00:19):
We're talking about Thanksgiving weekend.
Dad (00:34):
welcome back to the, I don't like the way that well
come
Norah (00:40):
I don't like how that sounded either.
Dad (00:44):
Welcome back to the Nora and Dad Show.
I am as always the dad with thebad dad jokes.
dad, and I'm here with thelovely and talented, my cohost,
the one and only Nora.
What's Papa Nora?
Norah (00:59):
Nothing much back to school tomorrow.
Then I have three weeks and thenI'm outta here.
Peace
Dad (01:05):
You're Audi, 5,000 for winter break.
Norah (01:07):
Well, I actually only have like a week and a half.
So
Dad (01:11):
You, but you have a busy, you have like a busy three
weeks.
Norah (01:14):
I do, but I only have a week and a half of classes.
The rest of it's just review.
So
Dad (01:19):
Yeah.
But you've got, you got yourmusical, you got your mock
trial, you got exams and papers,so it's gonna be.
Norah (01:28):
one paper.
Dad (01:29):
It's gonna be a busy home stretch to get you to winter
break, but thankfully yourschool was kind enough to give
you the entire week ofThanksgiving off so you could
rest up and get ready for thehome stretch to winter break,
which is awesome.
I've never heard of that before.
Norah (01:44):
I think some other schools are doing that this year
too,
Dad (01:47):
Even like when I was in
Norah (01:48):
common.
Dad (01:49):
like when I was in college, in law school, we got the,
whatever, the five day weekend,you got the nine day weekend,
which is, which was awesome.
Norah (01:56):
awesome.
It was very nice.
Dad (01:58):
You,
Norah (01:59):
to go back though.
Dad (02:00):
you I'm ready for you to go back to.
Norah (02:04):
What?
Dad (02:04):
ready at.
Well, it's, it's, I mean, like,my, my routine gets disrupted
when you're not in school.
So,
Norah (02:11):
mine as well.
Dad (02:12):
not, not to make it all about me, but I'm gonna make it
all about me.
No, it's cuz I'm used to, youknow, driving you to school in
the morning and then I go intowork cuz my office is not too
far from the school and then Iswing by school afterwards and I
either stick around for mocktrial or pick you up or
whatever.
But it's just when you, when youdon't go to school, it feels.
My routine gets like thrownoutta whack.
So I, I like it better whenyou're in school.
(02:35):
That's all.
Norah (02:35):
all I suppose
Dad (02:38):
So how was your Thanksgiving weekend?
Norah (02:41):
I thought it was pretty good.
Dad (02:44):
You thought it was just, just pretty good?
Norah (02:46):
I, I, I have fun
Dad (02:47):
We had a lot of family time.
Norah (02:50):
Yes, we did.
Dad (02:51):
I mean, if, so, if I could put the Thanksgiving, I can put
the Thanksgiving weekend intocategories.
Like we had a lot of familytime.
We decorated the house forChristmas.
We got the house all ready to gofor Christmas, which is awesome.
And I watched, I watched a lotof soccer, which you did not
wanna watch with me.
Norah (03:08):
I
Dad (03:08):
so disappointed that you don't have like the, like the
patriotic fever for the US men'snational team and the, and the
world.
Norah (03:18):
I mean, I hope they win, but I'm not gonna be upset if
they lose.
Dad (03:22):
Really
Norah (03:23):
Yeah.
Dad (03:27):
You won't be like devastated, you won't cry.
Tears of sadness if the US losesto Iran on.
Tuesday, I guess this episodewill come out Tuesday morning,
so by the time this comes out,we won't know the results.
But you, so Tuesday afternoonyou won't cry.
Tears of sadness if, if Iranmarches on in the next round and
sends the US home,
Norah (03:46):
No, I'll be busy at school.
Dad (03:48):
our, our mortal enemy going back, like, going back like 40
plus years.
Norah (03:53):
I'm learning about that.
Dad (03:55):
Yeah.
It's, are you learning about thehostages in the, in 1980?
Norah (03:58):
Oh, we, we just finished Israel, so we're now moving
Toran and Iraq
Dad (04:04):
Okay.
Norah (04:05):
and then Saudi Arabia.
We have to fit all of that intoone and a half weeks.
I don't know if we're going to,
Dad (04:10):
That is a heavy week and a half of stuff to study in
school.
Norah (04:13):
yeah, yeah.
Dad (04:15):
Geez.
Norah (04:15):
want that class to end.
Dad (04:17):
Okay, so where do you wanna start?
Do you wanna start with familytime over Thanksgiving, or do
you wanna start with our, ourChristmas decorations?
Norah (04:24):
Christmas decorations.
Dad (04:26):
decorations.
So, We put the tree up.
It's an artificial tree.
I've only ever had an artificialChristmas tree this year I am,
let's see, my very firstChristmas was in 2001 with your
mom, so that makes me 22 inChristmas years this year.
(04:47):
So this will be my 22nd.
Christmas celebrated on thisplanet.
So I've only ever had anartificial Christmas tree.
Never had a real one, but we gota new tree this year, which is
really exciting.
And it is, I know how fancy itis, but it's not, I mean, they
have some that will, like, youcan press a button, like, and
it'll change from like white tocolor or color to white, or you
(05:10):
can program like light shows.
Ours just, it's just.
Lights, which is fine.
It's classy.
I like the white lights.
And then we we decorated onSaturday, which is our as, as is
our family.
We decorated on Friday, whichis, see I told you, when you're
not in school, my whole likeroutine gets thrown outta whack.
(05:31):
I don't even know what day itis.
What day is it now?
Norah (05:33):
Sunday
Dad (05:34):
Sunday, Sunday.
Oh, cuz you're back to schooltomorrow, or, that's an easy
point of reference.
We decorated Friday.
As is our family tradition withwith ornaments.
We always buy each other a brandnew ornaments.
That is, I guess the, the ideais that we find one of the what,
(05:56):
one of the hallmark keepsakeornaments that, that.
Norah (05:59):
Okay.
Dad (05:59):
To the purchaser, which is usually me or your mom.
Signifies something like aboutthat person, right?
So your ornament this year was,was what, what, what ornament
did you get to put on the tree?
Norah (06:10):
I got two.
Dad (06:12):
Okay.
We'll start with the ones fromus.
Norah (06:14):
okay.
I got Buddy the Ls
Dad (06:17):
And why did you get Buddy the elf?
Norah (06:19):
Cause that, that's the musical this year, or one of the
musicals this year.
Dad (06:23):
Yeah, so you're deep in, deep in elf stuff at school.
So I thought
Norah (06:26):
I am.
Dad (06:26):
elf would be, would, would be inappropriate.
And it's like super Christmasytoo.
And we always watch the movieand it's a fun movie.
Norah (06:32):
I know the movie very well now,
Dad (06:35):
your your brother got a a Super Nintendo console ornament
that plays.
I don't know, Mario orsomething.
Song that seems to go on when Ihit it in, when I hit the button
in the store.
I didn't know the song was gonnaplay for like two minutes and it
was loud and it just went on.
There's, and there's no way tostop
Norah (06:53):
I had that same issue
Dad (06:54):
I got your mom a, like a flower shop window ornament cuz
your mom loves flowers and youguys and your mom got me black
Panther or.
Norah (07:05):
yes.
Dad (07:06):
So those are the newest additions to the to the Hyman
family tree.
And then you and Ryan alsoexchanged ornaments.
Norah (07:15):
Yes, I got a an axle lottle thing from Minecraft,
which I quite like
Dad (07:22):
what is that now?
Norah (07:24):
an axle lottle
Dad (07:24):
you, you need to speak like English.
Norah (07:26):
that is English.
It's like an animal that livesin, it's, it's real, like it's a
real animal.
Dad (07:32):
What is it?
Norah (07:33):
it?
An axil.
Dad (07:34):
An alot?
Norah (07:35):
Look it up.
Dad (07:37):
I've never heard of that before.
Norah (07:40):
Oh, they're
Dad (07:40):
spell Axle
Norah (07:42):
I'm not the best person to,
Dad (07:44):
Axo?
A X O T O.
Oh my God.
It is a real thing.
Norah (07:49):
Yeah, and they're really cute.
Look at'em.
They're like little fish
Dad (07:51):
It's a, it's a metamorphic salamander.
Closely related to the TigerSalam.
Norah (07:56):
they're really cute.
Dad (07:58):
Axle Lotts are unusual among amphibians in that they
reach adulthood withoutundergoing metamorphosis.
Instead of taking to the land,adults remain aquatic and guilt.
The species was originally foundin several lakes underlying what
is now Mexico City, such aslake, I'm not gonna pronounce
that word and I'm not gonnapronounce the other, the other
(08:20):
lake word.
But they're under what is nowMexico City as I don't speak
Spanish.
These lakes were drained bySpanish settlers after the
conquest of the Aztec Empireleading to the destruction of
much of the a lot's naturalhabitat.
I'll be darned okay.
Norah (08:36):
Yeah.
So I got that.
Dad (08:38):
There's your, there's your science lesson for the day,
Norah (08:41):
and I'll maybe, I'll, maybe I'll learn about that in
ecology during our
Dad (08:44):
There you go.
Okay.
And so, and then you
Norah (08:47):
Ryan a, a silly dog that looks like the family dog at
their.
Dad (08:53):
Lovely.
And the best part of decoratingthe tree, other than seeing the
ornaments that we purchase foreach other to add to the tree is
going back.
And as we decorate the tree, wenow have at least, you know, you
have 16 years worth ofornaments.
Your Donovan has 14 years worthof ornaments.
And me and your mom both have,you know, 20 plus years worth of
ornaments to go on the tree.
(09:15):
That kind of takes us back.
It's like a little walk downmemory lane as we
Norah (09:18):
And Ryan has two
Dad (09:20):
And Ryan has two.
Yeah, but we have, and it's kindof a little the tree becomes
like a time capsule of ourfamily,
Norah (09:27):
Mm-hmm.
Dad (09:28):
so lots of buzz light ears are on the tree.
There's lots of Sesame Street onthe tree because you were in
your younger youth.
You were a major Sesame Streetstand.
Like you loved the se.
Norah (09:45):
Thees.
Dad (09:45):
The se you never heard it called.
Maybe I just made that up.
Norah (09:48):
No, I definitely think you just made that up.
That's awful.
Dad (09:52):
Why is that awful?
Norah (09:53):
just is.
I don't like it.
Dad (09:55):
Right?
I'm gonna send this off to thisSMB workshop and see if it's
acceptable if we call it thees.
Norah (09:59):
It isn't,
Dad (10:04):
Remember, do you remember going to Sesame Place when you
broke down in tears because youdidn't get to meet the you
didn't get to meet thecharacters?
Norah (10:11):
I don't
Dad (10:13):
There was a
Norah (10:13):
word for it.
Dad (10:14):
there was the parade down, whatever the, the main street
equivalent of Sesame Place wasand all the characters they
pulled kids out of the crowd tomarch down the parade route with
them, and you really wanted toget picked and you didn't get
picked, and you just startedcrying.
And us an employee felt reallybad.
And so they took us to thebackstage area where we got a
(10:37):
private party with all of the,with all of the Sesame Street
characters
Norah (10:41):
Oh wait.
Actually,
Dad (10:43):
actually, yes.
Norah (10:44):
It seems a little excessive.
Dad (10:46):
So I suppose the moral of the story is if you cry a lot,
you get your way, but I'm notsure that's a great lesson to
teach a kid.
Norah (10:53):
Yeah.
I don't know.
Dad (10:54):
Yeah.
Now I'm not a fan of that lessonat all.
But it was nice to have theprivate Sesame Place party, I
suppose.
Norah (11:01):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I enjoyed that.
Dad (11:02):
You got hugs from Cookie Monster and Elmo and Bert, Ernie
and Big Bird and Oscar theGrouch and everybody.
They were all there.
Norah (11:11):
They were all there.
Dad (11:12):
They were always Cause Cause Well yeah, cuz it was
Sesame Place.
That's what they do.
That's where they live.
Norah (11:19):
Okay.
Dad (11:21):
Okay.
Yeah, so.
So you lots of Sesame Streetornaments like I said, cuz you
were a big, a big fan of theses.
Yeah, it is a lots of, we'vemoved on to the Marvel ornaments
now.
We have lots of Marvelornaments.
It's just a, a lovely walk downmemory lane of.
Of our family and kind ofeverything that, that is the
(11:41):
ornament, the ornaments speak tokind of us as a family.
So the, the tree just becomes anice kind of, I was gonna say
living like memento, but thetree's, not, it's an artificial
tree, but it's, it's, it's a,it's, it's a tree.
So and it's, I can see it fromwhere I'm sitting as we're
recording.
It's, it's, it, it act, itactually looks really nice.
So, so that's up the house is,the outside of the house is
(12:02):
decorated with lights.
The stockings are up on themantle.
We're we're, we're ready.
We're ready for Santa to tovisit the house.
Norah (12:11):
Yes'.
Dad (12:12):
Are are, are you ready for Santa Claus?
Are you gonna go to bed Nice andearly on Christmas Eve so Santa
can deliver the gifts
Norah (12:17):
I go to bed nice and early every night.
Dad (12:20):
you do.
You're the only teenager inAmerica that is likes to be in
bed by nine o'clock at night.
Norah (12:27):
I enjoy my sleep.
Dad (12:29):
I know you do.
It's great.
Norah (12:30):
I don't know, it's not like I have like.
Dad (12:33):
Most teenagers stay up until like, I don't know, like,
like your brother, like tilllike 1, 2, 3 in the morning
doing whatever, and you're like,nine o'clock, like lights out,
I'm done.
Norah (12:43):
I don't know.
I don't like staying up lateunless I have to.
Like even when Ryan's over, thelatest I stay up is probably
like 1130.
Dad (12:51):
what a fun date you are.
Norah (12:54):
Yeah.
Dad (12:56):
Ha.
And so that was, I guess thatwas part one of the holiday
weekend.
And then part two was a wholelot of family time, which was
also which as we talked aboutlast time is my, is like my
favorite part of Thanksgiving.
But we got it in, we got it intwo doses.
(13:16):
So we had the Thanksgivingdinner on Thursday at in
Kathleen's house with like thewhole family.
And minus your uncle Pat who wasdown in Kentucky and, and then
oh, and Uncle Jerry who did notcome in cuz he was having car
trouble.
So we were Oh.
And Anna did not come in cuzshe's a doctor and she was on
(13:36):
call.
So we had, most of, most of thefamily was there.
And and we, and we feasted wefeasted a lot.
Did you say you did or did nothave my smoked.
Norah (13:48):
I did.
Donovan didn't
Dad (13:49):
You did, Donovan did not.
How was the how was the smoke?
Turkey?
Norah (13:53):
it was very TAs.
Dad (13:54):
Yum.
Yeah.
I would never I don't think I'dever cook a Turkey in a
different way ever in the futureother than what I did, which was
to, which is, this is my newfavorite word, spatchcock, which
is where you cut the backbone,the spine out of the bird, and
you kind of, Flat, which theysay make allows it to cook.
(14:15):
It definitely cooks faster butalso more evenly cuz you're
getting rid of that big opencavity in the middle of the
bird.
And then on, yeah, and then onthe smoker.
And it was, it was it wasamazing.
I thought it was amazing.
And you did not you did not getyour pie on Thursday night.
Norah (14:30):
no, I didn't, I wasn't feeling good.
Dad (14:33):
Yeah, that was your second thing.
It was your second dinner.
So
Norah (14:35):
yeah, I had, I had a, I had a slice of pie at the first
one.
Dad (14:39):
yeah.
It's understandable why yourbelly might not have you.
You've reached at the, the ripeage of 16.
You've reached the point in yourlife where you now have two
Thanksgivings to go to.
Norah (14:49):
Yeah.
Dad (14:50):
Yeah.
Mo Yeah.
Yeah.
So you were, you were.
No, it, no, it, it is normal.
But it's normal.
Like when you're in a No, it is,but usually, I don't know a lot
of, I don't know.
Do any of your friends go to twoThanksgivings?
Norah (15:03):
I don't really have any friends that are in
relationships.
Dad (15:07):
That's what I'm saying.
So it's like a relationshipthing.
But most 16 year olds are not atthat point in their life where
they have two Thanksgivings togo to.
So,
Norah (15:15):
I see what you're saying now.
Dad (15:16):
ah, so yeah, so understandable why you might be
full and not ready for.
Second pie on, on onThanksgiving night.
And then last night, Saturdaynights we had not really second,
second Thanksgiving, but yourfamily dinner.
We've historically done a familyadult dinner on the Saturday
(15:37):
after Thanksgiving.
We did not do that this year.
It's usually when we do it, it'sbeen out at a restaurant and
it's, it is no kids.
That's why we call it the adult
Norah (15:44):
too many adults were missing this.
Dad (15:46):
Yeah, there were a lot of adults that were missing and
then it's, it was and then yougotta find sitters for the
littles and whatever.
So we did not do second we didnot do adult dinner.
We did a family dinner at atyour cousin's house where your
Uncle Mike cooked a, an amazingprime rib.
(16:07):
And we.
Ate and we drank and we laughedand we played this rocking like
horse racing game that I hadnever heard of before, but it
was like a tremendous amount offun.
Norah (16:17):
Yeah, I thought it was fun.
I, mom and I did really well onour team.
Dad (16:21):
You did.
Do you want to maybe try andexplain like, how the game is
played?
Norah (16:24):
Let's see, so it's like, it's a horse betting games.
You get poker chips and.
At the beginning of the race,four horses are taken out.
So you roll the dye to see whichhorses one through 12 will be
taken out and it, so the firsthorse, you have to put one poker
chip in.
If you had that one, and thenthe last horse, you have to put
(16:46):
four and you kind of like go oneto four, how many chips you have
to put in, and then you justkeep rolling and whatever number
you roll on the die that.
like that's number of the horse.
And then you have to move thathorse one spot, but it's also
based off of the probability.
So like seven has the mostnumber of like possible outcomes
(17:09):
you can have while rolling adie.
While one and 12.
That can only, sorry, I thought,oh yeah, nevermind.
It's two through 12.
Two is, you can only get thatone way.
It was a very intense game.
Dad (17:25):
it was.
And then your Delta playingcards what, two through Queen.
And that's the cards that are inyour, you get the Delta four
cards and the cards in yourhands correspond to the numbers
of the horses.
And then if the horse that wins,the people that have, that are
holding the cards for those,those number horses split the
pot.
(17:47):
As the pot builds as you, cuzyou, as you're rolling the dice
and this horses that arescratched not in the race.
If you roll those numbers, youkeep throwing chips into the pot
and then you split the pot atthe end.
Or if you're lucky, which Idon't think happened to anybody
last night you're the only oneholding a card and then you, you
take the whole pot.
But it was.
He was super intent as we're allstanding around the, the kitchen
(18:09):
island rolling dice and likescreaming.
As my apple watch is telling meour decibel level was too high
last night as we're screaming atthe top of our lungs cheering on
the horses, trying to trying towin the pot of chips.
It was great.
Norah (18:21):
Oh, the dogs were barking.
It's going crazy.
Dad (18:25):
Yeah.
Like, I've never, yeah, it's,it's like the most, I've cheered
and screamed playing a, playinga game in some, it was a lot of
fun.
So I gotta figure out, I'll,I'll find, I'll find a link and
I'll drop the link in the, inthe show notes just to like,
where you can, like, if youwanna play where you can
actually find this game.
But it was a tremendous amountof fun.
(18:47):
And now we, and now you're backto school and we move on to the
to the rest of the holidayseason.
So good luck getting throughyour last three weeks of school.
Norah (18:55):
Thanks.
Dad (18:57):
Yeah, I, I mean, I think you'll be, I think you'll be
fine, but
Norah (19:00):
I'll be fine.
Dad (19:01):
yeah.
And then on to second semester,and, and then you, you'll
Norah (19:05):
We get like a nice two and a half week break first,
Dad (19:08):
do you guys get the longest winter break, which again is
super nice, but.
Two and a half weeks is a longbreak.
Norah (19:16):
and then third quarter is easy peasy.
Dad (19:18):
Easy peasy
Norah (19:19):
have like no full days of school
Dad (19:23):
I know between the holidays and then teacher in service days
and whatever, parent teacherconference days and spring
breaks and other things.
Yeah, you have very few.
And then snow, the inevitablesnow days that we're gonna get
here in northeast Ohio, you havevery few full weeks of school
between when, when you go backand like and when school ends in
(19:45):
May.
Norah (19:46):
No.
After spring break is when itpicks up, it's just third
quarter.
That's pretty.
Dad (19:51):
Yeah.
Well, so good luck on your last,whatever.
Good luck on your last threeweeks of school.
And yeah, we'll see everyoneback here in two weeks with lit
with another episode.
Anything, anything else youwanna add?
Norah (20:02):
Not really.
Hope you had a goodThanksgiving.
Dad (20:05):
We did.
I hope everyone else had a goodThanksgiving too.
We'll be back in two weeks ormaybe we can, we'll pick up on
the holiday theme and we'll talksome about, we can talk some
about Christmas in two weeks.
How's that sound?
Norah (20:16):
that works for me.
Dad (20:17):
That works.
All right.
We will see everyone back herein two weeks.
Love you, Nora.
Norah (20:25):
you too.
Hey Nora,
Norah (00:01):
Hello dad.
Dad (00:02):
do you know what the fastest way is to get eggnog to
the party?
Norah (00:06):
I don't, and I don't wanna know
Dad (00:08):
No.
You use the Eggspress Lane
Norah (00:13):
Boo.
Dad (00:16):
What are we talking about this week, Nora?
Norah (00:19):
We're talking about Thanksgiving weekend.
Dad (00:34):
welcome back to the, I don't like the way that well
come
Norah (00:40):
I don't like how that sounded either.
Dad (00:44):
Welcome back to the Nora and Dad Show.
I am as always the dad with thebad dad jokes.
dad, and I'm here with thelovely and talented, my cohost,
the one and only Nora.
What's Papa Nora?
Norah (00:59):
Nothing much back to school tomorrow.
Then I have three weeks and thenI'm outta here.
Peace
Dad (01:05):
You're Audi, 5,000 for winter break.
Norah (01:07):
Well, I actually only have like a week and a half.
So
Dad (01:11):
You, but you have a busy, you have like a busy three
weeks.
Norah (01:14):
I do, but I only have a week and a half of classes.
The rest of it's just review.
So
Dad (01:19):
Yeah.
But you've got, you got yourmusical, you got your mock
trial, you got exams and papers,so it's gonna be.
Norah (01:28):
one paper.
Dad (01:29):
It's gonna be a busy home stretch to get you to winter
break, but thankfully yourschool was kind enough to give
you the entire week ofThanksgiving off so you could
rest up and get ready for thehome stretch to winter break,
which is awesome.
I've never heard of that before.
Norah (01:44):
I think some other schools are doing that this year
too,
Dad (01:47):
Even like when I was in
Norah (01:48):
common.
Dad (01:49):
like when I was in college, in law school, we got the,
whatever, the five day weekend,you got the nine day weekend,
which is, which was awesome.
Norah (01:56):
awesome.
It was very nice.
Dad (01:58):
You,
Norah (01:59):
to go back though.
Dad (02:00):
you I'm ready for you to go back to.
Norah (02:04):
What?
Dad (02:04):
ready at.
Well, it's, it's, I mean, like,my, my routine gets disrupted
when you're not in school.
So,
Norah (02:11):
mine as well.
Dad (02:12):
not, not to make it all about me, but I'm gonna make it
all about me.
No, it's cuz I'm used to, youknow, driving you to school in
the morning and then I go intowork cuz my office is not too
far from the school and then Iswing by school afterwards and I
either stick around for mocktrial or pick you up or
whatever.
But it's just when you, when youdon't go to school, it feels.
My routine gets like thrownoutta whack.
So I, I like it better whenyou're in school.
(02:35):
That's all.
Norah (02:35):
all I suppose
Dad (02:38):
So how was your Thanksgiving weekend?
Norah (02:41):
I thought it was pretty good.
Dad (02:44):
You thought it was just, just pretty good?
Norah (02:46):
I, I, I have fun
Dad (02:47):
We had a lot of family time.
Norah (02:50):
Yes, we did.
Dad (02:51):
I mean, if, so, if I could put the Thanksgiving, I can put
the Thanksgiving weekend intocategories.
Like we had a lot of familytime.
We decorated the house forChristmas.
We got the house all ready to gofor Christmas, which is awesome.
And I watched, I watched a lotof soccer, which you did not
wanna watch with me.
Norah (03:08):
I
Dad (03:08):
so disappointed that you don't have like the, like the
patriotic fever for the US men'snational team and the, and the
world.
Norah (03:18):
I mean, I hope they win, but I'm not gonna be upset if
they lose.
Dad (03:22):
Really
Norah (03:23):
Yeah.
Dad (03:27):
You won't be like devastated, you won't cry.
Tears of sadness if the US losesto Iran on.
Tuesday, I guess this episodewill come out Tuesday morning,
so by the time this comes out,we won't know the results.
But you, so Tuesday afternoonyou won't cry.
Tears of sadness if, if Iranmarches on in the next round and
sends the US home,
Norah (03:46):
No, I'll be busy at school.
Dad (03:48):
our, our mortal enemy going back, like, going back like 40
plus years.
Norah (03:53):
I'm learning about that.
Dad (03:55):
Yeah.
It's, are you learning about thehostages in the, in 1980?
Norah (03:58):
Oh, we, we just finished Israel, so we're now moving
Toran and Iraq
Dad (04:04):
Okay.
Norah (04:05):
and then Saudi Arabia.
We have to fit all of that intoone and a half weeks.
I don't know if we're going to,
Dad (04:10):
That is a heavy week and a half of stuff to study in
school.
Norah (04:13):
yeah, yeah.
Dad (04:15):
Geez.
Norah (04:15):
want that class to end.
Dad (04:17):
Okay, so where do you wanna start?
Do you wanna start with familytime over Thanksgiving, or do
you wanna start with our, ourChristmas decorations?
Norah (04:24):
Christmas decorations.
Dad (04:26):
decorations.
So, We put the tree up.
It's an artificial tree.
I've only ever had an artificialChristmas tree this year I am,
let's see, my very firstChristmas was in 2001 with your
mom, so that makes me 22 inChristmas years this year.
(04:47):
So this will be my 22nd.
Christmas celebrated on thisplanet.
So I've only ever had anartificial Christmas tree.
Never had a real one, but we gota new tree this year, which is
really exciting.
And it is, I know how fancy itis, but it's not, I mean, they
have some that will, like, youcan press a button, like, and
it'll change from like white tocolor or color to white, or you
(05:10):
can program like light shows.
Ours just, it's just.
Lights, which is fine.
It's classy.
I like the white lights.
And then we we decorated onSaturday, which is our as, as is
our family.
We decorated on Friday, whichis, see I told you, when you're
not in school, my whole likeroutine gets thrown outta whack.
(05:31):
I don't even know what day itis.
What day is it now?
Norah (05:33):
Sunday
Dad (05:34):
Sunday, Sunday.
Oh, cuz you're back to schooltomorrow, or, that's an easy
point of reference.
We decorated Friday.
As is our family tradition withwith ornaments.
We always buy each other a brandnew ornaments.
That is, I guess the, the ideais that we find one of the what,
(05:56):
one of the hallmark keepsakeornaments that, that.
Norah (05:59):
Okay.
Dad (05:59):
To the purchaser, which is usually me or your mom.
Signifies something like aboutthat person, right?
So your ornament this year was,was what, what, what ornament
did you get to put on the tree?
Norah (06:10):
I got two.
Dad (06:12):
Okay.
We'll start with the ones fromus.
Norah (06:14):
okay.
I got Buddy the Ls
Dad (06:17):
And why did you get Buddy the elf?
Norah (06:19):
Cause that, that's the musical this year, or one of the
musicals this year.
Dad (06:23):
Yeah, so you're deep in, deep in elf stuff at school.
So I thought
Norah (06:26):
I am.
Dad (06:26):
elf would be, would, would be inappropriate.
And it's like super Christmasytoo.
And we always watch the movieand it's a fun movie.
Norah (06:32):
I know the movie very well now,
Dad (06:35):
your your brother got a a Super Nintendo console ornament
that plays.
I don't know, Mario orsomething.
Song that seems to go on when Ihit it in, when I hit the button
in the store.
I didn't know the song was gonnaplay for like two minutes and it
was loud and it just went on.
There's, and there's no way tostop
Norah (06:53):
I had that same issue
Dad (06:54):
I got your mom a, like a flower shop window ornament cuz
your mom loves flowers and youguys and your mom got me black
Panther or.
Norah (07:05):
yes.
Dad (07:06):
So those are the newest additions to the to the Hyman
family tree.
And then you and Ryan alsoexchanged ornaments.
Norah (07:15):
Yes, I got a an axle lottle thing from Minecraft,
which I quite like
Dad (07:22):
what is that now?
Norah (07:24):
an axle lottle
Dad (07:24):
you, you need to speak like English.
Norah (07:26):
that is English.
It's like an animal that livesin, it's, it's real, like it's a
real animal.
Dad (07:32):
What is it?
Norah (07:33):
it?
An axil.
Dad (07:34):
An alot?
Norah (07:35):
Look it up.
Dad (07:37):
I've never heard of that before.
Norah (07:40):
Oh, they're
Dad (07:40):
spell Axle
Norah (07:42):
I'm not the best person to,
Dad (07:44):
Axo?
A X O T O.
Oh my God.
It is a real thing.
Norah (07:49):
Yeah, and they're really cute.
Look at'em.
They're like little fish
Dad (07:51):
It's a, it's a metamorphic salamander.
Closely related to the TigerSalam.
Norah (07:56):
they're really cute.
Dad (07:58):
Axle Lotts are unusual among amphibians in that they
reach adulthood withoutundergoing metamorphosis.
Instead of taking to the land,adults remain aquatic and guilt.
The species was originally foundin several lakes underlying what
is now Mexico City, such aslake, I'm not gonna pronounce
that word and I'm not gonnapronounce the other, the other
(08:20):
lake word.
But they're under what is nowMexico City as I don't speak
Spanish.
These lakes were drained bySpanish settlers after the
conquest of the Aztec Empireleading to the destruction of
much of the a lot's naturalhabitat.
I'll be darned okay.
Norah (08:36):
Yeah.
So I got that.
Dad (08:38):
There's your, there's your science lesson for the day,
Norah (08:41):
and I'll maybe, I'll, maybe I'll learn about that in
ecology during our
Dad (08:44):
There you go.
Okay.
And so, and then you
Norah (08:47):
Ryan a, a silly dog that looks like the family dog at
their.
Dad (08:53):
Lovely.
And the best part of decoratingthe tree, other than seeing the
ornaments that we purchase foreach other to add to the tree is
going back.
And as we decorate the tree, wenow have at least, you know, you
have 16 years worth ofornaments.
Your Donovan has 14 years worthof ornaments.
And me and your mom both have,you know, 20 plus years worth of
ornaments to go on the tree.
(09:15):
That kind of takes us back.
It's like a little walk downmemory lane as we
Norah (09:18):
And Ryan has two
Dad (09:20):
And Ryan has two.
Yeah, but we have, and it's kindof a little the tree becomes
like a time capsule of ourfamily,
Norah (09:27):
Mm-hmm.
Dad (09:28):
so lots of buzz light ears are on the tree.
There's lots of Sesame Street onthe tree because you were in
your younger youth.
You were a major Sesame Streetstand.
Like you loved the se.
Norah (09:45):
Thees.
Dad (09:45):
The se you never heard it called.
Maybe I just made that up.
Norah (09:48):
No, I definitely think you just made that up.
That's awful.
Dad (09:52):
Why is that awful?
Norah (09:53):
just is.
I don't like it.
Dad (09:55):
Right?
I'm gonna send this off to thisSMB workshop and see if it's
acceptable if we call it thees.
Norah (09:59):
It isn't,
Dad (10:04):
Remember, do you remember going to Sesame Place when you
broke down in tears because youdidn't get to meet the you
didn't get to meet thecharacters?
Norah (10:11):
I don't
Dad (10:13):
There was a
Norah (10:13):
word for it.
Dad (10:14):
there was the parade down, whatever the, the main street
equivalent of Sesame Place wasand all the characters they
pulled kids out of the crowd tomarch down the parade route with
them, and you really wanted toget picked and you didn't get
picked, and you just startedcrying.
And us an employee felt reallybad.
And so they took us to thebackstage area where we got a
(10:37):
private party with all of the,with all of the Sesame Street
characters
Norah (10:41):
Oh wait.
Actually,
Dad (10:43):
actually, yes.
Norah (10:44):
It seems a little excessive.
Dad (10:46):
So I suppose the moral of the story is if you cry a lot,
you get your way, but I'm notsure that's a great lesson to
teach a kid.
Norah (10:53):
Yeah.
I don't know.
Dad (10:54):
Yeah.
Now I'm not a fan of that lessonat all.
But it was nice to have theprivate Sesame Place party, I
suppose.
Norah (11:01):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I enjoyed that.
Dad (11:02):
You got hugs from Cookie Monster and Elmo and Bert, Ernie
and Big Bird and Oscar theGrouch and everybody.
They were all there.
Norah (11:11):
They were all there.
Dad (11:12):
They were always Cause Cause Well yeah, cuz it was
Sesame Place.
That's what they do.
That's where they live.
Norah (11:19):
Okay.
Dad (11:21):
Okay.
Yeah, so.
So you lots of Sesame Streetornaments like I said, cuz you
were a big, a big fan of theses.
Yeah, it is a lots of, we'vemoved on to the Marvel ornaments
now.
We have lots of Marvelornaments.
It's just a, a lovely walk downmemory lane of.
Of our family and kind ofeverything that, that is the
(11:41):
ornament, the ornaments speak tokind of us as a family.
So the, the tree just becomes anice kind of, I was gonna say
living like memento, but thetree's, not, it's an artificial
tree, but it's, it's, it's a,it's, it's a tree.
So and it's, I can see it fromwhere I'm sitting as we're
recording.
It's, it's, it, it act, itactually looks really nice.
So, so that's up the house is,the outside of the house is
(12:02):
decorated with lights.
The stockings are up on themantle.
We're we're, we're ready.
We're ready for Santa to tovisit the house.
Norah (12:11):
Yes'.
Dad (12:12):
Are are, are you ready for Santa Claus?
Are you gonna go to bed Nice andearly on Christmas Eve so Santa
can deliver the gifts
Norah (12:17):
I go to bed nice and early every night.
Dad (12:20):
you do.
You're the only teenager inAmerica that is likes to be in
bed by nine o'clock at night.
Norah (12:27):
I enjoy my sleep.
Dad (12:29):
I know you do.
It's great.
Norah (12:30):
I don't know, it's not like I have like.
Dad (12:33):
Most teenagers stay up until like, I don't know, like,
like your brother, like tilllike 1, 2, 3 in the morning
doing whatever, and you're like,nine o'clock, like lights out,
I'm done.
Norah (12:43):
I don't know.
I don't like staying up lateunless I have to.
Like even when Ryan's over, thelatest I stay up is probably
like 1130.
Dad (12:51):
what a fun date you are.
Norah (12:54):
Yeah.
Dad (12:56):
Ha.
And so that was, I guess thatwas part one of the holiday
weekend.
And then part two was a wholelot of family time, which was
also which as we talked aboutlast time is my, is like my
favorite part of Thanksgiving.
But we got it in, we got it intwo doses.
(13:16):
So we had the Thanksgivingdinner on Thursday at in
Kathleen's house with like thewhole family.
And minus your uncle Pat who wasdown in Kentucky and, and then
oh, and Uncle Jerry who did notcome in cuz he was having car
trouble.
So we were Oh.
And Anna did not come in cuzshe's a doctor and she was on
(13:36):
call.
So we had, most of, most of thefamily was there.
And and we, and we feasted wefeasted a lot.
Did you say you did or did nothave my smoked.
Norah (13:48):
I did.
Donovan didn't
Dad (13:49):
You did, Donovan did not.
How was the how was the smoke?
Turkey?
Norah (13:53):
it was very TAs.
Dad (13:54):
Yum.
Yeah.
I would never I don't think I'dever cook a Turkey in a
different way ever in the futureother than what I did, which was
to, which is, this is my newfavorite word, spatchcock, which
is where you cut the backbone,the spine out of the bird, and
you kind of, Flat, which theysay make allows it to cook.
(14:15):
It definitely cooks faster butalso more evenly cuz you're
getting rid of that big opencavity in the middle of the
bird.
And then on, yeah, and then onthe smoker.
And it was, it was it wasamazing.
I thought it was amazing.
And you did not you did not getyour pie on Thursday night.
Norah (14:30):
no, I didn't, I wasn't feeling good.
Dad (14:33):
Yeah, that was your second thing.
It was your second dinner.
So
Norah (14:35):
yeah, I had, I had a, I had a slice of pie at the first
one.
Dad (14:39):
yeah.
It's understandable why yourbelly might not have you.
You've reached at the, the ripeage of 16.
You've reached the point in yourlife where you now have two
Thanksgivings to go to.
Norah (14:49):
Yeah.
Dad (14:50):
Yeah.
Mo Yeah.
Yeah.
So you were, you were.
No, it, no, it, it is normal.
But it's normal.
Like when you're in a No, it is,but usually, I don't know a lot
of, I don't know.
Do any of your friends go to twoThanksgivings?
Norah (15:03):
I don't really have any friends that are in
relationships.
Dad (15:07):
That's what I'm saying.
So it's like a relationshipthing.
But most 16 year olds are not atthat point in their life where
they have two Thanksgivings togo to.
So,
Norah (15:15):
I see what you're saying now.
Dad (15:16):
ah, so yeah, so understandable why you might be
full and not ready for.
Second pie on, on onThanksgiving night.
And then last night, Saturdaynights we had not really second,
second Thanksgiving, but yourfamily dinner.
We've historically done a familyadult dinner on the Saturday
(15:37):
after Thanksgiving.
We did not do that this year.
It's usually when we do it, it'sbeen out at a restaurant and
it's, it is no kids.
That's why we call it the adult
Norah (15:44):
too many adults were missing this.
Dad (15:46):
Yeah, there were a lot of adults that were missing and
then it's, it was and then yougotta find sitters for the
littles and whatever.
So we did not do second we didnot do adult dinner.
We did a family dinner at atyour cousin's house where your
Uncle Mike cooked a, an amazingprime rib.
(16:07):
And we.
Ate and we drank and we laughedand we played this rocking like
horse racing game that I hadnever heard of before, but it
was like a tremendous amount offun.
Norah (16:17):
Yeah, I thought it was fun.
I, mom and I did really well onour team.
Dad (16:21):
You did.
Do you want to maybe try andexplain like, how the game is
played?
Norah (16:24):
Let's see, so it's like, it's a horse betting games.
You get poker chips and.
At the beginning of the race,four horses are taken out.
So you roll the dye to see whichhorses one through 12 will be
taken out and it, so the firsthorse, you have to put one poker
chip in.
If you had that one, and thenthe last horse, you have to put
(16:46):
four and you kind of like go oneto four, how many chips you have
to put in, and then you justkeep rolling and whatever number
you roll on the die that.
like that's number of the horse.
And then you have to move thathorse one spot, but it's also
based off of the probability.
So like seven has the mostnumber of like possible outcomes
(17:09):
you can have while rolling adie.
While one and 12.
That can only, sorry, I thought,oh yeah, nevermind.
It's two through 12.
Two is, you can only get thatone way.
It was a very intense game.
Dad (17:25):
it was.
And then your Delta playingcards what, two through Queen.
And that's the cards that are inyour, you get the Delta four
cards and the cards in yourhands correspond to the numbers
of the horses.
And then if the horse that wins,the people that have, that are
holding the cards for those,those number horses split the
pot.
(17:47):
As the pot builds as you, cuzyou, as you're rolling the dice
and this horses that arescratched not in the race.
If you roll those numbers, youkeep throwing chips into the pot
and then you split the pot atthe end.
Or if you're lucky, which Idon't think happened to anybody
last night you're the only oneholding a card and then you, you
take the whole pot.
But it was.
He was super intent as we're allstanding around the, the kitchen
(18:09):
island rolling dice and likescreaming.
As my apple watch is telling meour decibel level was too high
last night as we're screaming atthe top of our lungs cheering on
the horses, trying to trying towin the pot of chips.
It was great.
Norah (18:21):
Oh, the dogs were barking.
It's going crazy.
Dad (18:25):
Yeah.
Like, I've never, yeah, it's,it's like the most, I've cheered
and screamed playing a, playinga game in some, it was a lot of
fun.
So I gotta figure out, I'll,I'll find, I'll find a link and
I'll drop the link in the, inthe show notes just to like,
where you can, like, if youwanna play where you can
actually find this game.
But it was a tremendous amountof fun.
(18:47):
And now we, and now you're backto school and we move on to the
to the rest of the holidayseason.
So good luck getting throughyour last three weeks of school.
Norah (18:55):
Thanks.
Dad (18:57):
Yeah, I, I mean, I think you'll be, I think you'll be
fine, but
Norah (19:00):
I'll be fine.
Dad (19:01):
yeah.
And then on to second semester,and, and then you, you'll
Norah (19:05):
We get like a nice two and a half week break first,
Dad (19:08):
do you guys get the longest winter break, which again is
super nice, but.
Two and a half weeks is a longbreak.
Norah (19:16):
and then third quarter is easy peasy.
Dad (19:18):
Easy peasy
Norah (19:19):
have like no full days of school
Dad (19:23):
I know between the holidays and then teacher in service days
and whatever, parent teacherconference days and spring
breaks and other things.
Yeah, you have very few.
And then snow, the inevitablesnow days that we're gonna get
here in northeast Ohio, you havevery few full weeks of school
between when, when you go backand like and when school ends in
(19:45):
May.
Norah (19:46):
No.
After spring break is when itpicks up, it's just third
quarter.
That's pretty.
Dad (19:51):
Yeah.
Well, so good luck on your last,whatever.
Good luck on your last threeweeks of school.
And yeah, we'll see everyoneback here in two weeks with lit
with another episode.
Anything, anything else youwanna add?
Norah (20:02):
Not really.
Hope you had a goodThanksgiving.
Dad (20:05):
We did.
I hope everyone else had a goodThanksgiving too.
We'll be back in two weeks ormaybe we can, we'll pick up on
the holiday theme and we'll talksome about, we can talk some
about Christmas in two weeks.
How's that sound?
Norah (20:16):
that works for me.
Dad (20:17):
That works.
All right.
We will see everyone back herein two weeks.
Love you, Nora.
Norah (20:25):
you too.
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