December 8, 2025 • 9 mins
Christmas is around the corner and Sky's daughter was getting her list together to give Sky and her husband. That's when Sky makes a bizzare suggestion that sent her daughter as well as us into major confusion
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why are you making suggestions that doesn't she you know,
have like her own like Christmas list or whatever that
she wants.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh yeah, so probably about three years ago, my daughter
started with the PowerPoint presentations.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is one of the wilder things that I've ever
heard in my life. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
So instead of a Christmas list that's just written on
a piece of paper and you hand to your mom
or dad, And now comes the day where we all
sit in the living room. She screen shares her phone
to the living room TV and then presents her PowerPoint presentation,
which has animation on it, snose falling.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You sit there and watch.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It, Yeah, I mean crazy, It's.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Like you don't, oh, hey, like this is great.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Like the first time she does it, all right, maybe
she's like eight, and you're like, this is great. But
then after that it's like, hey, from here on out, list,
I'm just sitting here.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I waste my time with your with your stuff. Well
that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Well wait till you get there.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Missed a fresh warm towel out of the towel because
my baby can only old.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Not sixteen. So I think there's a difference.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I think.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You said you would never be that guy, and I'm
just letting you know. As your son gets older, your
views may change a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Do you watch power Would you watch a Power present Kids?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Christ?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No, of course not. Excuse me, miss I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean, well, no, you don't, but you would, right
if your kid made a Power Boys presentation that takes
like two minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
This isn't like a forty five minute thing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, I just tell them to send it to me.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Oh so send you the Power Boys President. I guess yeah,
I'd probably humor read my son I said every year.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I guess you would get over it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'd be over it, but I'd probably humor him just
to be nice.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Okay, but yeah, thank god, he just shoots me a
text with a couple of ideas, right.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So yeah, So this started about three years ago, and
honestly it is pretty legit. I mean, it takes all
the surprise out of it for her, but the Power
Po presentation has links, so and the link goes exactly
to the color and the.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Size of exactly what she wants.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So it really makes it, honestly, very easy, but takes
some of the surprise out of it. And I would
think so, so this is something that's been going on
for a while. And tier's another fact to what's going
on with Christmas in our house this year is my
daughter's birthday is mid November, and when they're little and
(02:29):
they want every little toy and every little thing in
the world, Like, okay, not a problem. There's plenty of
gifts out there. But now at sixteen years old, she
just had her birthday where we spoiled her and bought her,
you know, all the clothing items she wants from Hollister
and all this little jewelry stuff she wants. So now
with Christmas, I'm like, this chick's closets are overflowing, like
(02:52):
she has.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
So much stuff. You have the power point, right, Well,
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Seen the PowerPoint yet, but I know the power point
is coming right because there's been talks of her being like, oh,
I gotta get working on that so I can get
it to you guys. And that's when I decided to
make a suggestion, because this is also the time of
year that I start to get a bunch of catalogs
in the mail of gifts that I've ordered years pass.
(03:18):
Like one year Eddie suggested this, like Wine Country Gift
Basket Company. If you're ever looking for a gift basket
for somebody. I ordered from them once. Now I get
a catalog this time of the year, every single year,
and there's lots of places like that, and a handful
of them happened to be charity organizations. I've done the
(03:42):
thing in years past for the what is it the
people that the WWEFA with the WWF, the World Wildlife Federation,
they do a thing where you pay for some overpriced
little stuffed animal, but the money goes to help zebras
or whatever. Yes, and then there's my favorite charity, the
(04:02):
one where you can buy like goats for people, like
you can buy a goat for a village in a
third world coast.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How do you know that that actually happens, you, real, suspect,
How do you actually know that they actually get.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
To go that they got the pay I don't want
to see it go down here.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah it doesn't see a hesitation of the goat a
dozen chickens.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I figure because there's such a massive organization that hopefully
they're legit.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But I have done a lot of massive charity organizations
that aren't the most hurt.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I know, I google this one. I tried to
look into it as much as I could. I don't know,
you know, whatever the internet says, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
So so I'm getting all.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
These catalogs and it gives me a thought, and instead
of like sitting down and processing the thought, I just
spit it out to the family, my daughter and my husband.
And that's when I told him or them I should
say that I think we should to do maybe one
or two gifts this year and the rest be charity donations.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
God, you just so in like your daughter's name.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, oh boy, this guy, the holidays aren't about giving.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That was really weird thing to say you need a break?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah you could do this like that, But I mean
that's not in lieu of yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
No, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I know, because that's when we're and we're saying, no,
that's not what kid would be like. You know what, mom,
and what I know you walk around and tell everybody
when you donate to charity. But you know, maybe I
could start doing that.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, or your kid says, you know, I don't want
everyone in the world to know that I donate to
charity or donate blood.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So why don't we just do it and not say anything.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But that's that defeats the purpose.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You need a cat on the back.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I didn't say, why why do you have to do
this for Christmas and birthday? Because kids don't want this? Now,
why can't you just donate? What my old's like, Yeah,
why can't she just donate money in February?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well she could, and she shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
She I would like her to, but that's all we're
talking about right now. We're talking about, like that would
be great if I had a daughter who was like,
I want to do chores to turn money to donate
to charity in February, but like, this is the time
when money and gifts are coming in. So instead of
her having to work for money to donate to charity
(06:29):
in February, right now, we can take some of that
and donate it now. And I had explained to her
how she got like a super nice, expensive advent calendar
that's basically like a gift, and so I told her
that's already like presence, Like you're already getting presents. You
(06:49):
just had your birthday. Because my husband was all for
this idea, AKA, he won't have to buy people presents.
So he's stoked, you know, because he's not the best
gift giver.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Sorry, sorry, baby, but she did not like this idea
like you saw.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Wait a minute, I'm shock showing me a sixteen year
old girl didn't like the idea of not getting presents
on Christmas.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yes, I am, I'm telling you that'ning.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Why not just do it for just you and your husband?
Between the two of you, you guys don't get each
other any gifts.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You do this because we got her gifts, because we
barely get each other gifts as it is, like, honestly,
we just do it so we can have stuff under
the tree. So our daughter doesn't like feel alone opening presents,
but if we.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Could funny, right, Oh my god, you don't get you
the gifts.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, we got each other electric curtains this year. They're
already up, they were just installed.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That you were doing that anyway, that's Christmas gift. Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They were more expensive than we wanted to pay. And
then we said, this is our Christmas gift to one
and other.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's so easy.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So my husband clearly all in, but my daughter no.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And then I tried to talk to her because she's
like very you know, I think, like a lot of
kids are you know her heart just wells for animals,
So like if there's dogs that can't be adopted, if
there's a whale tangled in a fishing net, like like,
I mean, she gets so upset and like.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
How can we help? How can we do something?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So I'm telling her, this is how we can help,
Like you can you get to pick the charities. I'm
thinking I'm about to nail it here with this argument,
same look on the face, like I've just ruined Christmas.
I've just taken a turn in the living room, like
basically under the train.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
She just volunteered society. You can do that.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's like you have to commit to like a shift
like every week. So a kid going to school, like
you can't. Well, like it's like it's a commitment. It's
like a job basically, like to sign up, you have
to do so many hours.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
So did you tell her.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
About the goat that you can get for the village?
About it?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So if you can pick between goats, Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Excuse me, it's it's for milk.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And okay, I'm sure, I'm sure you're not got all hungry.
That ridiculously suggest is the worst suggestion in the history
of suggestions.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That idea got completely poo pooed. Now my whole family
hates me so so thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Sounds about right. It sounds about right.
Why are you making suggestions that doesn't she you know,
have like her own like Christmas list or whatever that
she wants.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh yeah, so probably about three years ago, my daughter
started with the PowerPoint presentations.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is one of the wilder things that I've ever
heard in my life. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
So instead of a Christmas list that's just written on
a piece of paper and you hand to your mom
or dad, And now comes the day where we all
sit in the living room. She screen shares her phone
to the living room TV and then presents her PowerPoint presentation,
which has animation on it, snose falling.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You sit there and watch.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It, Yeah, I mean crazy, It's.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Like you don't, oh, hey, like this is great.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Like the first time she does it, all right, maybe
she's like eight, and you're like, this is great. But
then after that it's like, hey, from here on out, list,
I'm just sitting here.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I waste my time with your with your stuff. Well
that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Well wait till you get there.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Missed a fresh warm towel out of the towel because
my baby can only old.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Not sixteen. So I think there's a difference.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I think.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You said you would never be that guy, and I'm
just letting you know. As your son gets older, your
views may change a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Do you watch power Would you watch a Power present Kids?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Christ?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No, of course not. Excuse me, miss I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean, well, no, you don't, but you would, right
if your kid made a Power Boys presentation that takes
like two minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
This isn't like a forty five minute thing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, I just tell them to send it to me.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Oh so send you the Power Boys President. I guess yeah,
I'd probably humor read my son I said every year.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I guess you would get over it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'd be over it, but I'd probably humor him just
to be nice.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Okay, but yeah, thank god, he just shoots me a
text with a couple of ideas, right.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So yeah, So this started about three years ago, and
honestly it is pretty legit. I mean, it takes all
the surprise out of it for her, but the Power
Po presentation has links, so and the link goes exactly
to the color and the.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Size of exactly what she wants.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So it really makes it, honestly, very easy, but takes
some of the surprise out of it. And I would
think so, so this is something that's been going on
for a while. And tier's another fact to what's going
on with Christmas in our house this year is my
daughter's birthday is mid November, and when they're little and
(02:29):
they want every little toy and every little thing in
the world, Like, okay, not a problem. There's plenty of
gifts out there. But now at sixteen years old, she
just had her birthday where we spoiled her and bought her,
you know, all the clothing items she wants from Hollister
and all this little jewelry stuff she wants. So now
with Christmas, I'm like, this chick's closets are overflowing, like
(02:52):
she has.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
So much stuff. You have the power point, right, Well,
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Seen the PowerPoint yet, but I know the power point
is coming right because there's been talks of her being like, oh,
I gotta get working on that so I can get
it to you guys. And that's when I decided to
make a suggestion, because this is also the time of
year that I start to get a bunch of catalogs
in the mail of gifts that I've ordered years pass.
(03:18):
Like one year Eddie suggested this, like Wine Country Gift
Basket Company. If you're ever looking for a gift basket
for somebody. I ordered from them once. Now I get
a catalog this time of the year, every single year,
and there's lots of places like that, and a handful
of them happened to be charity organizations. I've done the
(03:42):
thing in years past for the what is it the
people that the WWEFA with the WWF, the World Wildlife Federation,
they do a thing where you pay for some overpriced
little stuffed animal, but the money goes to help zebras
or whatever. Yes, and then there's my favorite charity, the
(04:02):
one where you can buy like goats for people, like
you can buy a goat for a village in a
third world coast.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How do you know that that actually happens, you, real, suspect,
How do you actually know that they actually get.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
To go that they got the pay I don't want
to see it go down here.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah it doesn't see a hesitation of the goat a
dozen chickens.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I figure because there's such a massive organization that hopefully
they're legit.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But I have done a lot of massive charity organizations
that aren't the most hurt.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I know, I google this one. I tried to
look into it as much as I could. I don't know,
you know, whatever the internet says, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
So so I'm getting all.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
These catalogs and it gives me a thought, and instead
of like sitting down and processing the thought, I just
spit it out to the family, my daughter and my husband.
And that's when I told him or them I should
say that I think we should to do maybe one
or two gifts this year and the rest be charity donations.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
God, you just so in like your daughter's name.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, oh boy, this guy, the holidays aren't about giving.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That was really weird thing to say you need a break?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah you could do this like that, But I mean
that's not in lieu of yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
No, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I know, because that's when we're and we're saying, no,
that's not what kid would be like. You know what, mom,
and what I know you walk around and tell everybody
when you donate to charity. But you know, maybe I
could start doing that.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, or your kid says, you know, I don't want
everyone in the world to know that I donate to
charity or donate blood.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So why don't we just do it and not say anything.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But that's that defeats the purpose.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You need a cat on the back.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I didn't say, why why do you have to do
this for Christmas and birthday? Because kids don't want this? Now,
why can't you just donate? What my old's like, Yeah,
why can't she just donate money in February?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well she could, and she shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
She I would like her to, but that's all we're
talking about right now. We're talking about, like that would
be great if I had a daughter who was like,
I want to do chores to turn money to donate
to charity in February, but like, this is the time
when money and gifts are coming in. So instead of
her having to work for money to donate to charity
(06:29):
in February, right now, we can take some of that
and donate it now. And I had explained to her
how she got like a super nice, expensive advent calendar
that's basically like a gift, and so I told her
that's already like presence, Like you're already getting presents. You
(06:49):
just had your birthday. Because my husband was all for
this idea, AKA, he won't have to buy people presents.
So he's stoked, you know, because he's not the best
gift giver.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Sorry, sorry, baby, but she did not like this idea
like you saw.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Wait a minute, I'm shock showing me a sixteen year
old girl didn't like the idea of not getting presents
on Christmas.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yes, I am, I'm telling you that'ning.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Why not just do it for just you and your husband?
Between the two of you, you guys don't get each
other any gifts.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You do this because we got her gifts, because we
barely get each other gifts as it is, like, honestly,
we just do it so we can have stuff under
the tree. So our daughter doesn't like feel alone opening presents,
but if we.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Could funny, right, Oh my god, you don't get you
the gifts.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, we got each other electric curtains this year. They're
already up, they were just installed.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That you were doing that anyway, that's Christmas gift. Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They were more expensive than we wanted to pay. And
then we said, this is our Christmas gift to one
and other.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's so easy.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So my husband clearly all in, but my daughter no.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And then I tried to talk to her because she's
like very you know, I think, like a lot of
kids are you know her heart just wells for animals,
So like if there's dogs that can't be adopted, if
there's a whale tangled in a fishing net, like like,
I mean, she gets so upset and like.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
How can we help? How can we do something?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So I'm telling her, this is how we can help,
Like you can you get to pick the charities. I'm
thinking I'm about to nail it here with this argument,
same look on the face, like I've just ruined Christmas.
I've just taken a turn in the living room, like
basically under the train.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
She just volunteered society. You can do that.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's like you have to commit to like a shift
like every week. So a kid going to school, like
you can't. Well, like it's like it's a commitment. It's
like a job basically, like to sign up, you have
to do so many hours.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
So did you tell her.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
About the goat that you can get for the village?
About it?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So if you can pick between goats, Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Excuse me, it's it's for milk.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And okay, I'm sure, I'm sure you're not got all hungry.
That ridiculously suggest is the worst suggestion in the history
of suggestions.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That idea got completely poo pooed. Now my whole family
hates me so so thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Sounds about right. It sounds about right.
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