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Celebrating the New Year with Traditions ~ Old & New!
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Dec 26, 2023
Join Mel and Caren for a toast to the New Year, as they bid farewell to 2023. They’ll share their favorite traditions, new ways to eat, drink and be merry, and reflect on the importance of making memories with loved ones. Whether you prefer a casual gathering or a fancy affair, Life Uncorked has something for everyone. #newyeartraditions #happynewyear #makingmemories 03:14 Unfussy holiday snacking with variety of food. 04:51 No bowl game this year, new adventure. 08:02 We enjoy playing games, especially on holidays. Click HERE for your complimentary copy of The Ultimate Napa Travel Guide: https://www.uncorked.online/napa-guide Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@carenglasser Subscribe to our Spotify Channel: https://spoti.fi/3oXWCL3 Get up to the minute updates, subscribe to our Instagram Broadcast channel: https://bit.ly/UNCORKEDBROADCASTCHANNEL Check out some of our favorite products in our Amazon Store: https://amzn.to/47PjaPx Listen to the Life Uncorked Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3JXij4K
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Hello everybody welcome back it's our
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special New Year's episode and we're
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excited I can't believe the year's
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ending I'm Mel and I'm
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Karen and we've been thinking about so
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many different things Karen we have we
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have but first cheers
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cheers and we're drinking out of our
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goino glasses you would not know sitting
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where you are out there guys that this
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is not glass this is plastic BPA non-bpa
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plastic dishwasher we love it I mean we
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have it we'll make sure to put a link
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down in the copy but this stuff is so
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good it's so good thank you thank you
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Vino because it has the little thumb
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right yeah make sure you get the right
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one if you're gonna if you're gonna get
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these These are the best goinos ever
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Karen what have we been thinking about
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this week so much with the end of the
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year coming
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as I where did the I I say this every
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day where did the time go how did we get
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here and I and it you know we've talked
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about in the last couple of shows
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appreciating every minute because time
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is just going so fast and here we are at
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the end of the year agre it's the end
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are you going to be celebrating I know
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I'm going to be celebrating a small
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little celebration but I'm celebrating
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and we laugh all the time because you
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celebrate different than I celebrate I'm
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paper plates and and you know paper cups
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and toothpicks
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that's me you're not you do something
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different well one thing that we do like
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whether whether you're using paper
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plates or Crystal it doesn't matter but
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you are welcoming people into your home
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to enjoy a special time and you're
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specifically enjoying being with them
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and that's what that's what's important
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and you food whether you cater it or
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create it yourself um we found that
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um snacking foods are best and you and I
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love shakery boards we do great way and
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and we made a really fun one together I
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think Karen you're going to show that
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I'm going to show it right now here we
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go oh I was really fun about that is
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that I I'm I can't do that crap like not
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that person but you don't have to be
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have however you do it and I wanted to
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share this I saw the coolest thing on
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Instagram this week it's a board I don't
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have the link I'm sorry but you can
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probably Google it it literally it's a
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beautiful wood board and it has like the
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layout so you just put like olives here
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I saw that I saw that I thought that was
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the coolest thing if you really wanted
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to to you know decorate it but I mean
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I've seen ones that that are like
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Christmas trees or snowmen and they're
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so creative and thematic shut boards yes
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it makes it really fun so I think again
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that speaks to being being authentic
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being who you are and getting as
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creative and exotic as you want to or
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just throw it all on like throw it all
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on on the plate doesn't yeah it doesn't
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matter whether you do fancy or you don't
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I mean I I always do a shakuri board
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during the holidays at least twice um
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because we tend to snack just like you
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know we don't do these big meals we
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would prefer to just you know touch this
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foot and just do this and just eat it um
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and in our case we do we do all the
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meats and the cheeses because that is
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something that my family loves but I saw
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one it was a taco shakery board I like
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dessert ones some morees I mean that's
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that's oh yeah oh might have to try that
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and it's so easy between Pinterest and
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Instagram and you can really see people
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who have really done the work and then
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you can just make it your own and
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another thing that's really fun is to
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try out new drinks over the holidays um
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Mel you actually recorded um a making a
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drink it was a bourbon
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smash cloves oh it's fabulous so take a
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[Applause]
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look that's from te and Gerard the Half
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Baked Harvest which you know is one of
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my go-to books and it's super simple and
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super yummy but today I'm drinking wine
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from our one of our favorite wine
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Partners hall Hall winery uh love Hall
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winery you know we'll put links on all
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that stuff down in the copy down there
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if you want to go check out um some of
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our favorite wines um and some of the
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other things that we've been been
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chatting about do you have traditions we
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do um I mean typically New Year's this
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will be the first year we're not going
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to a bowl game I mean even after Dylan
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graduated we still our friends that we
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support um who our coaches um and last
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year was the best one oh my God TCU
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played at the Fiesta Bowl and it was
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kind of like the Super Bowl for all of
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us up in Phoenix and it was really fun
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but we're not doing a bowl game this
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year and it's it's gonna be kind of
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weird I'm kind of excited because we're
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going on a new adventure that I'll share
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next month but um usually it's related
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to family we we're always
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together so we have two Traditions one
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is my tradition I make uh lotas I make
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potato pancakes every year I do it
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outside New Years not for New Years
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right right well actually yes I do it
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for New Years and the reason why I do it
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for new years's um is because I make
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little caviar Shooters and that is
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making little potato pancakes a little
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crem fresh and some caviar oh I want to
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come my God it's all I claims are not
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very bougie cavar on New Year I know and
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you pop them because they're like tiny
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things but I tend to make them over the
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holidays normally Hanukkah you know is
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is later this year we've already had it
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but I will make these little little
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caviar Shooters and I but I make them
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Outdoors ask me why I make them
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outo I have an electric fry pan and I
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make them Outdoors because literally the
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house smells like potatoes onions and
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oil for a month right after you make
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them and as much as I like it the day of
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I don't want to smell I wear a shower I
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literally put a shower cap on take
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pictures and show that I will I will do
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that the second tradition that we have
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and Michael and I have been doing this
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every year for as long as I can remember
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we have this little glass jar has a
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cover on it it's a one of those canning
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jars so it has an opening at the top but
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it's
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still and we have a little pad of little
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notes note paper and during the year we
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write notes to each other I love you
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thank you for doing this whatever it is
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and we create this Jar full of kindness
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is what I call it Jar full of kindness
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and at the end of the year on New Year's
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Eve we open up the jar and we read them
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back and forth to each other Karen I
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love that beautiful it's fun it's fun
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well and I think it's really because you
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probably do those spontaneously through
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the year and then to go back and have
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that time together and sit and it's fun
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it's definitely fun it's memorable and
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if you keep them from year to year oh
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wow it's really do do you date oh yeah
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oh yeah yeah we put the date sometimes
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so you could go back to like
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1990 and and see where you were as a
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couple family and oh what a great idea
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what we appreciated about each other and
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has that changed has it not changed you
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know because our lives have changed um
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and so that's always fun to do and it's
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a really it's a great family activity
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too for that matter it doesn't just
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that's one of those things it doesn't
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have to be just husband and wife or
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partner and partner it we play games too
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and I'm thinking that because I just
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picked up a couple we love games board
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games and card games that's a really fun
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thing to do on New Eve when the kids
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were young I I've never like and maybe
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it's because I bartended in college I
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hate going to bars on New Year's Eve New
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Year's Eve and St Patrick's Day I always
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used to say those are amateur days I
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don't like to go to parties on New
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Year's either and we would have family
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parties so at our friends with all the
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kids and do things with the children
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as and other families and that would be
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the New Year celebration and that was
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always nice too that's that's awesome I
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again it's all about making memories
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yeah it's all about making me and again
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it's all F it's families can do this
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this is not just for you know you your
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families can play games your families
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can do a jar your families can do a lot
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of things jar would be really fun for
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families too because kids you could
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trace like what's going on in their
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lives as they grow that's a beautiful
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start or like we we we have have those
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leaves remember you got those leaves the
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for decorations speak smaller ones have
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those and let people write their notes
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on that and then put that in there you
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can also papier-mâché the jar if you're
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going to do a kid activity there's so
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many things to do um it's about creating
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the
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experience yeah absolutely and that's
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what this season has been this whole
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month has been trying
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to Wade through and not let the
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overwhelm get to us and enjoy en these
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memories and these opportunities to
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create memories and special moments with
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family and
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friends so we want to say to all of you
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happy New Year thank you for being a
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part of our journey and we wish you only
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joy and happiness and good health next
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year cheers to
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2024 and as we said make sure you check
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down below in the copy we have links to
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some of the things that we talked about
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and most importantly check out the Napa
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travel guide we are so proud of it Mel
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week next week
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ciao
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