Mel!

Your episode on How to Have More Fun was literally life changing this holiday season.

My husband and I really struggled this year. To say the least, we did not have a lot of fun. We even had a separation. And then we decided to stick together. And then a month later came the holidays.

I could feel the judgement and ickyness creeping into my brain as we were planning to celebrate the holidays as a family all together for about 10 straight days which was forecasted to combine my family, his family and his son's mother's family. Do you know how much that could've sucked? Yeah, you do, and you had a podcast about driving a dang Fun Bus into the family headquarters and being judged for being hilarious instead of a hot mess. So...we did it.

We wore matching sparkly holiday blazers to fancy restaurants, we played two really fun, holiday games and we made our 80 year old parents bring White Elephant gifts to exchange-which they had never done before. We laughed, we were ridiculous, we sparkled, we had complete strangers comment on our blazers and we had FUN. I knew I'd be judged-like you said-so I decided to be judged for creating a lot of fun and started the movement. My husband and I showed up united. We wore our blazers, carried a huge board into my cousin's house during a blizzard with hot glued Solo Cups filled with gifts, made Jello Shots, wrapped gifts in funny wrapping paper and were all set to be judged...for bringing the fun. It was our season. It created smiles, joy and warm family memories.

So...thank you. And beep beep, I'll be driving that Fun Bus forever now!