The Southern Night Before Christmas Book

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[@user-cj3wh1rm1m]

in my opinion, books with real paper pages are way better than iPad screens before bedtime... it's just an experience that cannot be replaced by screens

[@heartofthewild680]

There is science to back that up, actually. Your brain interprets the light from the screens as daylight, which tricks it into thinking it’s daytime and makes it harder for you to fall asleep.

[@paulmoore7064]

On the upside, you don't need to sneak a flashlight up to bed.

[@pakristofzski]

You're not wrong! But it is nice to not have a flashlight too. My baby is 9 mos & hates that she can't help turn pages yet so bedtime story is read as fast as you can and help her turn the pages, lol! Looking forward to chapter books like the Hobbit when she's a bit older and doing a chapter a night!

[@paulmoore7064]

@@pakristofzski I read "The Hobbit" to my kids, then, by popular demand, "The Lord of the Rings". It took a while. Tolkien is great when read aloud.

[@kaldo_kaldo]

@@heartofthewild680 That's the beauty of e-ink like Kindle, it's not a light-emitting screen, in the dark you can't read it (unless you get one with a backlight) but for your eyes and brain it's identical to a book

[@FreakinfreakInfreaki]

"Bless your hear can mean a lot of different things and as you get older you learn to interpret whether or not you're being insulted." This is such a true statement lol

[@cindyedgerton3582]

This one is like your hair looks pretty today when they catch you saying something about them.

[@laceydo4542]

My coworker ordered one, and when I saw it on her desk, y'all best believe we set aside enough time to discuss our favorite It's A Southern Thing videos, and what merchandise we wanted to buy!

[@LongWalkerActual]

💕💕💕💕Talia Lin brightens my day!!❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@multifandom_comfort_charac6894]

Me a few weeks ago: This year, I promise myself I won’t be TOO deep into the Christmas spirit before Thanksgiving. Me after watching it’s a southern thing Christmas videos: JINGLE BELLS!!! JINGLE BELLS!!!

[@stijn2472]

JINGLE ALL THE WAY!!!

[@gator_productions]

No going b4 Thanksgiving kinda ruins the fun it's more fun to wait for Thanksgiving

[@DR-rw7es]

My tree went up a week ago. 2020 demands more Christmas spirit!! 🎄🛷🦌🤶🎅🎁

[@xione0825]

Batman smells! Robin laid an egg!

[@kleinemaus6094]

*SANTAAAAAAA!!!! OHMYGOSH I KNOW HIM!!!!!* 😂😂😂

[@stephengalindo6340]

While I'm home now, this reminded me of the Christmases I've spent away from home with the military. There is no substitute for a southern Christmas, especially when you're far from home

[@drjeff5812]

Brings back many fond memories of Christmas in South Carolina growing up. Especially the refrigerator and cousins everywhere.

[@malloryjines5050]

Thank you, I needed that! Out west but dad was a good southern man!

[@nathanjplatt]

Its 2020 nothing matters schedule wise.....we can have a Christmas video before Thanksgiving.... it's close enough. We need joy. I say Merry Christmas.

[@angelg.8462]

Merry Christmas!🎄🍬🌟🔔📯⛄

[@kateg5763]

Merry Christmas!!

[@Snappychugdog]

Merry Christmas Yall

[@sabellabreeze8960]

merry Christmas

[@DefinitelyNotAnAlien]

And happy New Year.

[@alliejeanne]

We all know how Santa got fat. Santa was fat before he at all those cookies. The fact was, he couldn’t turn down southern grandmas Christmas cookies.

[@r.kellycoker1981]

They weren't cookies, they were biscuits. And this is the cutest thing for Christmas. I didn't see the little girls name but she has to be Talia's real daughter.

[@leert2698]

I didn’t know if he was going to get biscuits or moon pies !

[@alliejeanne]

@@r.kellycoker1981 My ability to pay attention to things clearly is very low if I don't know the difference between Biscuits and Cookies. Maybe it's because I couldn't find the gravy...

[@barbararose88]

@@alliejeanne Well, unless you are British, who call cookis biscuits!

[@Cyna411]

Fabulous! My son and his family moved from Alabama to California. I need this book for my grandson who is being raised out of the South.

[@djonpow]

Gonna be OK as long as they teach em that being "Southern" is a state of mind and heart!...Merry Christmas y'all!

[@c.j.4014]

I 100% want to start reading this every year as a new tradition.

[@sheryladams1964]

Sooo cute! We live in the south. The story was perfect! 🙂🙂🙂🎄🎄🎄

[@janettamcgee8124]

Y'all brought back memories of my Grandmother's house at Christmas in the 1960's. We cousins loved to see how many of us could gram under her huge (to us) 8 feet dining room table to sleep because she only had 2 bedrooms.. Some of the teen boys slept on her small screened in back porch with a small stove because Christmas in Texas is not always cold. Most of the adults were "loaned" out to her neighbor's spare bedrooms. We kids got to stay put. Simply magical! Thanks for the memories.

[@matthewluck9077]

the fact that you didn’t say “not a critter was stirring” is a travesty

[@srkh8966]

Uh-it’s the South, so critters are definitely stirring lol

[@Goises]

@@srkh8966 THANK YOU

[@GoddessNeith]

She's not Ellie May Clampet you know.

[@thesavvyblackbird]

The dogs and cats stirred inside, while the possums and raccoons rooted through the trash because they knew that extra people meant good eating awaits.

[@thesavvyblackbird]

All those Christmas goodies were the best part of the holidays. My mom used to make the best coconut cake. 4 layers of yellow or white cake (2 layers split in half, box or homemade). The coconut filling was 2 cups of granulated sugar mixed with 2 cups of sour cream. Mix in a bag of frozen shredded coconut. Fill and top the cake with the coconut mixture and let it sit in the fridge for 3-4 days. It was a Christmas favorite because it was usually cold enough to put it in a Tupperware cake carriers and set it in the garage. The filling soaks into the cake and is sooo good. You can also make it as a sheet cake, but it’s prettier in layers.

[@thevictorianconservative1093]

I want it known, there IS an honest to God Cajun Christmas too!

[@rustbucket1728]

You mean a pirogue pulled by gators?

[@dbackscott]

@@rustbucket1728 I think I actually read that book.

[@karenmalay3046]

Yep. And I’ve read it,

[@wildfireintexas]

Yes dear, we know.

[@crystalbaker6743]

It's every babies first Christmas from me. Lol

[@jordanhicks5131]

I'd love this as a children's book if I was that age

[@TheCripeCrew]

Did I see a cast iron frying pan under the tree? I thought those were handed down from generation to generation. Did someone mess up and put the old one in the dishwasher?

[@andrewp8284]

Sounds like an investigation for the Southern Vittles Unit

[@rustbucket1728]

If you got too many cousins there ain't enough skillets to pass down

[@tracigresham7164]

@@andrewp8284 🤣

[@lf206]

You have to start somewhere. That was for one of the Cousins to start seasoning and cooking in, so it’ll be ready as a gift for *their* grandchildren. You know, plant trees so someone else can eat the fruit.

[@SheepdogSmokey]

@@lf206 I bought my own a few months ago, my Mama still uses hers so I'm starting on my own.

[@conniefoxx9813]

Awesome! I think maybe next year get some apple butter for them biscuits. ;)

[@MILLER-xl6fc]

The power of a southern mom

[@GabbyMoore13]

Thank you. Rather emotional time headed in to these holidays and this made me laugh and cry as a miss placed southerner abroad, I thank y’all

[@myblacklab7]

Bless your heart! (in a good way)

[@intigniadickey2224]

The illustrations are so colorful and fun. I hope this book becomes a Christmas classic like the original.

[@Editorknowsbest]

For some reason I read your final sentence with the word "one" on the end. I thought you were to rhyme like the book. Ha ha. Must have still had the verse stuck in my head reading through the comments.

[@intigniadickey2224]

@@Editorknowsbest : D

[@jettahammond2916]

@@Editorknowsbest me too 😂

[@slcRN1971]

@@Editorknowsbest 😆 I added that in my head too, then read your comment and realized the word ‘one’ at the end wasn’t actually there.

[@Nurichiri]

To all of you complaining it's not Christmas yet I say well, duh. This gives you all time to get that book.

[@melaniezirixa1239]

Yep

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

I ain't gon' lie. I usually hate seeing Christmas shit so early especially during Halloween. But this year? ........I'll allow it.

[@karenkane7125]

So true ya'll

[@sheem.2450]

I'm not from the south, I'm from New York City. But I love this channel! And I love the book! Lol Its January now and really cold. I love how this book talked about the cousins sleeping on the floor. It gave me so many memories.❤

[@macdaiddavidson8051]

I’m not a southern girl but I sure love that version of a Night Before Christmas. Sweet dreams y’all’s!!

[@tonibauer2949]

Wow. What gorgeous illustrations for that cute story. Outstanding. And yes, I recall at least one Christmas Day in South Georgia where we had to turn on the AC. But, what I really remember vividly was hanging decorations outside on the eaves of the house while being absolutely swarmed by gnats! So freakin’ annoying!

[@jimtilley1158]

I can confirm, Flip Flops on the roof are dangerous, LOL

[@lizard6444]

Love this!! Y'all are awesome! Sending you some NY love ❤

[@anam.andrade-hoscheit3015]

Better than a midwestern Christmas. Hello from Illinois

[@elroy8272]

Hi from Champaign, Illinois Enjoyed this version, y'all.

[@gregorymeyer8863]

At least we have a change of seasons sometimes in the same day

[@samanthamattson5872]

I'm from Minnesota, and during the month of October we had 70 degree weather, over a foot of snow, thunderstorms, 50 mile an hour winds and more. That's the Midwest for you lol

[@danicegewiss862]

@@gregorymeyer8863 overnight we have winter. During the day we have fall in Pennsylvania right now.

[@adamolsen7328]

I'm a stupid Illinoisan that is a sucker for snow on the ground at Christmas. ... unfortunately mother nature didn't listen to when I asked for snow to melt and spring to start on January 2nd

[@Muldernscully1013]

I appreciated The Princess Bride homage.

[@emilys3638]

I would have never noticed if you hadn't pointed it out! Brilliant!

[@aaronjohnson6427]

What does that mean?

[@Muldernscully1013]

@@aaronjohnson6427 this skit was styled after the movie’The Princess Bride’.

[@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen]

Itsasouthernthing cares

[@lesliemoiseauthor]

This is darling. I love the art.

[@redwhiteandlu5839]

I loved this video! I am from the south so I can not remember a white Christmas.

[@jessycassidy4325]

I love it! Thank you for my first Christmas story of 2020. Its great to have a KZbin channel I can understand, relate to and don't have to think twice about my littles being around when I watch. I want this book for them!

[@Kenwyfe29]

This is definitely a true Alabama Christmas story

[@stijn2472]

Why just Alabama?

[@Kenwyfe29]

@@stijn2472 idk that’s the only place I’ve celebrated Christmas 🤣

[@megane7742]

Watching the Yule log on TV. 😊

[@lululemon5532]

South Ga. too!✝️☮️

[@ririmr4978]

And Tennessee, GO VOLS!

[@k7lewis394]

Well that was just lovely! If I can’t get the book ordered I might just play this video again closer to Christmas 💜

[@annetheurich507]

Love it! Used to find & buy my Daddy these type of books. Have a Cajun Night Before Christmas, Cowboy Night Before Christmas, etc. He’s not here with us anymore but my mom will love🎅🏻🤶🏻🎄

[@sallyphillips9175]

Ha, I'm in extreme NW Georgia, and it's usually freezing here on Christmas Eve/Day! We get all four seasons. MERRY CHRISTMAS, Y'ALL!

[@tonibauer2949]

Sally Phillips I lived in South Georgia, and I was so thrilled if it was really cold on Christmas instead of warm and humid, that you would think it had snowed. It only snowed once in the good many years I lived there, and that was on March 13, not Christmas!

[@sallyphillips9175]

@@tonibauer2949 We don't get snow every year. It varies greatly. Some winters we don't get any; others we get one big snow. In 2010, we got 5 inches Christmas Day and 10 inches in January. White Christmases are rare. Was the March 13 snow the Blizzard of '93?

[@tonibauer2949]

Sally Phillips yes, it surely was in 93. You never saw such a bunch of shocked South Georgians. I actually moved to the Seattle area in 1996, and thought there would be lots of snow every winter as we are so far north. But having so much Pacific Ocean water around us means the winters are generally pretty mild. We can get a few flakes, a blizzard that shuts down everything, or something in between. Last year we didn’t have more than a light sprinkle, but then, we very oddly got one this year in October which I have t seen here before. Hoping you and yours have a good Thanksgiving and stay safe and healthy.

[@nicholasharshbarger4454]

I live in Knoxville, and that’s true. We have great weather... except February.

[@lululemon5532]

I live in southeast Ga & we maybe had 2 days of cold weather last year! And my a/c is running as I type this! Happy Thanksgiving y’all!✝️☮️

[@divarachelenvy]

all those weather references apply to us Aussies at Christmas time too lol.

[@catwhisperer9489]

The thing about the cousins, everywhere.... I can SOOOO relate!! I can remember a family reunion, down home, in the holler.... I didn't know even half the people, there! Everybody kept asking who I belonged to (I was a kid), and when I told them, they said "Oh, yeah, I remember when you were knee-high to a grasshopper", and then told me a story about someone in my family!! LOL I loved the thing about "bless your heart"!! LOL

[@TheWabbit]

Awesome! Kid is right though, got to have gravy with those biscuits!

[@macdaiddavidson8051]

Oh my I just loved that southern Christmas story.

[@Thecrazynecklacelady]

I'm from Louisiana. Read the Cajun Night Before Christmas lol!

[@RichTexas82513]

"does it involve magic andddd... Wild cats?" Haha I get that reference!

[@JayFeather321]

At least we have a few specific you tubers for said series, and the people can figure out what we're talking about.

[@MarionStevensJr]

It's inconceivable that anyone couldn't figure it out.

[@RichTexas82513]

@@MarionStevensJr to be fair, a lot of people who watch this channel are past the age when this came out (25+)

[@MarionStevensJr]

@@RichTexas82513 true. It's a movie that everyone should see, though, no matter how old they are. I wish it'd get another theatrical release at some point. I never got to see it in the theater, but I'd definitely go, given the opportunity.

[@katherineknapp6604]

🤠🌲 HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND MERRY CHRISTMAS YA'LL!!

[@igotbandaids]

We love our iced tea and flip flops definitely. I adore this cute story.

[@pca1987]

So sweet. But y'all should try spending Christmas here in Brazil, where it's summer that time of the year. Then we'll talk about a hot Christmas. In my region in particular it almost always rains too.

[@andreagriffiths3512]

And here in Australia it also gets hot being in summer and all. Though Melbourne can be a mixed bag - boiling hot or overcast and muggy or cool and raining. My family are transplants from England and it took us decades to switch from a traditional English Christmas dinner to a more Aussie friendly bbq style meal with salads.

[@pca1987]

@@andreagriffiths3512 Yeah. I want to visit Australia one day. Have a nice day.

[@ViktoriousDead]

There’s always one gatekeeper....

[@pca1987]

@@ViktoriousDead Yeah. Just like you're acting right now, eh? 🤣😘

[@jawjagrrl]

In Georgia we often have a wet (rainy) Christmas. Running AC isn't unusual.

[@robertanthonyanthony9898]

I’m from Ga. too y’all better get your voten’ done right Bless your heart

[@The_Dudester]

Well done. Well done. Wish my family lived in the 21st century so I could send this to them.

[@vwhite3055]

I'm just glad you pronounced "pecan" correctly!

[@aprilwycherley]

That’s something that I noticed, too! Lol

[@richarddavis6547]

You expected anything different? -lol

[@ashleytrueblood2200]

Not correct

[@ashleytrueblood2200]

@@aprilwycherley You must be from Texas

[@ashleytrueblood2200]

Fake ass Southern accent.

[@cddagr]

Yo! So much nostalgia just now. Love it! 🥰

[@darlenegattus8190]

Absolutely adorable, would love to send this book to my Southern in laws. Still all the same, would not trade my cold weather Christmas 's for anything. Great video!

[@jenniferbaldini3527]

Southern Santa tradition: Biscuits and sweet tea. Pittsburgh yinzer tradition: a shot of Crown Royal and a beer, cause Santa gets cold n'at.😉

[@loughlinpagnucci8182]

Santa needs to bring yinz an o line for Christmas.

[@jenniferbaldini3527]

@@loughlinpagnucci8182 'Stillers' Nation agrees, and we ain't jaggin around n'at. 😉

[@CTVM2]

May this Go Viral!! Amen. 🙏🏼

[@avaclark7094]

Yo, I'm from GA and love yall so much!!!!

[@EvilCarrotSauce]

Greetings fellow Georgian! Our weather has been really weird lately. 80 degrees during the day and 35 at night.

[@avaclark7094]

Very strange

[@joshuamensah-woode5377]

I love you It's a Southern thing!!!!

[@mondobe]

Y’all are such good actors!! What an adorable book! Hey from Georgia

[@michellenash6802]

OMGOSH!!!!! That was awesome y'all....'bless your sweet heart ' is definitely something ALL southerners know, lol!! That was awesome! Your artist is awesome-as well as the writer! Merry Christmas y'all!

[@timothyaldridge5363]

I enjoyed the story. Enjoyed a southern momma reading it. Wish you would have mentioned Jesus and the reason for celebration of Christmas.

[@drewkeyack990]

This is one of your best videos ever! 😍 I love the sweet-as-peaches illustrations/animation, & the story is so cute! 🎄 Well done, everyone at IAST! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@bethwhitaker8151]

That is the cutest and most clever Christmas story!! I loved it!

[@DreamingCatStudio]

Brilliant! Kudos to writer and illustrator!

[@nickyonstilts128]

The illustrations, esp. of children, are just darling! Well done Michelle Hazelwood Hyde.

[@TheEdiya]

When she read "Blessed Christmas to ya'll" my first thought was, 'Which one is he wishing well?' In my region, it'd be, "Blessed Christmas to all ya'll." :) :)

[@thequietman9464]

The AC on while there is a fire going in the fireplace...yep Hope y’all have a Merry Christmas

[@trinasaussiegarden244]

Love this! Well done y’all!

[@tyradawkins1630]

I LOVE THIS! Congratulations on another successful and MUCH NEEDED Book

[@emorobin3901]

Ayyy Talia’s back! Yay! It just wasn’t the same without her in the last vid

[@kristindowner9897]

This great! This Ranks right up there with “There was a coyote who swallowed a flea,” the Tex-Mex version of the classic , “ little old woman who swallowed a fly” poem!

[@beckyparker2530]

What a wonderful story!! I need to add this to our family traditions!!! Thank you bunches for sharing, y'all!!! 🥰🥰🥰🎄☃️🎅

[@zSpirall]

Super awesome book... love it so much... bless your sweet little heart...

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Ah, I spy a Ninjago set in the background He has great taste in toys

[@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen]

I was looking for this comment

[@meganpaille3267]

In Louisiana Santa comes in a piero with alligators 🤣

[@bieuxyongson]

True Dat cher.

[@dindixie]

I just posted a link to one of WLOX's annual rebroadcasts. Not sure when they started doing that, but it's been a LONG time.

[@ilovecheezitz]

Also instead of Santa, we call him Papa Noel. Atleast the South does. North Louisiana (where I'm from) call him Santa

[@forcedmedia]

Our Studio appreciates the the family quality entertainment ya'll produce. Keep up the great work and we look forward to the next episode.👍🏼👍🏼

[@pamelaanis715]

Loved the skillet under the Christmas tree!

[@Smurgles]

We lived in the South for 15 years. I remember putting on the air conditioner in winter so we could have a fire in the fireplace and not get too hot. LOL!

[@cordelianoelle3644]

That was amazing. Why did it bring tears to my eyes?

[@michaelbaughman4017]

SWEET! Happy Christmas all ya all🎄 🎅🎁🎊🎉🎄🎁✝️🛐

[@ohionative5237]

Merry Christmas

[@sburris65]

Oh my word..im child free..but I have to have that book.

[@Salguod2k]

This was so darn cute. Great job Y'all

[@WilmerCook]

My mom was from Louisiana, biscuits and gravy!!!! Now at 76 i am gluten intolerant, but I can still have my GRITS!

[@izzylorin9966]

Maybe that's why I love sweet tea IT'S THE BEST

[@sonyafox3271]

Sounds so, much like my grandma’s house, there was so many cousins and, lots of food and countless pecan pies. Every year, we had pecan pie at grandma’s house and, I was one of those few people that always got a pecan pie to take home with me. So, once my grandma couldn’t do it, my mom knew she had to make me a whole pecan pie to take home. Pecan pie with a big tall glass of eggnog. I love sweet tea but, at Christmas, I prefer eggnog to wash down my pecan pie. That Southern Comfort is the best eggnog!

[@joshuawells835]

I caught the updated Princess Bride reference. Always great y'all

[@devlevine2782]

So sweet. Thanks for an early Xmas Treat Bless Your ❤

[@MCole-yh4fs]

I would so buy this book for my granddaughter!!!!

[@judiewoodward9756]

This was absolutely the best Christmas story.

[@Dulcess]

While I'm a northern with southern roots, my parents are from North Carolina and Mississippi so I grew up hearing y'all. Most people don't know where we're from, they always think we are visiting from somewhere else. 😂

[@ez2u1]

One of the most talented videos on your channel thank you

[@duffy7993]

Man I love you guys (y'all) but hopefully this will spread the joy to my Cali wife, sharin with the girls

[@wildfireintexas]

I live just outside Houston, I have the A/C set at 75. I am just hoping it stays cool enough to not come on. That would really bum me out.

[@cdenese108]

in Tallahassee, AC is running right now lol

[@wildfireintexas]

@@cdenese108 Ugh.

[@lululemon5532]

In South Ga. & mine is running as I type this comment! Happy Thanksgiving y’all!✝️☮️

[@wildfireintexas]

@@lululemon5532 Mine turned on late this afternoon/early evening. The humidity has picked back up.

[@mrslaharris7128]

Aww this bring back memories Mississippi

[@Rhiannon.]

AAAAAA ITS A SOUTHERN POSTED!!!! I screamed to my mom(we here get very cold in east Tennessee

[@multifandom_comfort_charac6894]

I just screamed in general.

[@Rhiannon.]

@@multifandom_comfort_charac6894 XD

[@frauki754]

Loved it!!! Thank you very much for the great reading:)

[@peterszar]

That was quite a nice story. It brought back memories when you referred to all the cousins on the floor. I'm a 70 y/o Yankee from Buffalo, NY, of Polish & German decent, so I guess were not too different from North and South. Oh replace the Pecan pie with a Pumpkin pie, ha ha.

[@areyousurehankdoneitthisway]

I live in the south and we do both pumpkin and pecan pie

[@DaferrFN]

I am all the way here in europe and I find this version of the book much nicer. Whoever did the rimes and the video: thank you for this, I loved it.

[@mysoutherngardeningjourney]

There's a book I read to my students when I was teaching in Dallas, "Texas Night Before Christmas." Santa wearing cowboy duds, driving a wagon pulled by tired horses...

[@andrewjackson5127]

This whole thing was AMAZING. The story is just as good as the original, funnier too, the illustrations are beautiful and it's one of your best videos. Merry Christmas y'all!

[@TheHeathernewcome]

Love this! Too cute and realistic

[@davidodonovan1699]

Santa has amazing anti-anti-aircraft abilities...guys keep thinking it's deer hunting season. (Joking. I love you all. Love, prayers and best wishes from Ireland.)

[@christopherbarber9351]

Great writing, and as always wonderful acting by Talia!