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Hey ladies, welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast.

Today we're talking about a topic which is really going to benefit all of us to think through starting now in November, but really all the way through the holidays and a lot of what we talk about we can apply to our entire year.

So we're talking today about three ways that you can prepare for Thanksgiving.

We're going to be talking about like logistics, food, organizing it all, all of that stuff because it's really, really easy to start to feel like,

oh, the holidays are upon us. There's all these things we want to do, special memories,

things with family, things with friends, and it can also feel really overwhelming. So today we're

going to talk about how do you make special memories? How do you make holidays special and fun and actually approach it in a way that we can kind of get it organized and make it less stressful through the process.

Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

So it's really only been the last, I would say, four or five years that I have really gotten comfortable with cooking like a giant Thanksgiving dinner or extending hospitality to a larger

group of people or doing things a bit more formal. I have had many years of wanting to do that.

You know, it's easy and beginning of November to think of all the fun food and the things you

want to do. And I had a couple years of getting excited about doing it all, but then getting bogged down

in the details and not really knowing the logistics of how to carry this out on a larger scale

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