5 Ways to Make Christmas Memorable

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

While the Christmas season is meant to be fun, special, memorable, and joyful, it can also be stressful and exhausting for parents. Whether it's trying to find the perfect gift for your kids, fit in holiday traditions while balancing your work load, or feeling the loss of past loved ones--each parent feels the weight of the holidays in some way. But what if you could find a way to make it feel a little lighter? To redeem some of the magic? To soak in more of the joy?

In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about 5 ways to make this Christmas memorable, in a way that is special for your entire family.

Josh and Christi talk about:

* How to be fully present this Christmas, taking circumstances for what they are each day and being grateful for them.* The surprising power of changing how you think about expectations* How the 25 Days of the Christmas Story: An Advent Family Experience can help make this Christmas memorable for your family.

Show Notes:

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0:00.0	even when we don't like it like the waiting is so rich and and to be like to talk about being patient
0:07.6	with our kids and there's times that we've like done poor waiting like times when we've not been
0:13.2	patient and there's times when we've had expectant waiting where you know the joy is coming around
0:19.4	the corner you are listening to the famousous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:26.2	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:33.1	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. It is Christmas time. It's Christmas season. I can't
0:38.5	believe it's here already. You know, every, this is really weird. It's going to sound really weird way to
0:42.8	start the podcast. But like every Sunday night is garbage night in this drought poem. And like,
0:48.1	it's like, it feels like every night is Sunday night. It feels like every night's garbage night because
0:52.3	the weeks go so fast and it's like
0:54.4	I can't wait Christmas is here already. Okay, I was really like I'm not sure the tie-in but like I'm
1:00.6	going with you. Well it's just because it's like every week seems to be going faster and faster and
1:05.4	faster. Are you all feeling that? Like we were just out on the boat and now it's like Christmas.
1:10.7	I know. And it happened within a week. But we weren't we weren't out on the boat and now it's like Christmas. I know. And it happened
1:11.6	within a week. But we weren't out in the boat last week, but you know, it feels like it.
1:16.3	Yeah. It totally does. And it is weird. Josh just put up Christmas lights and we're not those like
1:24.0	grinches. You know, we wait a super long time, but we're also not the like November
1:29.1	1sters.
1:30.1	Right.
1:30.6	We're healthy in between and I balance.
1:35.0	Balance.
1:35.8	Yeah.
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