Christian Parenting

This is Cynthia Yannoff and you're listening to Pardon the Mess.

Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching us along the way.

It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. Life is messy. Don't walk the parenting road alone.

Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. I'm glad you're with us today. It is the week before

Christmas. And I'm just wondering, have you gotten everything

done? Are you ready? I'm running around frantically because I'm always last minute. And this year,

even with a different kind of Christmas, with lots less in the terms of activities, I still feel behind.

But here's the other thing. I'm wondering. And I'm talking to you as if I can hear a response,

but you can go ahead and answer out loud in your car, wherever you are. Let's just pretend this is

between the two of us conversation. Do you end up finding out all the gifts like that your

family or your husband is buying for you? Because there's just, I've decided no way to really

surprise me. And I think maybe it's that way for most moms.

And let me give you an example. Like I can always tell because my husband, who is a great gift

giver, by the way, but he like will start asking instead of like taking notes throughout the

year of things that I might mention or whatever, he'll start asking right the week before or two

weeks before. I can tell he's getting frantic. And he starts asking me questions or he'll, you know, just randomly be like, remind me what

size shoe you wear. I was just thinking about that the other day. I'm like, oh, okay, I see

where we're going. And then this is what happened yesterday so that I can fully underscore this

point. My husband thought he lost his wallet, so he's panicking.

And so I said, well, just look on our bank account and see if, you know, anything,

any charges have been on our debit card or whatever.

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