#85: Making the Most of the Christmas Season with Your Family

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Christmas often comes and goes in the blink of an eye. Not only that, it's easy to miss the magic of the season. Either things don't go the way we had hoped with our family, or we get so buried in our to-do lists we need a search and rescue team just to help us come to the surface.

In this episode, we talk about decisions you can make to enjoy the Christmas season with your family. We talk about:

* Practical ways we can manage our expectations of the Christmas season
* Why it's important to also acknowledge and grieve loss during this season
* Being people who include others
* How to prioritize Jesus during the holidays--i.e. getting our kids to behave because of Jesus, not for Santa :)
* How to make decisions at Christmas based on your family values, not the culture around you
* One very practical way husbands can crush it this Christmas
* How to be the grace others need at this time of year

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0:00.0	We all have family picture frames.
0:11.8	Who are the people in yours?
0:13.4	I'm Josh.
0:14.4	And I'm Christy.
0:15.8	In This Together is a podcast where we discuss topics related to today's family.
0:23.4	We also go behind the scenes to share stories from our own crooked picture frame. And we interview guests to discover how their
0:28.5	stories can give us insight on becoming families who live, love, and lead well. Because you're
0:34.3	not alone. We're In This Together.
0:40.4	This episode of the In This Together podcast is brought to you by Lifeway Women.
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0:53.5	Welcome back to the End This Together podcast. It is the Christmas
0:57.8	season and our heart is that you experience and enjoy the Christmas season with your family
1:05.7	this year. And so that's what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk today about ways to do that, how we're doing that, what that looks like for our family.
1:15.3	And also, hopefully, it will encourage you to even just make one decision this year that might be different than years past, where you just look at your lives and go, oh, man, like, you know, how can we enjoy Christmas even more this year
1:29.0	as a family? And it might just be one small decision that you need to make. So let's talk about
1:34.9	some of those things. I think, I mean, for so many of us, this is either the most wonderful time
1:40.7	of year or it can be the hardest. And i think recognizing that there's just a lot of
1:47.8	emotion that goes on at this time of year um and giving space for that and grace for that i think
1:53.8	we so often fill it with so many obligatory things that we often feel it's more of a pressure than a blessing, that all of a sudden
2:05.9	the birth of Christ has become this undue series of expectations as opposed to just a genuine,
2:12.6	like just a genuine celebration of, I mean, I was talking with the kids the other day and I was like,
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