Well, we have entered into what I think really is still with all the chaos in the world,

the most wonderful time of the year. I'm going to spend some time today talking to you about

why celebrations matter and giving you something to hang on to for the holiday season.

Stick around, you found the Off the in today wherever you are. This is the weekend that we get ready to head into the

holiday season and I am getting ready for Thanksgiving with our family. We

started several years ago taking our kids and their spouses and

friends if we could you know anybody who was up for a good time up to Mount

Hood to hunt for a Christmas tree and it has turned out to be one of my favorite things

that we do as a family we've tried to rent a little Airbnb and in fact we're doing

it again this year so I'm really excited about that, and we take games up, and everybody

in the family helps to plan a meal, so it doesn't all sit on me.

But I want to talk about why I think it's so important that we establish traditions with our families and that we

and that we really make the effort to connect as families. The world is such a busy place right now. It is, we are distracted a

hundred different ways from Sunday. I mean I am, I'm distracted. It's hard for me to

put my head in the game with my children to really be able to get away from the

crush of the busy schedules that most of us are keeping and it has been life

giving for our family to have traditions that we look forward to and this year really is no different.

As my kids have gotten older and we have married kids now and grandchildren obviously and more family,

more opportunity to be to feel sort of

spread out and disconnected I think that the opportunity is even more

important than it's ever been so I wrote down a couple of thoughts this morning

that I thought would encourage you about why celebrations matter and why I think it's so

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