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Welcome to Pardon the Miss.

I'm your host, Courtney DeFaio, and on this podcast, we talk about raising kids as Christian parents.

It's so very important for me to honor God with my family and the two kids that he's given me.

But honestly, it's not always neat or easy or tidy,

but it's always worth it. So join us every week to laugh and learn together on this beautiful

and messy journey of parenting.

Hello, welcome to Pardon the Mess. My name is Courtney Defeo, and I am your host. Let me ask you a question. Why does my home feel so much better with Christmas decorations up? Like, what is it? Is it the lights? Does the greenery just do something? Like,

I never want to take it down and I get earlier and earlier putting it up every year because it just feels better. Do you all agree? Tell me if you're like hardcore after Thanksgiving people,

but we are early people and the tree is up and I'm so happy. Turns out, by the way, I threw away every tree. We have a big one in the den. We have a tiny one that sits on top of a table that we call the travel tree and we love to travel as a family. So we always get an ornament wherever we go. And that one is in our little front room. And then girls have trees and so we have one two three four

wait four trees apparently last year I was over them or they were broken or the lights were out

and I just threw away all of them so imagine my surprise when I'm like everybody go in the attic

grab a tree and there were zero trees I like Ron's like huh this will be fun and so okay need to get a second job to pay for all my Christmas trees but Ron's like, huh, this will be fun. And so, okay, need to get a second job to pay for all my

Christmas trees, but that was interesting. Okay, well, before we get into our guest today, I want to

tell you about a Christmas gift slash advent guide that we have over at Christian Parenting

slash Christmas. This one is free. And so I don't know about you, but it gets down to the

wire and I start freaking out that I don't have something meaningful and special for my family,

whether it's a grandparent, a parent, siblings, nieces, and nephews. And so we've got you

covered. Go on over to Christianparenting.org, and you can get slash Christmas, get a free gift guide,

and it's really got all ages and stages and interest, and it's packed with a lot of our faith-based

products and experiences all in one place, and so you can pick from all the amazing resources we have over here.

And then also, it's got ideas about Advent and resources there.

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