Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie Maywellson and I'm so happy that you're here.

Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions we have about

our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships and self-confidence.

A better calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the full.

Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate it together as

girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. So friends, officially, welcome to season 17

of the Girls Night Podcast. I am super excited to be back. We have some really amazing gas lined up

and I cannot wait to introduce you to them. Today's gas really doesn't need an introduction

because you all already know him. Today my sweet and amazing husband Carl Wilson is joining me back

on the show. I'm really excited about today's conversation. Today we're talking about how to

plan holiday celebrations with your spouse and talk through your expectations. Valentine's

stays this week and so in honor of that we're going to tell you this story of our very first

Valentine's Day together. The spoiler alert was a bit of a disaster and we're going to tell you

how we learned very quickly that talking through your expectations is a must for a healthy and

happy marriage one but for happy celebrations throughout the year. Here are just a few of the other

things that we talk about in this episode. We'll talk about how to plan for special occasions like

Valentine's Day or birthdays and get on the same page about gifts and what you're going to do to

celebrate. We'll talk about how to split up time between families during holidays like Thanksgiving

or Christmas and also how to think about what traditions you might want to create together.

We'll also tell you this story behind our new course the Marriage Starter Kit and how it came to be

what it's about and I can't wait to tell you all about it. Friends if you have ever felt

disappointed after a holiday because things didn't go the way that you hoped they would,

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