This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 171.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and

encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home.

And now your host from youngwifesguide.com, Jamie Belmay.

Hey, ladies, welcome back to the podcast. We have got a really awesome topic

today. We're going to be talking about setting and creating special holiday traditions and

memories because here in the U.S., we are just a couple weeks away from Thanksgiving. And then we've got Christmas right on the heels of that.

And I know some of you are thinking, wait a minute, Jamie, no, we can't start talking about Christmas yet.

But I want to encourage you, if you're not ready to deal with Christmas yet, that's okay.

But listen through this because there are some things that we can start thinking about now to better prepare

for this upcoming holiday season. And so maybe there'll be some good stuff to start getting

your brain thinking about all this stuff. And we do, like I said, those of us in the U.S., Thanksgiving

is right around the corner. So we got to get prepared for that as well. And I don't know about you guys,

but what has happened in previous

years is there's so many good things on my calendar in the next two months. There's parties,

cookie exchanges, all of the fun stuff that comes with this season. Lots of family get together.

There's all kinds of fun, good stuff for the most part but there's so much

on the schedule that all of a sudden is january first and i'm like whoa wait a minute when did it

become january first where did christmas and thanksgiving go what in the world and so i don't want that

to happen i want to be really intentional and i think last year we actually did a better job of slowing down,

focusing on these things. And so as we head into another busy two months, I want to make sure that

we're focusing on that, that we're slowing down enough to be able to focus on the traditions and the

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