This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 172.

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 youngwifestguide.com, Jamie Belmay.

Hey, ladies, it is Jamie Belmay, and I am back talking about one of my very

favorite subjects in the whole world because it's one of my very favorite times of the year,

which is Christmas and not just Christmas, but holiday planning. And I've got a special guest

on the show today. I've got Victoria Osborne. She's going to be sharing

some great wisdom on holiday planning. And ladies, this is what we need to hear, setting up our

expectations for the holiday season. So in the previous episode, I talked about family traditions,

how do we establish new things? How do we focus on Christ more this season?

And Victoria is kind of taking the second piece of that and how do we actually make the time,

make the space for those things. And I really love what she has to say about our expectations.

Because I think in some ways it can be good to set up our expectations for the year

to think ahead like it's the beginning of November and I'm thinking ahead to what to how I want

to the next two months to go. So there's some really good things about that. And then there's some

parts about that where then we have too high of expectations and people let our expect, you know,

let us down with

those expectations. So there's some bad side to that too. So I really love that Victoria starts off

with this whole first part of the planning process with that. So we're going to hear from her

and just know that this, this clip that we're playing from her is from the 2018 Homemaking Ministries

online conference. So if you attended our conference in September and you didn't get to

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