Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Balmay, and this is the podcast

where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Belmay, and it's the middle of

December. It's the middle of December. We've got the countdown going on in our household to

Christmas Day. People are excited. And this last weekend, I really started to feel that

December crunch, right? That December crunch of, I got to wrap up, finish my Christmas presents.

I got to wrap those Christmas presents. We are hosting two different events at our house this next week.

I'm not quite sure how they both ended up on the same week. And at the time, I was like, sure,

the house is already going to be clean. We'll be good. Now I'm like, okay, we're hosting twice in this next week.

Two very large things both times, but it'll be good. And we're just, you know, I'm feeling that

crunch of making sure we want to kind of fit in the different activities that we want to do the

rest of this month because Christmas is coming soon. And the thing is

Christmas can feel very stressful. It can feel very overwhelming. A lot of people actually end up

hating the month of December because it feels so full and so overwhelming. So in today's episode,

we are talking about an extremely popular topic, which is how to have more joy and less stress

the rest of this month and as we head into January, because the thing is, it doesn't really

slow down.

So we're going to have lots of fun memories, lots of things happening this next two weeks.

But then we've got that awkward week between Christmas and New Year.

We've got New Year.

Then we are just steaming right into the new year with lots of things going But then we've got that awkward week between Christmas and New Year. We've got New Year.

Then we are just steaming right into the new year with lots of things going on.

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