Hey guys welcome back to preview alliance podcast it's Sarah and Whitney we're in holiday series so this is one that I think it's important and we're calling it

jingle jingle all the tears.

All the adheres.

Why the holidays can bring out lots of emotion, stress,

and how we're going to get you guys through it.

That's right, and we're all in this together.

So let's start off why holidays make us emotional.

Well, I think as kids, depending on what our upbringing was,

we realize now as moms maybe things that we want to do

differently for our kids either because we didn't get that yeah as a child

whether that means a certain type of toy that was like the big fad or

whether that means being a present parent making cookies these maybe staple

memories that you wish you had with your parents you want for your kids

and it makes you sad because it's a layer of grief in there of oh I really did

miss out on that.

Or I could be even you had great experience and you're like,

I want my kid to have that.

So then you put that pressure and expectation on yourself,

like I want to be as good as my mom,

or what my grandma did. Or you said in the opposite way I

don't want to my kids ever feel how I felt yeah and one thing that I was

reading about when we was kind of doing this prep is that so in the same way things triggered like me with my

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