Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to remember to enjoy yourself.

Especially during the holiday season,

it can be easy to focus on all the things that need to get done.

But the point of the season, at least in a secular sense,

is enjoying time with friends and family and making happy memories.

Sometimes it takes a conscious push to remember this.

But that can be a push worth making.

So I imagine that a lot of people listening to this podcast

are the chief magic makers in their families.

You ensure that all family members get equal piles of presents,

and that they are equally thrilled by what you have procured. You make sure that everyone

gets to that holiday concert, or sees the holiday movies, or has tickets to the Nutcracker,

or whatever it is you plan to do.

Perhaps you make sure that extended family members are visited as well.

All of this is work.

It can be challenging work.

My husband and I sat down with our calendars to make sure someone would be at all the various Christmas

concerts and shows. I will come up with a lot of presents and make sure they are all

beautifully wrapped. Somewhere in the middle of getting stuck in a long line at Target, while I am

trying to make sure that everyone has the same number of presents, I am no

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