Simple Christmas traditions and the pressure to make it all magical with Katie Douglas and Kylie White
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
You are in for a treat! Courtney brings two of her very best friends on to get real about Christmas traditions. These three have been friends since their kids were babies and now they can look back over 18 years of parenting and share perspective.
In addition to some fun and simple ideas, they also share about the unnecessary pressure we put on ourselves during the Christmas season. They talk about everything from Santa, to the elf, and most importantly Jesus. They share some of the favorite traditions that their kids really remember.
My favorite part is at the end they each give parenting encouragement. Spoiler alert - it involves lots of grace. I am so incredibly grateful for these two moms and how they have walked so closely with me all of these years. They are wise, humble, hilarious and two of the best Jesus-loving mommas I know.
We didn’t even get to the miracle of Kylie White. She was healed from going blind. It’s a story I’ll never be over. You can listen to her miracle story here.
Merry Christmas!!!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to Pardon the Miss. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm your host, Courtney DeFaio, and on this podcast, we talk about raising kids as Christian parents. |
| 0:14.2 | It's so very important for me to honor God with my family and the two kids that he's given me. |
| 0:18.6 | But honestly, it's not always neat or easy or tidy, |
| 0:22.0 | but it's always worth it. So join us every week to laugh and learn together on this beautiful |
| 0:26.2 | and messy journey of parenting. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, y'all, I am quite giddy about this episode because it's two of my very best friends. |
| 0:49.8 | And I've been wanting to do this for a while, just kind of sprinkle in some of my friends throughout this podcast. |
| 0:55.5 | So you know that not everybody I run with writes books and not everybody I run with has a podcast. |
| 0:57.4 | And so that's the nature of podcasts. |
| 0:59.3 | So if you're wondering, like, how do you get guests? |
| 1:08.4 | Some of these authors and people that I love and admire and preachers and pastors and podcasters, like I said, they are sometimes on a book tour. |
| 1:10.1 | And so they're offering out interviews. |
| 1:11.9 | And I jump on them sometimes because it's like, when else are you going to get a conversation with someone like Max Locato or Lisa Turkers |
| 1:17.2 | if they're not on a book tour and they have a vested interest because they want you to know about |
| 1:21.8 | the work that they put out in the world and I have a vested interest because I really want to get |
| 1:26.5 | to know them and learn from them and glean from their wisdom. |
| 1:29.4 | But then every now and then, I think it's important for you guys to just hear from people that are just like me and you, that are in carpal, that are doing their own ministry things, but sometimes it doesn't look very big. |
| 1:39.2 | So I made a comment at the beginning of this interview that we were taking it down a notch, which was a joke, |
| 1:49.4 | but it's not true. Just because someone's platform or audience is huge doesn't mean there any less of value or they do less of an impact in the world. And so these are two of the most special, |
| 1:56.2 | amazing friends I've ever had in my life, Katie Douglas and Kylie White. We have known each other |
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