Hi everybody welcome back to the be therein5 Podcast I'm Kate Kennedy your host.

This week I crowd-sourced holiday traditions for some easy listening that were either passed

down through your immediate family of origin or that you've

instilled in your family today, whether with yourself, with a partner, with your kids, and I think it's a fun idea to hear what other people do in case

you want to establish some of your own traditions and if you are lacking

them it's one of those things where, well, you can start them any time and just do them every year.

And I think a lot of these answers are a reminder to like lean into the funny moments and mishaps and find traditions in the least likely of places and I don't know I just every year when I podcast on or around the holidays

I think about how the holidays can be quite difficult for people and life only

gets you know more challenging as we get older and

you know as we've discussed when you realize all that Christmas magic you

experienced as the product of somebody working very hard behind the scenes who

gets no credit.

And when you're the person doing that, I don't know, I feel like there are ways the holidays can kind of become a lot of work or a bummer or too stressful

and you're not even getting to

enjoy it for what it is and I just think these small shared moments of

connection or where you can anticipate you know the kids will be excited about

something or I don't know I just I love hearing examples of these small things people

look forward to every year and it also reminds me especially as like I have a kid now

and hope to have a bigger family like the things that all of you guys remember just doesn't really have to do with this stuff.

I mean, sometimes it is the stuff and maybe we'll get into some of that too or we'll save it for next week.

Who knows?

Maybe we'll do a month-long holiday extra

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