🎄HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE: How To Host Without Losing Your Mind! SIMPLE, BUDGET-FRIENDLY TIPS + TRICKS
🎄MOM’S NEW WEBSITE! (ahhhhh!!!!) http://www.homegrownonpurpose.com (sign up for her email list!)
🎄MOM’S INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/wendybird86
🎄MY WEBSITE: http://www.nataliebennett.com
🎄MY INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/nataliebennettvlogs
In this video I sit down with my lovely mama and we chat everything hosting and holiday party-throwing! We come from decades of experience with hosting family and friends for both large and small parties and have a bit of wedding/event coordination and catering under our belts as well! We want to share what has worked for us with prepping and serving food, how to schedule your day, what we do about a “kids’ table,” how to let go of stress and pressure, how to entertain in a small space and more!
On this channel, you’ll notice I take a bit of a different approach to prepping and planning for the holidays. I want to be a source of motivation and encouragement that you don’t have to be pinterest-worthy or keep up with Joneses in order to enjoy your holiday season and bless your guests! You don’t have to be the “hostess with the mostest!”
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SO FREAKING EXCITED FOR MY MAMA!!!! And to share the joy, I'm hosting a GIVEAWAY! To enter just 1. comment with #homegrownonpurpose and 2. sign up for my mom's email list! http://www.homegrownonpurpose.com We'll choose someone from her email list to send a gift card to! (be sure to add hello@homegrownonpurpose.com and hello@nataliebennett.com to your contacts so we can email you if you won!)
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I just love your mom! She has such a sweet and kind spirit.
I like to get my kids involved by having them greet guests at the door with enthusiasm ☺️
Oh goodness, you ladies are singing my song 😂 before my husband and I were married, I threw him an open house when he graduated from chiropractic college. My future mother-in-law found my table diagram in the kitchen and thought it was so weird she had to show her sister. I’m glad she still let her son marry me despite my nerdiness 🤓 And I’m glad I’m not alone! God has greatly blessed your family with a beautiful legacy, and it is an inspiration. 💛💛
Natalie, are you using an app for your notes? I’m usually a paper gal but I’m interested in how easy your digital notes looked!
You are such a beautiful positive vibe!!!
I will always remember “feeling blessed, not stressed “. It’s just the perspective, and life feels so much more joyous.
Hello, excited for your mom. #homegrownonpurpose
So excited for #homegrownonpurpose !
Love your mother and your channel!
I wanna be in your family!!! 😉. What lovely people you are.
Oh my gosh, this is so helpful! Thank you!!! ☺️
Amazing! Your mother is a beautiful woman!
I always get so excited when your mom joins one of your videos. She is kind, humble, and intelligent with a vast amount of wisdom! Thank you for sharing her knowledge and joy with us! ☺️
As a fellow homesteader and Christian mama, I'm so excited for your Mom's website. 💗 I love your content, Natalie, and I'm sure that I will love your Mom's as well. I'm not on Instagram, so I'm glad to have an outlet to follow her, too. -Sara
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But does it smell like paper? I love her!!!
Nice to see you both ❤️
"but does it smell like paper?" 🤣 I'm totally with your mom on that!!!
Great video. We host Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve every year. I totally agree with buffet style for larger groups. If it is a smaller group we will do family style. Love having people over. I appreciate the notebook idea.
So I commented already but totally agree with your family assisting. My daughter who is now 22 could make the prettiest veggie trays and charcuterie boards. My sons would pitch in by picking up and cleaning. The hubby fries the turkey and makes his Mom’s sweet potato biscuits.
I really appreciated you and your mom doing this video. I have hosted many times. But never have thought to keep a notebook. That is one thing that will definitely be going on my list to start doing this year. I'm excited to check out your mom's website once it fully launches.
I loved mom’s, “but it smell like paper!” In reference to your iPad “notebook.” This is so special Natalie & Momma. Thanks for sharing❤
SO so fun! Thank you both ❤
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You were both a pleasure to watch together. I always thought I was the only one who kept notes like this for holiday entertaining. Thank you for the Bible verse! God bless your new website.
I remember how stressed out my mom was hosting holidays. She needed everything perfect. The food was always phenomenal but she never seemed to enjoy it. Now the hosting goes to us kids (my parents are in their 80s) and the theme family makes the food taste better and everyone is required to help in some capacity. #homegrownonpurpose
I loved this video! First of all whenever your mom is on your channel I get so excited because she is so sweet and knowledgeable! It was so great to hear some tips that I hope to use one day when I have my own place and can host. And I'm so excited for your moms website!
This is all such great information !!! Thanks so so much ! I just started hosting Christmas so this was so helpful !
Me…thinking about my relationship goals w my mom.
This was a very helpful video on hosting as we are having everyone over for Thanksgiving. We're excited to have others in our home and bless them with food & fellowship! 🙂 It all comes from the heart.
Love when Momma Wendy is on!! You guys just light up around each other❤️ and so excited for her site!!
I loved every bit of this video. The peace and calm that you and your Mom exude is beyond words. Thank you for this, it is appreciated.
You (both) are such a bleessing. Thank you for sharing your wisdom once again.
You and your mom are beautiful, and have such a great relationship. Thank you for sharing all your wisdom! Congrats to your mom on her website🎉
Hi Natalie, Loved the chatting with you and your beautiful mother. Thank you both!!!!
Watching from Michigan…Kim
I have 0 interest in hosting but I love both of You. I'm gonna by applying Your notebook advice into other areas of my life.
I love it when you do collaborations with your mama, she is the second mom all of us need in our lives 🥰🤩
This is so exciting!! So happy for you momma and can’t wait to see it!! #homegrownonpurpose
love it … notebook … i have a gorgous Cath Kidson planner that is my brain for Nov n Dec … my filofax is for rest of year … planner geek
Natalie, I"M YOUR MOTHER but probably more than 25 years older! She is doing, and has done for years, the very same things as i have found vital to host a special meal with family and friends and guests.
You have a great role model and i know you have already followed in her footsteps. Blessings! Thankful for you both!
I've been dying to know, where did you get your dining table and chairs??!!
I usually watch on my laptop, but have comments blocked so I can never ask… Had to steal my husband's phone for a minute to get on here and finally ask you! 😂 (I got rid of my smartphone this summer, so I have to borrow his at times now 🙃)
This was so interesting and insightful. The holidays are different this year in our family, two have moved into smaller spaces, I will be hosting in my very small space and so excited. Like your mom, I have notes from years past…. They need updating this year. The adult grandchildren go to their significant friends. It will be the youngest, 14, my two daughters and I. Menu planning is my current project. I’ve decluttered a lot of serveware , so that is another thing to plan. Thank you so much for this chat. Good luck to your mom for her upcoming YouTube. She is just as beautiful as you, you could be twins!
Came here from Briana’s fall decor video
#homegrownonpurpose So excited for your mom to have a website. I have been following her on Instagram for awhile and love all the tips and recipes she shares!