Elizabeth Craft (Elizabeth Kraft)

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Happier with Gretchen Rubin · More Happier: Hacks to Avoid a Holiday Meltdown This Week [Revisited] · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

Right.

I give my gold star to my mother-in-law and my father-in-law, Ramona and Bill, because they, every Christmas, make handmade tamales.

And I may have mentioned on the show before that a Mexican tradition is to eat tamales on Christmas.

And Adam's family is Mexican-American tamales.

And this is something that I've come to very much appreciate about their culture because I absolutely love tamales.

And the thing is, it's a real pain to make them.

It's like a multi-day process.

And they could just go buy a bunch of frozen tamales and, you know, heat them up.

But they still go through every year the process.

And you make dozens and dozens.

I mean, it's not like, oh, you're making one pan of tamales.

Because they also have a party every Christmas Eve.

So you're making tamales for an army, basically.

Right.

And so I give them a gold star because it really is one of those things like mom's Christmas decorations that when you go to their house and they have the tamales, it really makes it feel like Christmas and feel warm and cozy and delicious and fun.

So a big gold star for taking the time and the effort during a busy time to actually make these by hand.

It is.

Thank you to our producer, Kristen Meinzer.

Also, thanks to Andy Bowers and Maura Mayer of Panoply.

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