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Jennifer Garnerand her family are getting ready to celebrate Christmas.

First, she divulged how preparation of Thanksgiving is a full team effort.

“I have one kid who specializes in mashed potatoes, that’s their specialty,she toldPeople.

Jennifer Garner

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Thanksgiving is just the warm up act for her kids, though, as she explained.

“And it was just like, ‘That’s what I’m looking for.

That is the energy that I want to see brought to our house right now.'”

The13 Going On 30star has plenty of Christmas traditions she wants to pass down to her family, too.