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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are embracing a low-stress holiday season with catered meals and simplified traditions

The couple tells PEOPLE they still enjoy Christmas Eve traditions like stuffing stockings and attending an earlier, music-filled church service

Their Live with Kelly and Mark Christmas sweater episode will feature festive sweaters, audience competitions and appearances by Santa and the Rockettes

Kelly Ripa is leaning into a new era of holiday ease.

After she and husband Mark Consuelos delighted fans last month by revealing they skipped cooking entirely for Thanksgiving, the couple is ready to bring that energy straight into Christmas.

"My goal is to cater as much as possible," Ripa tells PEOPLE in an exclusive backstage chat at Live with Kelly and M

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