Welcome back to listeners of the past three seasons and welcome to new friends on Substack—the new home of the About Home podcast (🎉🎉) and The Story So Far newsletter.

Now you can play each new episode, with guests, essays, sneak book previews and more each Wednesday, in your inbox or podcast app.

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“Housekeeping”—wise 🧹, I’d be SO grateful if you could help to spread the word by sharing this email, so we can build this wonderful community and share more stories.

We’re kicking off this new chapter, Season 4, with an essay I wrote earlier this year for a collaborative project (links below).

I’d love to know if it resonates with you in any way, as the holiday season approaches and the prospect of loved ones coming to and fro home.

I took the photo above last week in an “off-ramp” moment (this will make sense when you’ve listened to the episode).

It makes me smile because it proves the apple didn’t fall far from the white—sneakers—and—blue—jeans tree (her Reeboks to my Supergas. That’s a whole different story, which you can read about here.)

Links for this episode of About Home:

IOLA magazine, the NEW Joy issue

Sue Fulmore’s FREE resource on parenting older children

Come and say hi on Instagram!

Don’t miss this Friday’s The Story So Far Newsletter …

Phew!

Lots of love and see you back here on Friday!

Jen XX

Music for this episode of About Home courtesy of the fabulous Purple Planet.

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