Today on Welcome Home, we’re chatting with Mary Laura Philpot, bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink , the hilarious memoir about motherhood, incremental life change, and finding the antidote to the monotony of the daily grind.
Plus, why separate bathrooms are the key to a healthy marriage, how to just say no to endless conversations about chicken salad, and why any volunteer positions that involve an entire year of apprenticeship training should probably be vetoed!
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How to Reinvent Yourself (Without Blowing up your Whole Life!) Episode 165

This is the Home-Ec class you wish you'd taken in school. Co-hosts Graham Smith and Kirsten Dunlap are two moms on a mission to help others create elegant, livable, welcoming homes. Join them as they interview experts, tackle specific challenges, and share their homemaking fails and successes. Real families, real budgets, real homes. Welcome Home!

Kids & Family

The biggest home EC lesson everyone needs in their back pocket is how to be the perfect hostess. In this episode, Kirsten and Graham talk all things summer hosting. How do you get rid of those pesky summer bugs at an outdoor gathering? How do you keep things cool when it's so hot? How to you create the perfect, summer evening? Let's find out!
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Summer Hosting

It's time for tomato sandwiches and watermelon with lime! It's too hot for Graham to turn on her stove, so Kirsten and Graham talk classic summer dinners. The duo shares their favorite recipes for this time of year when you want all things easy and delicious.
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Summer Meals

Life is all about change. Before your 40s, you have a world of resources to help you figure out the changes in your body from the time you hit puberty until you give birth, but what's next? In this episode Kirsten and Graham talk to Laura Heikkila, a holistic health practitioner, hormone specialist, fitness and nutrition coach and creator of the Ageless Women Society. From sugar cravings to lifting weights, Laura talks through how to live a healthy lifestyle after 40.
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Diet and nutrition over 40

K & G talk to their dads who are unsurprisingly similar in this episode of Welcome Home. From the dangers of internet data collection to the best advice they ever gave, Kirsten and Graham's dads share their lives with us in this truly heart warming episode for Father's Day.
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Father's Day with our dads!

Do you have all the life skills you need? Can you change a flat tire? In this episode of Welcome Home, Kirsten and Graham talk life skills that every young person needs to know, but there are a few that even the best moms might not know how to do. This might be the episode that pushes you to learn how to change that flat!
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How to Reinvent Yourself (Without Blowing up your Whole Life!) Episode 165

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