We're pulling back the shower curtain to talk all about our bathing habits. We come clean about how we deal with hair in the drain, how often we wash our kids, and who is showering with their spouse. Plus the correct order of shower operations and honest thoughts on loofahs.

Mentioned on the show:

Episode: Our Hair & Unleashing the Mane

Episode: Mom 2.0 & Dry Shampoo

Dry shampoos: Amika, Monat, Kristen Ess

Curly Girl Method

Senegence hair and skincare products

Moroccanoil hair products

Tub Shroom

Color bath tabs

silicone bath cup

Two Sisters bubble bombs

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Read anything good lately? We dish about our reading habits lately, what books we've finished, and what's in our queue. Plus we share how we're navigating our in-person book club through a pandemic and chat about the books our kids are enjoying.

Mentioned on the show:

Erica and Kelsey on Goodreads

What Kind of Woman

One Line a Day five-year journal

The Vanishing Half

The Midnight Library

Our book club episode on How To Stop Time

The Idea of You

Homegoing

Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Georgia

Just Mercy

Strength To Love

Why We Can't Wait

This Tender Land

Oona Out of Order

The Glass Hotel

The Book of Longings

Vanderbeeker series

Maddy McGuire, CEO series

Who Was books

Erica's personal Instagram

Magic Tree House series

The Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Kanga Room System

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It's a new year and we look ahead with our intentions and goals. Our conversation includes how we made time and mental space for new year planning, how we want to bring our intentions into our days, and messages of encouragement for our future selves.

Mentioned on the show:

10 Questions For the End of the Year (Laura Tremaine)

Naming What Matters in 2021 (The Lazy Genius)

@thebeyoutybureau

Parenting Without Power Struggles

Gravity weighted blankets

Schwinn IC4 stationary bike

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Hi friends! We recorded a 2020 wrap-up episode but had technical difficulties with it and are still trying to recover the episode. Hopefully we can bring it to you soon! But in the meantime Kelsey recorded a quick mini-episode for you. She shares how she's making time and space to close out 2020, a couple of rituals she's putting in place now to welcome a new year, plus a few great podcast episodes she thinks you would enjoy.

Mentioned on the show:

Friendlier: Our year in books, 2020

Sporkful: New Year's Food Resolutions

The Lazy Genius: My Favorite Discoveries of 2020

How I Built This: Bobbi Brown, Lush Cosmetics

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Gosh we miss seeing our friends! In this episode we talk about what friendship during a pandemic has looked like for us. Plus we talk about holiday traditions we have with friends and what those will look like this year.

Mentioned on the show:

Friendship Landscapes (our previous episode on friendship)

Holiday Home Makeover with Mr. Christmas

Tommy John lounge joggers

Nursing nightgown

Tommy John lounge henley

Smartwool light hiking crew socks

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Budgets might not sound very festive but having a realistic holiday budget can bring merriment. We chat about how we manage holiday budgets with our spouses. Plus we share ideas for affordable gifts and ways to give back to your community if you're in a position to do so. Happy holiday budgeting everyone!

Mentioned on the show:

Nikki McClure calendars

Dressing recipe

Jingle Jangle movie

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Today we're sharing our holiday intentions as we look toward the end of this crazy year. We share how we're really doing lately and how that's impacting how we approach the holidays. Then we each share our one word intention for the holidays plus how we'll make time for ourselves and the holiday things we're most looking forward to.

Mentioned on the show:

Honest Advent

Nespresso Advent Calendar

Felt advent calendar

Heel Genius

The Christmas Album by Leslie Odom Jr.

Another JohnnySwim Christmas

Last year's holiday episode: Ten Things We're Not Doing This Christmas

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Combining our loves of cooking and books, today we're chatting about cookbooks. We talk about why we prefer cookbooks to online recipes and each share our tried and true favorite cookbooks. Plus we discuss cookbook storage, the cookbooks we love to gift, and the ones on our wish lists.

Mentioned on the show:

Joy the Baker cookbook and blog

Magnolia Table cookbook

Half the Sugar, All the Love

Bread and Wine

Dinner: A Love Story

Half-size binder Kelsey uses for her recipe binder

Cookbook holder

Similar to Kelsey's corner wall shelf

Similar to Kelsey's utensil bookends

Cravings

Shutterbean food blog

Made It. Ate It. Loved It.

Thug Kitchen

Cooking Class kids' cookbook

Perfect Bars

New York City Christmas puzzle

Instant Pot wild rice soup

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Under-buyer or over-buyer? From socks past their expiration date to an abundance of paper products, today we explore our buying habits (can you guess who's who?) and how they translate to our lives.

Mentioned on the show:

Over- and Under-Buyer quiz

Pilot FriXion Clicker erasable pen

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We're sharing an update on how this very different school year is going for us. Erica is homeschooling her girls and Kelsey's boys are in an online program through a local charter school. We share the challenging, the pleasantly surprising, and our tips for making it work. Whatever school looks like for you this year we are cheering for you!

Mentioned on the show:

Life Updates & Text Your Spouse episode where we chat about how we came to our 2020 school decisions

The Brave Learner

KidsBooks.com

VTech kids digital camera

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