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Edit Your Life Ep. 16: Less Is More Thanksgiving [Podcast]
If you haven’t yet had a chance to wrap your head around Thanksgiving planning, let us help! In this episode, Christine and I share 8 tips for how to de-stress your Thanksgiving; how to simplify the...
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Edit Your Life Ep. 18: Crap-Free Holidays [Podcast]
The holidays can be wonderful but — let’s be honest — there’s also plenty of crap (be it emotional or physical). Gift-giving can be fueled by obligation, and the “more is better” trap looms large...
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New Year’s Resolutions for People Who Like Themselves
Happy new year, friends! Anything I write today will make very little sense in my jet-lagged state, so I thought I’d share this post I wrote a couple years ago about my new-and-improved approach to...
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Edit Your Life Ep. 20: Reframing New Year’s Resolutions [Podcast]
There’s something so wonderful about an entirely fresh new year ahead, new starts, blank slates, and all that. But there’s also an expectation about New Year’s resolutions and goal-setting. It can be...
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Valentine’s Day hack request (with a prize!)
Valentine’s Day preparation is officially underway. You’ve been sending me great Valentine’s Day parent hacks for years, but it’s time for a refresher! To sweeten the deal, one Valentine hacker will...
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Edit Your Life Ep. 54: De-Stress Your Halloween [Rebroadcast]
Halloween is supposed to be fun, but the details can result in stress and grumpiness for parents. In Episode 54, Christine and I talk about what our kids are planning on for Halloween this year...
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This may be my last Halloween trick-or-treating with my kid
I’m a member of the Invisalign Mom Advisory Board. As part of the program, I’m documenting my daughter’s and my experience with Invisalign clear aligners (read the full series here). I was planning to...
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Edit Your Life Ep. 59: Relaxed Entertaining
Too often we let household to-do’s and entertaining “shoulds” get in the way of simply being with people in our homes. Inspired by online articles about “scruffy” and “crappy” entertaining, in Episode...
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More houseguests than beds? Use nearby hotels as “remote guest rooms.”
This post is sponsored by Embassy Suites. We hosted my extended family for Thanksgiving for the first time this year. Nine relatives, from middle schoolers to grandparents, traveled to Portland so we...
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Edit Your Life Podcast, Ep. 63: Crap-Free Holidays [Rebroadcast]
As much as we love the holidays, let’s be honest — they often come with a lot of crap (both emotional and physical). It’s ironic that gift-giving can turn stressful; we feel obligated to buy stuff for...
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Edit Your Life Ep. 82: Mother’s Day Reflections
Mother’s Day is coming up — we Google’d it to confirm! In Episode 82, Christine and I talk about how motherhood differed when each of our kids was born, and share our favorite and least favorite things...
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Edit Your Life Ep. 105: Editing Your Holiday Gift List
High fives to our episode sponsor ChopChop Magazine! ChopChop is an award-winning cooking magazine designed to inspire and teach children and families to cook and eat real food together. For a limited...
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Podcast: Guilt-Free Family Get Togethers [Rebroadcast]
High fives to our episode sponsor PRANA, a family-owned Canadian purveyor of yummy 100% organic, vegan, kosher, gluten-free, and non-GMO snacks. PRANA just launched in Boston at Stop & Shop, Star...
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Edit Your Life Ep. 107: Simple Holiday Rituals
High fives to our episode sponsor Epic!, a super cool, giant (25,000 titles!) digital library for kids 12 and under. Hop on over to getepic.com and get two free months of unlimited reading on Epic! by...
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6 ways your kids can pitch in this Thanksgiving
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash Thanksgiving is famous for the meal. But when I was a kid, Thanksgiving was infamous for the long wait before the meal. It seemed like the grownups fussed over...
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Edit Your Life Ep. 143: Editing Your Holiday Gift List [Rebroadcast]
This week’s episode is sponsored by Simple Contacts, a convenient way to renew your contact lens prescription and reorder your brand of contacts from anywhere, in minutes. For an exclusive deal from...
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Edit Your Life Ep. 144: Favorite Ways to Give
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