You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast.

A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom.

I'm your host, Diana Renee.

And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back.

I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system, and I'm here to share all the tips,

tricks, and encouragement.

Let's listen to today's show.

Welcome to this episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast.

It is Tuesday, December 19th. And so we are

quickly approaching Christmas if you celebrate Christmas. And there are a couple of things I wanted

to talk about just as we get really close to the holidays. And the number one thing I want to talk

about is that your Christmas is probably

not going to go as planned, especially if you have kids. And that's okay. It's okay. I think that we

really put so much pressure on ourselves as moms to make sure that everything is magical and perfect

and nobody's stressed and nobody gets in arguments and there's no tension and nobody spills anything

and we just we set these unrealistic expectations um i think partially because we just want it to be wonderful. We want it to be magical.

We want to have an experience that you will always remember and you want your kids to have

these experiences that they will always remember. And so I think that we put so much undue pressure on ourselves that we end up just stressing ourselves out.

And so a few years ago, I remember specifically a Thanksgiving where it was when I was still feeling like I had to make everything go perfectly and things didn't go

perfect. We had an issue with the ham that we had ordered from honey baked ham and we ended up not

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