Hey friends, welcome to the Cultivate What Matters Podcast, where we help you do more

of the things that matter and less of the things that don't.

My name is Kelly and I'm so grateful you're here.

Over the next few weeks, we're digging into our cultivated life evaluation categories,

so that means we're talking through what it means to cultivate big picture goals, the

kind that will matter when you're 80, in these areas.

Community, family, health and wellness, home and spaces, spiritual and personal growth,

work and learning and finances.

In today's episode, you'll hear from Kate, the owner and creator of Naptime Kitchen.

Kate's down to earth approach to family life, motherhood, meal prep, and all the things

inspires us to give ourselves grace and pursue progress over perfection.

Hey Kate, thanks so much for joining us. How are you today?

I am great. It's our last full week before school starts and so we just kind of took

a morning and took our kids down tail to the children's museum and to lunch and just

kind of enjoyed some time with them, which we don't do that a ton, you know, like a specific

like big outing and it was really, really great to do that this morning.

That's awesome. I was wondering what is back to school look like for you?

Well, two of my kids will be in full-time, normal, classic American school and then two

are in like a preschool and so they'll, you know, like three hours long kind of preschool.

But there's doesn't start until like after Labor Day and so back to school for me looks

like a soft launch because we lose the older two, which are also kind of the easiest two

and then we still have the younger two that are way more like demanding and then comes

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