You're listening to the beautiful mess podcast today, we're sharing the tale of two holiday

houses and how we ended up fulfilling our lifelong dream of being neighbors, kind of.

I'm also sharing all the details of what it was like to house shop, purchase a home and

even start decorating before I even saw the home in person, and we'll be answering a listener

question about how to get into the festive, autumn mood.

Yeah.

I'm so excited for this episode, so we just recently purchased this home in Missouri and

it's one block from Emma's house and we painted it pink.

That's why we're calling it pink house because really like Emma just didn't want me to

call it holiday house 2.0 and that was like a hard no from her.

So we're calling it the pink house.

Yes, plus it is a pink house.

That was like the first thing she did.

And it's pink.

Yeah.

And we should say, so you kind of mentioned in the intro that it's been like a lifelong

dream for us to be neighbors and I don't know, people might be like, weird, why?

So our grandma, Norma Jean, her and her sister before her sister passed away, Aina, our

granite Aina, they were neighbors, they were sisters and their houses are like across

the fence from each other in Buffalo, Missouri and we've just always thought that

that was really sweet and although maybe our personal homes, maybe that'll never happen

although life is long.

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