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.

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 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 getting the ham and so we had to figure out last minute

what to do for like the main dish of our Christmas meal. I could not tell you if you like could hand me two million dollars. I could

not tell you what it was about. But my husband and I got into an argument like the day of Thanksgiving.

My youngest fell down and hurt herself. And then my oldest started saying that her stomach hurt and she wasn't feeling good.

And I, you guys, I just remember sitting down to the table at Thanksgiving and being like,

this sucks. Like, this is not what I expected of today. And I'm really frustrated and I'm in a grumpy mood and nothing went as planned.

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