#263: Problem Solved - Thanksgiving 2020
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:
- How our families are handling Thanksgiving during COVID
- Emily’s mother-in-law thinks everything she does is “just perfect”
- Costco is taking a stand on monkey labor
- Does anyone even like turkey?
- Katie’s in-law turkey noodle tradition
- Rebecky has been challenged to make a turkey this year
- Permission has been granted to veer from traditional food + decorate for Christmas
- Our favorite desserts: apple pie, sweet potato pie and sweet potato casserole
- Solving the problem: cousin awkwardness at the holidays with a phone jail
- Blessing your mother-in-law with a perspective shift
- Random problem solved for a listener on kids watching scary movies
- Katie’s entrance into the Better Life cult
- Rebecky’s open curtain policy
- Emily moving towards being a home-school mom again
- The curse of the West Elm couch
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes I'm |
| 0:02.0 | Okay, perfection is nonsense. |
| 0:06.0 | It's just the way it is. |
| 0:08.0 | Life gets rough around the edges. |
| 0:11.0 | Peace is just a perspective shift away in Rebecca, Emily and Kate. |
| 0:17.0 | For all here to help, this is mom's struggling well. |
| 0:25.0 | Because we're all in this together. |
| 0:30.0 | You're just mom struggling. |
| 0:33.0 | All right, welcome back, friends. |
| 0:36.0 | You are listening to the mom struggling well podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | The podcast that helps you love your actual life so that you don't need to run away from home. |
| 0:42.0 | We believe here that perfection is |
| 0:43.5 | nonsense and peace is a perspective shift away. If you love us a lot and you really |
| 0:49.4 | want to show that, the best way to show it is to join us over on Patreon. If you go to |
| 0:54.9 | Patreon.com slash mom struggling well you can join us for as little as three |
| 1:00.0 | cents a day. You definitely have three cents. You can afford it. Every other week on the |
| 1:06.0 | patron episodes we are selecting one person, one patron to gift a 50 dollar |
| 1:11.6 | Better Life bag gift card too. |
| 1:14.0 | So don't miss out and go join. |
| 1:16.2 | All right, so Patreon also added a new feature. |
| 1:19.0 | So you can sign up for an annual membership, |
| 1:22.1 | so you can pay it all all up front at once and what they do is we can offer a |
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