Hi, welcome back to After Reality. It's your host, Courtney Robertson here. How's everybody doing?

And welcome to the first episode of 2026, better late than never. Bye, bye, bye, by 2025. It was nice

knowing you. We are officially out of that post-holiday blur, that weird time between Christmas and New

years where the days don't count. Oh, the kids were out of school for two weeks and the snacks

became a food group. The days felt very long. We made the most of it. And now we're back in a

normal routine. It's good for mom and dad and for the kids,

but I'm not going to lie. Last week I was exhausted. Yes, I needed a full day of silence and I took

it. I took a personal day. I was just spent. So I did what any overwhelmed mom does when she's

trying to feel human again.

And I was trying to relax and get caught up on shows and podcasts.

But I ended up getting organized.

Highly recommended to a friend.

I cleaned out my closet, long, long overdue.

It's impossible to do when all three kids are home.

And I donated two large bags of clothes I

clean out my underwear drawer I'm starting the year off fresh I just want to be a little bit more

minimal this year I said goodbye to things that I should have thrown out years ago you know I'm one

of those people it's like oh but I wore that on the bachelor I'm like it's got to go. I just kept the creme de creme and the stuff that I actually wear. I bought an old school planner off of Amazon, 10 bucks. For me, it's just better when it's on paper. It's real. I write it down and then I check it every day. I keep it in my purse. I write little

post-it notes. I know they have those fancy ones. I actually put it on my Instagram. So it's like,

you should get one of those calendars on your, you know, you put on your kitchen. I forget what

they're called. But this works really good for me. I'm old school. Got to write things down.

I actually also stayed off my phone

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