All parents want to make memories with their kids, but we need a way to do it so we don't forget

because we're all so busy and we're also distracted.

And traditions are a way of just helping us remember what matters and helping us implement what matters. Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. You can find out more about

the podcast at Cultivating the Lovely.com in our Yellowbrick Road membership community at patreon.com

slash cultivating the lovely and in our

Facebook group. I would also love to connect with you on Instagram where you can find me at

McKenzie Kappa. That's M-A-K-E-N-Z-I-E-K-O-P-P-A. Ladies, today we have a guest on the show

who I think is very cultivating the lovely-esque.

She actually reminds me a lot of my good friends who helped inspire this podcast because

she's got a lot of loveliness going on.

And her book, I think, is something that will resonate with a lot of you.

It's Jessica Smart from the brand new book, Memory Making Mom.

She's got all sorts of ideas for great traditions that you can start or continue with your family

without going over the top with it, not getting it into an overwhelming place.

And I think she's got some really great wisdom to share on today's episode.

I also wanted to mention that a lot of you who follow me on social media have been so kind to be reaching out to me because you know that I got very sick last week and it put a little bit of a kink in a lot of things that I was working on.

So I just wanted to let you all know that I am almost all the way recovered.

Still have a little bit of rest to my voice.

But it's going away and it literally felt like a miracle because I was

able to get the jobs done that I really needed to get done. And I just really felt like all of

your guys's prayers made so much of a difference. It felt like a miracle when I was able to

wake up at the end of last week and have enough of a voice to do the work that I need to do.

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