Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.

And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

We share practical ways to declutter your home schedule and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.

Good morning, Christine.

Hello, Asha. How are you?

Oh, my goodness. That's the question of the hour. Is it not? No, actually, I'm doing wonderfully. I am, believe it or not, currently sitting in the house that I grew up in. I'm at my parents' house recording this. So this feels special and sort of different all at the same time.

Well, why don't you tell people, I mean, people have an idea

from the title and the description, but tell us a little bit about the inspiration for today's

episode. Okay. Well, you know, folks, I just got back from dropping my daughter off of college,

my youngest, which means my husband and I are now empty nesters. And,

you know, this is such a big deal. I just thought it would be a nice, productive thing to give you a

little peek into this transition in life, just for a couple of reasons. First of all, I just want to say,

we've gotten so many really lovely notes and comments about what I've shared so far about sending

my daughter off to college. You know, I have two kids, one who is going to be a college senior this

year. So my daughter is starting as a freshman.

And folks have really responded to the things that I've talked about, about this transition to,

you know, basically parenting adults. And I thought, you know, I haven't said so much about it. And I thought the fact that we've reached this milestone, this just felt like a good time to really sort of report back.

And I think it's just, I think the second and most important reason is this is just such a big,

it's such a big thing to arrive at this juncture of parenting.

And I know for me, it has always helped to hear what's going on with other parents

who are a few years ahead of me and you know with this transition granted this is only one person's

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