I'm Marjorie Punit. I'm Elizabeth Rees. This is The Nest, our minisode that's all about the

delightful and delicious things that make our homes just where we want to be. What do you want to talk about, Marjorie?

Well, you know, we are talking about the load that mothers carry while they're raising their children,

whether it's doing the bills or worrying about doctors' appointments or just organizing the life of a family.

And I thought it'd be interesting in The Nest to talk about the books that help us navigate motherhood and how we navigate the things that might bring us anxiety when we're raising our kids.

Because there were a couple of things for me, Elizabeth, that I had, I thought about perhaps too much.

And these are books that help me sort of get through that.

And so I just thought we could share some of the books that are helping us.

So for me, I obsessed about my children's education. Yeah, yeah. Perhaps to an extreme,

in the extreme. And I was always worried about sort of were they where they were supposed to be

or where they were they ahead of where they were supposed to be.

And so I was always reading books about that.

And so, of course, it started with what to expect when you're expecting.

I loved that series.

Yeah, that's a good one.

I loved that it guided me through my pregnancy.

And then there was the what to expect the first year.

I loved that I could do the little, you know, do you have that book?

Yes, of course. Although I definitely didn't get through all of it. I mean, mine was like glancing at it.

You were probably because you were more concerned about these things looking at it. Yeah, I was like

obsessing over baby food, homemade food and first foods, nonstop. God, together we would have been

perfect little anxiety clusters. Yeah, and we would have been perfect little anxiety clusters.

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