Welcome to the Girl Next Door Podcast.

I'm Erica.

And I'm Kelsey.

In every episode, we bring our different perspectives to honest, funny conversations that feel like chatting with good friends.

We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about yet.

Today's episode is the first in a two-part series about family culture. and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about yet.

Today's episode is the first in a two-part series about family culture.

We feel like this topic encompasses a lot, so we're breaking it up into a couple of episodes.

This first one is all about quality time as a family, and then next week we'll have another one for you about dealing with hard stuff as a family.

But before we get into the show, we have a bit of housekeeping for you. You might have noticed

some sprucing up around here. And friends of the show over on Patreon just got a detailed

bonus episode all about the state of the podcast. But we wanted to share a few important and

exciting things here

with everyone, too. So number one, we are leveling up to three episodes a month. So we have some,

yes, we're very excited about this. We have some more time and bandwidth as our kids get older

and chunks of time open up. So three episodes a month here on the regular podcast feed. And then if you've

been thinking of joining Patreon, we're adding lots over there too. So in addition to the bonus content

and discussion with every episode, you are going to get two live hangouts a year, three bonus episodes

just for Patreon, and two in-depth book club

episodes a year. We're bringing back the book club episodes, but they will be housed over on

Patreon. So we really want to continue to grow that Patreon community. And also just thank you

for your continued support and give you more. So for just $5 a month, you get access to all of that bonus content.

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