Going Big Vs. Keeping It Simple At Halloween: Voices 80 With Joanna Martin & Diane Boden
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Whether you love everything about Halloween or mildly dread some of the excess (sugar, stuff, events, oh my!), today’s episode is meant to give you permission to find the traditions and celebrations that work for your family. Regular contributor Joanna Martin is back on the show to interview Sarah about how the Powers family has done Halloween over the years. Later in the episode Sarah chats with Diane Boden, host of the Minimalist Moms podcast about how a scaled-back approach to harvest season works in her family. Happy October, friends!
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Learn more about our contributor Joanna Martin and follow her on instagram.
- Sarah’s family reads Pumpkin Soup (affiliate link) by Helen Cooper every year, and then makes this recipe for Butternut Squash Soup with Apple & Bacon.
- Joanna Martin uses this Roasted Pumpkin Seeds recipe every year during pumpkin carving.
- Check out Meagan’s essay about Trick-or-Treating Teenagers
- Sarah’s family loves the Disney Halloween Special Mickey’s House of Villains
- Sarah mentioned loving the big kid crafts stage, including How to Marble a Pumpkin with Nail Polish from Color Made Happy
- Diane Boden is the voice behind the top-rated podcast and community, Minimalist Moms, where talks about living a life in the pursuit of less. You can find Diane at her website, on Instagram, and on Facebook.
- Diane wrote the book Minimalist Moms: Living and Parenting with Simplicity (affiliate link), full of on-the-go minimalist wisdom that teaches busy parents how to embrace simple living, focusing on what matters, and inner calm.
- Check out a few blog posts from the Halloween Archives:
- A Lesson Learned From A Costumeless Halloween
- Five Festive Halloween Activities For Families With Little Kids
- Books Talk: Our Favorite Halloween Picture Books
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the Mom Hour. Hey everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour |
| 0:25.5 | Voices, a special series on the Mom Hour showcasing diverse voices from |
| 0:29.6 | across the motherhood community. I'm Sarah Powers and today I'm here with |
| 0:33.6 | Joanna Martin from our contributor team who is a mom of three from the Dallas |
| 0:37.8 | area. Hey Joanna. Hey, so I'm really excited for today's episode because |
| 0:43.1 | we're talking all about Halloween and I'm hoping we can kind of give mom's |
| 0:46.9 | permission today to either go all out for this holiday or scale way back and |
| 0:51.3 | keep it simple or something in between whatever works for moms listening |
| 0:55.5 | this year. So in just a minute, I'm actually gonna turn the bus driver role |
| 0:59.6 | as we call it here over to you, Joanna. And you're gonna interview me about |
| 1:03.9 | how big or simple we've done our Halloween's over the years in the Powers House. |
| 1:08.4 | And then a little later in the show, I'm chatting with Diane Bowden who hosts |
| 1:12.6 | the minimalist mom's podcast about how she brings her more minimalist simple |
| 1:17.7 | living point of view to this holiday, which, you know, Halloween is not on paper |
| 1:22.0 | a super minimalist time. So that's gonna be a great conversation. Joanna, |
| 1:26.6 | before I actually turn this thing over to you, will you remind everybody how old |
| 1:30.3 | your kids are? And I'm curious if they have started getting excited for Halloween |
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