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The Girl Next Door Podcast

Holiday Intentions & Dinosaur Feet

The Girl Next Door Podcast

Kelsey Wharton

Kids & Family, Working, Books, Family, Creative, Cooking, Work, Mom, Honest, Life, Society & Culture, Married, Personal Journals, Conversation

4.8714 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today we're sharing our holiday intentions as we look toward the end of this crazy year. We share how we're really doing lately and how that's impacting how we approach the holidays. Then we each share our one word intention for the holidays plus how we'll make time for ourselves and the holiday things we're most looking forward to.

 

Mentioned on the show:

Honest Advent

Nespresso Advent Calendar

Felt advent calendar

Heel Genius

The Christmas Album by Leslie Odom Jr.

Another JohnnySwim Christmas

Last year's holiday episode: Ten Things We're Not Doing This Christmas

 

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two former

0:08.8

next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to

0:13.6

come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey friend. Hey friend. Today we're talking about our holiday

0:19.4

intentions because even though this year has looked

0:22.2

completely different than we expected, the holidays are not canceled. I think there could be mixed

0:27.6

feelings heading into the holidays. After the year that 2020 has brought, some of us might be

0:32.6

feeling exhausted and wondering where we'll find the holiday spirit. Others are ready to lean in hard and let the

0:38.8

holiday spirits carry us through the end of the year. And maybe you're feeling all of the above.

0:44.4

All of the above. Hour to hour. So to start, how are you doing overall? And how is that impacting

0:53.4

how you'll be approaching the holidays this year?

0:56.1

Man, I was just sitting down to, like, you know, put together some thoughts for this episode.

1:00.6

And I'm like, this question feels hard to answer right now.

1:04.2

Like, kind of in the same way as when you become a new mom where you're like, this is really, really good and I'm eternally grateful for this.

1:13.3

And this is suckingly hard with no end in sight. And it's just like you don't even know how to

1:19.1

process that a little bit right now. Yes. So I do feel it depends on the day, but overall

1:25.4

still very positive. I'm just noticing the with obviously the

1:30.6

situation with covid right now um and at the the come down from the election the stress of the election

1:37.5

i'm just feeling a little more worn and afraid than i have um but still overall positive, if that makes sense. So like less

1:47.3

bandwidth, but also okay. I don't know. It's just like all of the things. So I do feel like it's a

1:54.9

hard question to answer. There is this sense of the normal holiday complications and just, you know, what family are we going to see?

2:03.7

Who aren't we going to see being extra hard right now?

2:07.8

Because I don't feel like there's, I don't know, everything is a judgment call right now.

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