Making memories during the holidays w/ Jessica Smartt
The Real Life Podcast
Jefferson Bethke
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week Alyssa chats with Jessica Smartt about her genius ways to make fun memories as a family during the holidays!
PS Jessica's books are two of our family's absolute favorites! Get Let Them Be Kids here or Memory Making Mom here.
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| 0:17.8 | head to Policy Genius.com. Hey guys, welcome to the real life podcast where we talk about exactly that every |
| 0:29.9 | single week, real life, which means some episodes might be about a fight we just had, some |
| 0:35.5 | episodes might be about potty training since we have two toddlers, and some might be about |
| 0:39.5 | eschatological realism because I love thinking and talking about deep theological things and maybe we'll talk about all three of those in one episode |
| 0:46.6 | But we hope the show feels like hanging out in our living room with us drinking a cup of coffee as we discuss faith and family and culture and Jesus. |
| 0:55.6 | Me and my lovely wife, Alyssa, are your host and don't hesitate to hit us up or reach |
| 1:00.0 | out on social media to say hi or comment on this week's episode. Enjoy. Hey guys, welcome to the real life podcast. I'm your host, Alyssa Bethke, and I am so excited for today because I have the honor of interviewing my good friend, author Jessica Smart. |
| 1:24.0 | Jessica, thank you so much for being on today. |
| 1:27.1 | Oh, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:29.2 | I'm super excited. |
| 1:31.5 | I feel like we've like talked via Vox and text a lot but I just can't wait for the day that we can finally meet in person. |
| 1:39.0 | I know and especially if that day is in Hawaii. |
| 1:42.0 | Oh. and especially if that day is in Hawaii. Oh, okay, so you guys, the reason why I have |
| 1:48.2 | Jessica on today is because she has written two books, |
| 1:51.6 | the Memory Mickey mom and let them be kids, and they are two of my all-time |
| 1:56.8 | favorite motherhood books. I feel like they are so inspiring, encouraging, and I feel like you just have this way about you that we can just tell that you delight so much in your children, |
| 2:10.0 | and that encourages my heart to delight in my kids and to have joy in motherhood. |
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