Moms Deserve A Magical Holiday, Too: Episode 30
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2015
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
"Simplify" has become one of the buzziest holiday buzzwords over the last decade, and today Meagan and Sarah are unpacking what that really means in their homes. Whether you really do want to scale back this season or whether, like us, you're just out to maximize magic and minimize stress, we hope you'll join us for Episode 30!
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Be The Best Parent You Can Be – FREE online parenting video series beginning this week!
- 5 reasons I’m not simplifying Christmas this year (updated) – Laura Vanderkam
- Holiday Episodes of The Home Hour
- Create a Calmer Holiday with Doña Bumgarner (Episode 44)
- Saving Money at the Holidays with Amy Clark of MomAdvice.com (Episode 9)
- Simplifying the holidays with Tsh Oxenreider of Simple Mom (Episode 7)
- Low-Stress Traditions with Sarah Powers (the first time we ever recorded together! Episode 14)
- Christmas at Home with Meagan & Sarah (last year’s holiday chat – Episode 46)
- Living Well on Less with Amy Suardi of Frugal Mama (Episode 5)
- Blogging and Life with Rebecca Woolf of Girl’s Gone Child (Episode 16)
- Essays and posts we’ve written on creating holiday joy and enjoying the season
- Holidays, The Easy Way (a four-part series on The Happiest Home)
- Why Holiday Traditions Aren’t Mom’s Responsibility (Sarah for The Huffington Post)
- Believing in Santa, for now (Meagan for The Washington Post)
- The Reason For The Season? Joy. (Meagan for The Happiest Home)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are welcoming a new sponsor today, |
| 0:02.5 | wondering with their new podcast, |
| 0:04.7 | Tis the Grinch holiday talk show. |
| 0:07.2 | I know that this time of year, |
| 0:08.6 | a lot of us are looking for fun holiday media |
| 0:11.1 | that we can listen to with our kids in the room, but that's also fun for us. |
| 0:15.4 | This show really has all the bases covered. |
| 0:17.8 | Coming to you live from the top of Mount Crumpet, Tis the Grinch Holiday talk show is hosted by Saturday Night Lives James Austin Johnson as the famous curmuggen, The Grinch. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh Megan, I can totally see my whole family getting into this show together. You can listen every week as the Grinch |
| 0:33.6 | goads hilarious celebrity guests as they try to get the Grinch to turn his |
| 0:37.9 | sour Grinchy frown upside down. Will they succeed or will he roast them like chestnuts on an open fire and make the |
| 0:45.2 | who's who of Holywood cry boo-hoo? |
| 0:48.6 | Follow Tiz the Grinch holiday talk show on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:54.0 | You can listen to Tis the Grinch Holiday Talk Show early and ad free right now by joining |
| 0:59.0 | Wundery Plus. Hi, I'm Sarah. I'm a mom of three kids ages two, five, and seven, and I live in Southern California. |
| 1:12.0 | And I'm Megan. I am |
| 1:15.0 | live in Southern California. And I'm Megan. I am the mom of five kids ages six through 17 and I live in Michigan. |
| 1:18.0 | This is the mom hour part of the Life Listen to Network. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 30 of the mom hour. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm Megan Francis here as always with Sarah Powers. |
| 1:31.0 | Hey Sarah. |
| 1:32.0 | Hey, Megan, how are you? |
| 1:33.7 | Good, how does it feel to be 30 again? |
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