Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.

And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

We share practical ways to declutter your home schedule and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.

Good morning, Asha. Hello. Hey, how you doing? I feel like this is where we're at. No, this morning

has been the morning of tech fails around here.

We had our remote learning double tech fail and then coming into this recording, we had a tech

fail. But here we are. We made it. We had backups. It's all good. So I thought we both thought

it would be a good time to talk about holidays. It's December.

Oh, my goodness.

The last month of the year that has lasted 18 years.

And quite frankly, I feel like we have been unconsenting participants in a really long social psychology experiment.

And the reason holidays are particularly on my mind is I just feel like, you know,

there have been so many milestone losses for people, birthdays, graduations, just to name a

couple. And I feel like starting with Halloween, it was like circling the jumbo jet, you know,

and then we descended around through Thanksgiving, and now

we are landing at the mother of all holiday months and the times when people typically gather,

whether that's in churches or synagogues or homes or somewhere else, it's December, and it's

going to be a lot. So I thought it would be good to talk about. I mean, that jumimbo jet metaphor, literally, as you were saying that, I was just imagining,

you know, sort of the descent of a large plane.

You know, I'm a sucker for a metaphor.

And I just, I just can't imagine a better description for how this all feels, you know,

somewhat surreal, very complicated, and just the fact

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