Welcome to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Erica. And I'm Kelsey. In every episode, we bring our

different perspectives to honest, funny conversations that feel like chatting with good friends.

We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors, and we still haven't run out of

things to talk and laugh about yet. Today's episode is the third in our everyday home series through the month of July.

If you'd like to catch up, we have an episode all about creating a home you love.

And another one on affordable home decor.

Today's final episode in the series is about real life homes.

The details that are weirdly specific

about how we actually live in our actual homes and use them with our families. This episode will

include no fluff, but just lots of real talk from where we eat to how we store things to

desert specific details. If you're wondering about desert life, we've got some details for you.

So let's start with this. What do you think is the room or even just like area of your house

that gets the most wear and tear and what does a given day include in that area?

Okay, well, let me tell you, my house is getting a lot of wear and tear.

Yeah. Because as we were just debriefing we're at

the tail end of my kid's summer break so they're currently wearing and tearing oh boy and the friends

are over wearing and tearing so we have an open floor plan house just like about all houses in our area

right so we have a great room that is our kitchen, living room, breakfast area, all in one big

kind of square space. And that is where we do so much of our daytime living. And I do really

love that about the layout. It works really well for our family. To start the day when the kids are

up, they're either lying around on the couches or rough housing sometimes. Elbow dropping a brother, perhaps.

Playing on the big carpet.

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