You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey.

And I'm Erica. We're two next door neighbors who love a good chat and a good cocktail.

We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while.

Hey, neighbor. Hey, neighbor.

So before we get started, we have to thank all of our listeners who took our listener survey.

Thank you so much.

Thank you. Your input just was so helpful as we make plans for the future of the show and hopefully

have some exciting things coming your way soon. Definitely. Today we wanted to chat further about the topic

of simplifying or minimizing or tidying as Marie Kondo has defined it for the world.

We have both been on tidying kicks for some time now and wanted to talk about what

minimizing looks like with kids and how we tackle the really tough stuff like sentimental

items.

But first, a cocktail.

This is kind of a riff.

It's a riff on a blood orange sparkler that I found on 101 cookbooks, which is a food blog that I really like.

But let's see.

But I think I stepped it up a notch.

Yeah.

I'm sticking with the citrus base. There's so much

citrus. Yeah, especially here. I mean, everyone's just like giving away bag of both of it. I feel I

feel like I need to vary it, but that is what is on my countertop. So, gin, some sage simple syrup,

which I had remembered was a favorite of ours. I used actually Kara Kera Kera, Naval oranges, which are one of my favorites.

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