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Fear listening on release date that means it's a Monday and you're probably looking down the

pike at a long week just like we are so we are here to encourage you and help you refine this fine

art of homemaking. I am Angela Reid online as Parisian Farmgirl and I am joined by Shay Elliott

of the Elliott Homestead blog. Hello. Hello. Are you cold? What are you wearing?

I'm wearing Monty. Monty is the name of my thrifted gardening. Oh, you're

co- I have my workout clothes underneath. I was trying to cover it. Mine is Elizabeth. My green one,

my quarterback one. It reminds me of something the queen would wear out out hunting or something.

I call it Elizabeth. Yeah. Yeah, this one poor Monty has seen better days. He's been around the

block for a while but I'm kind of enjoying this new stage of life where I've had my things now.

Some of them I've had for a while. It's comforting. It's fun. We moved around coast to coast and

back and rental on this and that and we were just all over the place for so long that you know this

is the longest place we've ever lived anywhere. This is the only place that we've owned and

kind of really sunk our fingers into the soil and even with our stuff you know you go through all

the different baby stages and you're like okay now the bouncer is the most important thing in the

world and then six months later it's not. So there's just like the shuffle crib to toddler bed to

and things are just more settled now. It's kind of fun. I go down like into the storage room and

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