This week we're sharing the top places we've visited as well as places we thing might be overrated and a listeners hot take on faux plants.

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Elsie's Best Places:

1. Paris
2. New Orleans
3. Venice/Florence

Emma's Best Places:

1. Norway
2. Iceland
3. Switzerland

Elsie's Overrated Places:

1. Nashville
2. LA

Emma's Overrated Places:

1. Mexico

Elsie's best trip before kids:

Palm Springs

Emma's best trip before kids:

LA

Elsie's best trip with kids:

Disney

Emma's best trip with kids:

Costa Rico

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This week we're discussing comfort objects- little things that bring inordinate comfort into our lives. We're also sharing our cozy rituals and ideal way to spend a day.

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Elsie's comfort objects:

1. Hoodies and quilts
2. A blank journal
3. Books / Library ladder

Emma's comfort objects:

1. Cardigans
2. Bedside books
3. Couch blanket

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This week we're sharing what's on our Summer bucket list and discussing a hot take about shoe-free rules in homes.

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Elsie's Summer Bucket List:

1. Family vacation to New England
2. Summer Reading Goals
3. Teaching kids basic skills
4. Establish a family movie night
5. Draft a new novel

Emma's Summer Bucket List:

1. On Sabbatical
2. Family night in Branson
3. Make a digit collage project
4. Take a trip with her husband
5. Clean out kids' toys and books

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This week we're discussing Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke and taking a quiz on what kind of genius we are. We'll also chat about a listener hot take on whether or not kids should be taught euphanisms.

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The 6 Types of Genius:

Wonder

Discernment

Invention

Enablement

Galvanizing

Tenacity

Feel Something, Make Something by Caitlyn Metz

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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This week we are joined by our bestie Katie Day who is here to share the five minute practice that changed her life. We'll also discuss a hot take about white tennis shoes.

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Katie's 5 minute practice:

1. Get water

2. 3 things you are grateful for

3. First person goal

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This week we're getting honest about what it's really like working with family. We've been working together since our early 20s and people always ask how we do it so today we're spilling the tea. We're also discussing what we're reading and a hot take about long vs short books.

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Biggest Pro: Time spent together

Biggest con: More risk to the relationship

Book Report:

Elsie: Lincoln in The Bardo by George Saunders

Emma: Lights Out By Navessa Allen

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This week we're entering a world in which there are no iPhones, no internet, no apps, no online shopping, no social media no steaming and no smart tech of any kind. Yes: We're traveling to a land where you get advice from magazines, information from encylopedias and to speak to someone you must pick up the phone and dial numbers.

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Things we miss:

• magazines (specifically at Borders bookstore)
• malls in the 1900s
• AOL chat
• maps
• phone books
• phone calls on land lines
• listening to an album start to finish on the day it came out
• scheduling your entire life around your favorite tv show
• no one being about to reach you
• Toys R Us (is an amazon childhood)
• computer lab

GUILTY PLEASURE TREASURE

Elsie: Traitors

Emma: Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies

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