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Winter faves- What the PFN team is loving right now! · SAY GRACE | Weight Loss + Health for Overwhelmed Women- Stress, Busy, Consistency, Realistic, Motivation, Starting Over, No Restrictions

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  Music.
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  All right, y'all. Welcome back to Say Grace. As we head into this holiday season,
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  I thought we'd do something fun and a little different for you guys.
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  So the PFN team is here today and we are going to talk about our favorite things, winter edition.
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  From gadgets to habits, we are
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  each going to dive in on a few things that each of us are loving and why.
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  So welcome Krista and welcome Stacey.
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  Thank you for having us.
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  Okay so Stacey if you do not know is our team dietitian and then Krista is our brand manager.
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  Both have been on the podcast before but we thought just as we're winding down
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  for the year we would come together and just talk about some things that we
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  have come to enjoy over the year.
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  So I know this is going to be a long one so we are just gonna dive
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  right on into it Krista why don't you go first
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  yeah sure I think I talked about this
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  on our last podcast but I have changed my morning routine a little bit and so
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  just getting up in the morning and like immediately going outside and getting
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  sunshine or either doing my devotion or stretching also just like sometimes
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  I just like get up in the morning I'm like okay I need to go stretch.
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  I get in the room. I literally don't turn a light on.
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  I stretch in the dark. No, I stretch in the dark. I put on, you know,
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  worship music and I just stretch for like 30 minutes.
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  Either I'll do that or I'll do my devotion and then I'll go outside and walk.
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  And so the devotion that I'm doing right now is 40 days to a joy-filled life.
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  And it's been really good.
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  And I think it would be good for people to start like in the beginning of the year,
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  but I haven't given myself like any pressure to like start it in 40 days,
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  like, you know, finish it in 40 days so I
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  just kind of do it as I as I want to depending on like how I feel so that that's
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  my probably my favorite thing that I have enjoyed this season so far I feel
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  like so my first one is along the same lines I have I talked about this recently how I just.
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  Just hit my mic I just feel like my days after I like when I wake up that's
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  really my only time like is before the kids get up because once the kids get
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  up we're rushing to get out the door and then once they're out the door I am
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  rushing to get all my work done so I can get them by two,
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  and so for me it's like okay how can I maximize that time a little bit better
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  in the mornings and so I've been waking up and doing a devotion and,
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  gosh, for almost, I think it's been like two years now.
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  I know since we've been in this house, but maybe even before that.
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  So maybe longer, but I've been waking up and doing my devotion,
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  but I was finding myself like doing my devotion and then just kind of like staring off into space.
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  Or like trying, you know, scrolling, like just trying to like feel the time,
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  you know, between then and when the girls wake up and I'm like,
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  okay, I could be doing something a little bit better for myself.
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  So now I'm waking up. It does require me getting up a little bit earlier than
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  I used to, which was a little tough.
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  But I'm waking up. I am doing my devotion and then I'm going outside and I am
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  walking and I usually listen to worship music.
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  This morning I listened to like a Christian podcast just because I felt like
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  I needed, like, I needed, I don't know, I needed some brain stimulation.
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  And so, but I will say it has been so impactful
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  for me to just like get outside like you're saying like
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  get outside with the lord before the
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  day of crazy starts it has totally like
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  it has led to some really transformative things in
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  my heart and so i am with you like that's probably my favorite thing right now
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  to do yeah and they say like getting sunshine within the first hour of your
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  day like does something i don't know what it does but i heard it does something
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  for you oh yeah it's like wakes you up well just what i was talking to Jess
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  about this at dinner the other night, and he called it, what did he say?
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  You're doing a something morning. You're doing a.
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  What did he say? A miracle morning. Apparently there's a, there's,
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  I need to look it up, but apparently there's a thing,
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  like he's heard it on podcasts where like, if you do like four to five specific
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  things every morning, first thing in the morning, like it proves to like,
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  you're going to be more successful.
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  You're going to feel better. Like all the things. And one of them is exercise.
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  One of them is, you know, getting in the word.
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  I know he said journal. I was like, well, I don't do that.
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  But the other two, we were like, oh yeah, I am. i'm doing a
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  miracle morning i can't remember exactly what it was so yeah it's something
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  i do feel like by nine o'clock i have
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  already like slayed the day yeah and really i haven't even started the day you
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  know so and i love like going outside and walking and like literally smelling
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  people brewing their coffee and like sometimes i know this i'm not a creeper
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  but like seeing the kids like at their tables like eating breakfast i don't
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  know like i just It's so weird.
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  I've been just like seeing other people start their day. I'm just like outside
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  walking, like listening to worship music.
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  I don't know. Maybe it's just like the stage of life that I'm in about like,
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  I mean, I get up at like six in the morning.
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  Yeah. 5.30 or six. I'm walking from six to, well, usually from 6.20 to 6.50 for me.
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  And so I do, I get to see the kids get on the bus and I'm like waving at them
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  and they hate me in the morning, you know?
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  And I made the mistake of telling one of my neighbors on Halloween.
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  I was like, I can see you make your coffee every morning.
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  Yes. Just when I walked by her house, her pantry window, I can see her in there.
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  And she says, now every morning I'm like looking out my window. Like, can't she see me?
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  That's just a side note. Anyways, okay, Stacey, what's your first one?
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  So we're three for three here. So mine is the same. There's just something about
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  the stillness in the mornings, in the wintertime.
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  And I have been waking up.
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  God has been waking me up earlier.
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  I joke with somebody in my Bible study group. It's called Wake Up Sleeper.
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  I think it's a song or something or a devotional anyway. But yeah,
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  just that time of just being in the word.
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  And I really need to go walk. Like, that's something I may do.
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  You should do it. Well, I mean, since my youngest will be driving in December,
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  at the end of December, my whole routine will change in January.
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  So I might could incorporate that.
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  But yeah, it's something about your circadian rhythm and like getting out there
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  and smelling the fresh air and get your mind going.
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  Telling your body we're awake yeah you know your body's
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  like we're awake but then you you meet it there like with
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  you know with your actions which you know we did we talked
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  heavily about on the circadian rhythm episode months
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  ago okay what's your next one krista my next
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  one sorry i need my notes oh yeah so kyle
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  and i bought a house this past march yes and so
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  that goes with buying all the new like holiday things and
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  so we're really excited we are going to host
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  our first annual friendsgiving at our house this
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  week actually this saturday and so it's
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  just been fun like buying things for it and just like setting things
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  up i mean there's nothing like having a party or hosting a get-together to like
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  make you do stuff to your house so like we've gotten different porch furniture
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  for outside just different decorations and so that's just been a lot of fun
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  for me just making our house a home during the holidays. I feel like you've got.
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  The aesthetic gene like i don't i
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  mean i feel like decorating my house was kind of a struggle like
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  it's like i like it but
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  i just don't sit um it's not easy for me
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  like it stresses me out and i feel like you are like really good at
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  like kind of pulling things together so i'm excited and like
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  just the process of it like i love going to like
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  thrift stores and consignment stores and like finding a
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  good find or like you know something like that i don't know
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  i just love it so that's what we've been doing how do
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  you get that gene like I wish that I could do
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  that and go like that stresses me out like I
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  have to go in a small space where it's not
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  overwhelming but maybe it's because you're a hairdresser you
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  have that creative gene yeah I don't know where I got it
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  from like I don't know I mean I know mom liked to dig and
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  like you love to dig for like sales and stuff yeah sales
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  that's different than aesthetic honestly y'all.
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  I just I scroll through Pinterest so
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  much and I know that probably doesn't do much for
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  me because i'm constantly wanting wanting wanting something
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  to like look better and like i could do something different but that's
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  how i get a lot of my ideas is like through pinterest i guess
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  and and like i will literally sit in my car before i
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  go into a consignment store and scroll through pinterest and say
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  okay i need like this little gadget or this little thing or like
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  just to try and like because when
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  you go into a consignment store there's so much for
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  your eyes to like search and like see
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  and so I try and like maybe pick four or five things that I'm like keeping my
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  eye out for and that's what I'll go in and like try and get something similar
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  that's how I did when we were building the house like I had to like I kept one
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  well you probably remember like in Canva I was making boards for every room because like.
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  You can get so overwhelmed and then there were so many
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  rooms in this house to be thinking about and so i like
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  i wanted to keep the vibe the same and so
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  i did do that when we were building but i guess now i'm just like well at that
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  point you can just like if you see something that you like you know because
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  i feel like i was going through such a and i kind of still am it's just like
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  you just need a bunch of fillers but like once all of those things are like
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  filled i feel like it's a little bit easier to shop for your house.
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  But yeah, that's what I've been really enjoying.
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  Okay. So my next one is my Christmas trees.
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  I just finished saying I don't digrate, but y'all, I don't know.
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  I don't know why I love my trees so, so much. Like, okay.
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  I think when Jess and I got married, really, like I was like looking on Pinterest,
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  like I wanted the Pinterest Christmas trees.
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  And like, I wanted, you know, here in the South, people pay people to come decorate
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  their tree, like really extravagantly. And like, I wanted that.
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  And like, we just weren't at a place where I could do that. You know what I mean?
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  And so Jess, so I had quit my job and Jess was, you know, doing really well in his sales position.
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  This was before Gloria was born. and we had just moved into our second house,
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  our dear hollow house and perfect fit had like shown up that year.
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  Like that year I'm like, Oh, like I have a business and I'm like making money, you know what I mean?
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  And so I told Jess, I'm like the one thing that I really want to do,
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  like the one splurge that I want for myself is to just go all out on my tree.
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  And so it's like, Like, I don't know, something about my tree is like significant
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  to that. Like, it's like, and I've done that all throughout my business.
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  Like, when I hit, you know, probably one of the largest challenges I ever had back in the day.
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  Like, I went and got a purse. Like, I mean, I have done that.
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  You know, I feel like for me, that keeps me motivated.
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  And so my tree kind of signifies that for me. Like, oh, look at all your hard work.
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  You went to Calloway's and spent stupid money on stupid ornaments.
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  I mean, you know, like it was, you know, and, but it was just something that
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  like, again, I will go dig it dirt cheap and like live my best life.
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  But something about my tree just made me feel like, okay.
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  Have worked hard I can I can do this yeah it resembles what you've put in right
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  words yeah right and so each year I add on to it and like it's so and then like then two two years ago,
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  when we were on the way home from our family beach trip in October we stopped
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  at dirt cheap at a dirt cheap out out of town and we got a 12 foot tree for
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  this house because our cillings are really tall in a living room and we got
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  a 12 foot tree for this house and it was like a ridiculous deal like it was the cheapest.
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  Jess was like, okay, hurry up. Let's strap this thing to the car because something's
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  wrong. The price ain't right on this.
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  And so because of that, I've been adding to it every few years,
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  but I just, or every year, but I just, I love my tree.
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  I love to turn it on. Like everybody's like, all these haters on the internet
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  talking about like, it's still not Thanksgiving yet.
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  And I'm like, I don't care because like, it took me a whole day to
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  put up my tree like a an entire day and so
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  I want to enjoy it so anyway that's that's that
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  yeah I feel like it doesn't matter
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  like as long as it brings you joy like I've wanted to put up our Christmas but
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  because we're doing the Friendsgiving yeah and then I guess I'm hosting our
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  family Thanksgiving I just feel like I know that you always have it up for Thanksgiving
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  but I just feel like I don't know we always get a real tree so I have to wait
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  until after Thanksgiving so yeah,
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  Anyways, Stacey? I promise we did not talk about these. Mine is the same thing.
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  But I have done something new this year, and I did.
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  I put mine up. Actually, it was election night because I was like,
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  we can't sit here and stew over what's going to happen with the country.
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  So we're going to put up the Christmas tree. Let's put our mind on something. Yeah.
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  And I usually do it the week of Thanksgiving.
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  But because we are moving in January, I wanted to try and pack up as much everyday
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  stuff that I could. and just go on and put my Christmas out.
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  I mean, I think it's going to be a new thing because there's no stress anymore.
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  I mean, it's up. It's decorated.
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  You can enjoy it. For me, I feel like I get started on my Christmas shopping sooner.
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  Like, you know, Christmas brings
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  a lot of joy, but it also brings a lot of stress in a short frame of time.
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  So I'm like, the sooner I get my Christmas tree up, one more thing's checked
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  off the list, and I can focus on the next thing.
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  It really is a game changer. So I've done that.
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  And I have two trees that I put up.
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  One of them I did not decorate. But one thing that I love about the tree,
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  I guess it's more like our formal tree, is I started collecting Christopher
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  Radko ornaments, I mean, 30 years ago.
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  And so I've tried to get one a year, and then I'll get some on sale.
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  So when that tree's decorated, it's just all like shiny, beautiful,
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  hand-blown ornaments. But they're all packed away.
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  But our tree in our keeping room is, it's fun and bright and has all the handmade
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  things that my kids have done. Love it. Yeah.
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  Yep. All right, Chrissy, you're up.
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  Okay, so I've mentioned this before, but when I'm not working for Constance
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  and my cosmetologist, I do hair at the Glossary in Madison.
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  And so with the seasons changing comes just like people wanting to do different things with their hair.
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  And it's mainly like blondes wanting to maybe put some low lights in there,
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  like brown, like brunettes wanting to do go like more warm with their hair as far as like ashy.
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  And so getting the creative freedom to just do different hair trends.
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  A lot of people like tend to cut their hair short and it's like scarf weather.
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  So they're like wanting their hair short or bangs are huge in the winter because
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  you're not sweating outside. So it's like easier for people to either do curtain
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  bangs or straight across bangs.
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  And so why does it matter if you're sweating because in bangs,
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  because they'll stick to your forehead.
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  You can tell I ain't never had any bangs. Or it'll curl up to like,
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  they all just get frizzy.
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  And so so yeah, people just tend to want to do something different with the
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  season. So it's it's like keeping me on my feet and like exciting in the salon
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  and to just the atmosphere of the salon alone is fun during the holidays.
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  We're doing a open house this week.
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  And so that's been fun, like decorating the salon and just like seeing the girls
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  that come together and like, plan it. And I don't know, it's just fun.
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  People are so festive in the salon people like bring food and
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  like yeah you know it's just like really good energy but
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  one thing that is difficult is that
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  I'm working still and it's like dark outside
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  when I leave yeah it's like real dark and
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  you're busier in this so you stay later and
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  like I think what you're adding a day and maybe working some Saturdays right
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  yeah in the holiday season yeah I'm working like the full week before I don't
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  know yeah you just have to work more but I mean it's fun like it's a fun atmosphere
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  i'd rather be doing that all right than not so but yeah that's that's another
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  good thing that i've been i've been enjoying,
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  All right, Stacey. So it's funny.
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  I'm thinking about cutting my hair when I go to see my girl next week.
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  So you're going to get bangs?
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  No, no. I did that in the 80s. Nah. So we'll see how the wind blows next week.
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  So this is kind of new to me this year. But so my first, my oldest is a freshman at Ole Miss.
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  And I have missed him. But, you know, we've kind of gotten in a routine.
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  But I am very much looking forward to everybody being under one roof for six
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  weeks because they get a longer break.
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  I mean, they get a week at Thanksgiving and they get six weeks at Christmas time.
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  It's crazy they get six weeks on. Well, they haven't had a break since Labor Day.
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  I mean, they're, he is just like checked out.
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  So I think I'll understand when people say all my chicks are under one roof.
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  So that'll be good and getting to do some fun things with him and just seeing him.
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  Yeah, have him just there when you wake up. Yeah, but I'll probably be ready
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  come New Year's for him to go back.
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  Yeah, because he's going to be all independent this time when he's home, you know? Yes, he is.
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  Okay, so my next one is my garden. And I have talked about my garden a little
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  bit, but I am like turning into a full-blown gardener.
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  And like sometimes it can be so stressful but anyway
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  you know like bugs tried to get in my lettuce this week y'all
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  and I was just like what the heck like I've been babying this lettuce
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  from seed and so anyway they have
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  a so I did the summer garden obviously and
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  then I did for the first time a fall garden and
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  so right now I've got my fall tomatoes finally
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  coming in and then our jalapenos are still just blooming several herbs but I
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  just I like the fall and spring garden foods better like we eat them more here
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  and so we have broccoli and the girls picked out purple and orange cauliflower.
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  And so the cauliflower is slowly coming in, like where it's just a tiny,
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  tiny little head right now. But the broccoli is here. Like I cut my first one yesterday.
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  It was so pretty. Wasn't it so pretty? And so we had some store-bought broccoli.
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  And Jess was like, are you going to, because I cooked broccoli last night.
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  And he was like, are you going to use the garden broccoli? I was like,
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  no. Like we're going to keep that completely separate.
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  And, you know, I did not want to mix it with store-bought broccoli.
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  So broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, which I've never grown.
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  And y'all, I'm just like, what y'all, y'all gonna do anything out here?
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  They just, big old leaves. There's just like nothing else there right now. So we'll see.
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  My garden girl assured us yesterday, actually, that that's normal at this point.
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  And then romaine, a ton of lettuce, a ton of lettuce. And so that has been my
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  favorite, is just having that lettuce.
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  I have both of your bags in the refrigerator, by the way.
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  Just having that lettuce, because I'm a salad girl for lunch. I
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  love a salad and so it's been so nice to just go
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  to the yard and like cut it you know whenever I'm ready but
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  aside from all that like aside from having the like fresh like organic
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  you know food it's just peaceful I love
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  to be out there I love again to get into nature I've really been trying to leave
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  my phone inside and just like really enjoy it but then as soon as I do I'm like
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  standing in the garden and I'm like crap I need to you know see if so-and-so
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  needs some more lettuce or whatever and so I'm like go back in but whatever and.
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  So, yeah, I don't know. We're going to just has given me the go ahead to because
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  I've been trying to have a garden for our entire marriage.
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  Like it was so sad. Our first garden
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  in our first house, our first year of marriage. It was so, so, so sad.
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  But so I'm finally proving to him that like I'm going to actually like follow through with it.
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  And so we're getting the garden girl out here this week.
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  She's going to help me like really make it a space, you know,
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  for hopefully in the spring. So we'll see how that goes.
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  I wish I could be like that. I'm just not good with like plants.
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  I'm just, I don't have a green thumb. I don't feel like. Well, like I don't either.
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  I mean, Jess and I have been married for 13 years and you said,
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  and you heard me say, I tried to have a gardener first year of marriage.
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  Like it's been a really long.
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  But you have more time to devote to it right now just because,
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  I mean, from working from home versus when you're first married. Yeah. I'm so jealous.
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  Like, can she do a free consult for us?
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  And right. And I think that's the thing is like, you know, I'm always and I
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  hate that because I'm always talking about my sourdough and my garden and stuff on my stories.
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  But not to say like I have stress, right?
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  Like I'm overwhelmed with like
• 22:04
  work things and I feel like I'm always on for work, but I am home more.
• 22:09
  So I can take five seconds to stretch and fold some dough and to go outside
• 22:13
  and weed my garden, you know. If you work all day, every day outside of the
• 22:18
  home, that's challenging for sure.
• 22:23
  And so that is just something I found that I like as an outlet because I do have this job here.
• 22:29
  Okay, Krista. So I'm going to piggyback off of that too.
• 22:32
  Yeah, just like the food this time of year is just like amazing to me.
• 22:37
  And Constance, myself, and Candice, we all do sourdough. And so I'm really excited about it.
• 22:42
  Having sourdough like with our soups and stuff like dipping it in our soup instead
• 22:46
  of using like crackers you know so I'm excited about that soup season is like upon us I've only made,
• 22:52
  one soup so far because it just won't get
• 22:55
  consistently cold here but I have soup
• 22:58
  on the menu this week I'm like baby is getting below 55 we
• 23:02
  haven't we haven't soup and so yeah I've
• 23:05
  only done one soup but I have been roasting like a lot
• 23:08
  of butternut squash brussels sprouts broccoli
• 23:11
  things of that like that i've been adding pumpkin
• 23:14
  seeds to like my salads balsamic balsamic
• 23:18
  vinegar to my salads like just making it like more warm warm feeling i love
• 23:23
  putting like a warm vegetable in a salad like a warm butternut squash or something
• 23:29
  like that so yeah the food around this time of year is really really nice i really want to find.
• 23:36
  Something at night that i can drink that's warm
• 23:39
  not like hot chocolate like i want
• 23:42
  it to have like some sort of benefits to it like i've heard of this like
• 23:45
  magnesium hot cocoa i would love to
• 23:48
  like try that or like bone broth or something along
• 23:50
  the lines to kind of like kind of be
• 23:54
  a nightcap to like slow my nervous system down
• 23:57
  at night to kind of like get me ready for bed but i just can't
• 24:00
  there's so many different things out there i just don't know like what
• 24:03
  to have you looked at like the tea aisle like
• 24:06
  they have a decaf like sleepy time tea and all
• 24:08
  that i just don't love tea i don't i like
• 24:11
  chai tea and so they i have found i believe it's downstairs in the thing like
• 24:16
  a decaf and also i've gotten like an orange flavored type tea i don't know i'm
• 24:22
  i still i'm not i am not convinced by it by any means but you could also do what is it called.
• 24:32
  Wassail waste I can't wassail is that how you say it say it
• 24:35
  it's like red and it has a lot of spices in it you know what I'm talking about
• 24:41
  wassail and they have it like a lot of open houses like they had it at mistletoe
• 24:45
  yeah and but Trader Joe's has it in like a container and you can just like pour
• 24:49
  it in a mug and warm it up and I mean I'm sure you could find a benefit for that,
• 24:54
  well you know what's going to happen now is after we leave this like detox teas
• 24:59
  or sleeping teas are going to be on our phone so yeah yeah.
• 25:04
  Okay, Daisy. If it would ever get cool, I'll just love the cozy clothes.
• 25:13
  Like I love if we don't have anything to do at night and it's dark at five o'clock
• 25:19
  to just go in and put on my pajamas and just be cozy and be inside.
• 25:24
  I feel like this is something that a lot of women don't splurge on.
• 25:31
  And I think it's such a mess. Like, I think, like, if you are in,
• 25:36
  like, clothes that are kind of uncomfortable or, like, whatever all day long,
• 25:40
  like, I think you should not just be wearing, like, a raggedy T-shirt.
• 25:43
  Like, I think you should take some time and find – it doesn't have to be – Target
• 25:48
  has really soft, like, lounge clothes, you know.
• 25:50
  But, like, find some clothes that make you feel really comfortable but also
• 25:54
  make you feel, like, cute so that you do feel like, it's 5.30, I can put on my pajamas.
• 25:59
  If a neighbor knocks on the door, it'll be fine. You know what I mean?
• 26:03
  Well, in my cleaning out with us getting ready to move, I really have gone through
• 26:07
  my closet and I'm like, what is benefiting me?
• 26:10
  Like, when is the last time I have worn this? And I mean, I pretty much wear
• 26:14
  the same four or five things every day, I feel like.
• 26:17
  So I did splurge on pajamas and I am addicted to lake pajamas. Lake.
• 26:23
  Yes, they are expensive, but that is what I'm choosing to spend my money on.
• 26:29
  In fact, like what is the material? Oh, my gosh. It's like a Pima cotton.
• 26:32
  They're so soft. I used to get mine. I still do from Soma. And I love their cool nights.
• 26:38
  But the lake pajamas. I've got to look at these.
• 26:41
  They are so good. In fact, last night, Ben goes, are those new pajamas?
• 26:44
  I was like, no, I've had them.
• 26:48
  But yeah. And I mean, they do. They look, I mean, they're pajamas, but they're nice.
• 26:54
  I could open the door if the FedEx man dropped a package off.
• 26:58
  Mine are, I love PJ Harlow and I have been on PJ Harlow for years and years
• 27:04
  and years. But after a while, they start to like ball up on the inside.
• 27:09
  And I also have one pair, which I feel like they're probably like your lake ones.
• 27:14
  They're booty or body. I don't know. It's B-O-O-D-Y.
• 27:19
  And they're like Pima cotton. They're, I mean, it's a long sleeve and a long
• 27:23
  pants, but I can wear them to bed because they're cooling.
• 27:27
  You know, they're not going to make me sweat.
• 27:29
  But yeah, anyway, so if anybody's listening, like y'all be looking for some
• 27:33
  good Black Friday deals.
• 27:34
  On yourself some good pajamas if that's something you feel like they're talking
• 27:39
  to me I need I need to treat myself well and I will say I did buy a pair of
• 27:45
  dupes on Amazon and they are nothing oh no the dupes never are in fact and then
• 27:50
  like my daughter has some dupe roller rabbit PJs for any,
• 27:54
  teens out there that know what roller rabbit is and she's getting a real pair
• 27:58
  for Christmas Is that the ones with the monkeys and stuff on it? Yeah.
• 28:01
  So she's getting a real pair for Christmas, and it's totally worth it.
• 28:06
  I tried to get a dupe woo-woo lemon tank.
• 28:10
  And it was one, it was the whatever the one is that kind of comes up around
• 28:14
  your neck, which I don't love those anyway.
• 28:16
  I don't know what possessed me to do this.
• 28:19
  I walked around my neighborhood this summer in it the first time. And like I had hives.
• 28:24
  I mean, I had washed it and everything. And I mean, I was, I literally gave it to one of my nieces.
• 28:28
  But yeah, I don't do, I don't do dupes very well just because if I'm going to
• 28:32
  buy it, I'm buying it because of the quality of how it feels on my skin.
• 28:35
  And it's never the same, you know. Okay, Krista.
• 28:41
  I guess piggybacking off of that as well, clothes.
• 28:45
  I despise summer clothes. Like, hate them. What is it you hate about them?
• 28:53
  I mean, really just everything. Like, I just don't like swimsuits. I don't like shorts.
• 28:59
  You just don't like fabric really close to your body. At all.
• 29:03
  I don't like tight things.
• 29:05
  I'm like, the bigger the better.
• 29:07
  Like, she's a very, very small human. And we're like, hey, we're getting matching
• 29:11
  t-shirts. What size do you need? She's like, give me the XL.
• 29:15
  Like dead serious. I'm like, um, you mean the XS?
• 29:21
  Like I just hate things clinging to me, like tank tops. Like I don't really
• 29:26
  like show my arms. I don't know. Like I just like the more covered up, the better.
• 29:29
  And I just like layering pieces too. Like think that it's like the aesthetic thing.
• 29:34
  Like I just like layering. And so like having layers upon layers.
• 29:38
  It's just like and too because you're cold a lot
• 29:41
  yeah and it's cozy and i just like the way that it looks and
• 29:44
  so yeah whenever this time comes
• 29:47
  around there's like packages upon packages coming
• 29:50
  to my doorstep with clothes and like i allow myself to
• 29:53
  do it because i don't do that in the summer and
• 29:56
  if i do do it in the summer it's like tank tops from amazon
• 30:00
  that i can get you know messed up at work and
• 30:03
  like you know it's just like the cheap stuff like I don't really spend
• 30:06
  good quality money for summer
• 30:09
  but I will like spend a hundred dollars on a sweater or
• 30:12
  like good pairs of jeans or boots or like things
• 30:16
  like that so I remember your Greece trip when
• 30:19
  you're preparing to go to Greece oh it stressed me
• 30:22
  out she needed summer I needed summer clothes and I knew I was never gonna wear
• 30:26
  them again like I'm just not like a florally flowery like loud like I just don't
• 30:34
  enjoy those like palettes I don't enjoy those like patterns either so.
• 30:39
  Yeah, this is when I, like, really buy, yeah.
• 30:43
  When the hunter green and the burnt orange come out, baby. Give me a grandma,
• 30:47
  like, jacket, like, sweatshirt. Quilted.
• 30:50
  Literally, like, socks, ankle socks, like I'm here for. Yes.
• 30:55
  Clogs. Yeah. So correct.
• 30:58
  Grandma earrings.
• 31:01
  Like, a pin on my sweater.
• 31:05
  I think pins are coming back. You laugh. I saw several at Mistletown.
• 31:10
  Like, what is happening here?
• 31:12
  My mom is all about a brooch. She's going to be pulling them out.
• 31:15
  I mean, those will be the best ones, too, you know?
• 31:20
  Okay, so for me, I am going to say, y'all, this one is a product.
• 31:27
  But it is the Zoe Exfoliating Polish. It's Zio.
• 31:32
  I guess you say Zoe or Zio. I don't know.
• 31:35
  It's in the blue thing. it's like a
• 31:37
  blue little container it's an
• 31:40
  exfoliant okay for your face like I don't know I don't know why it's any different
• 31:45
  than any other exfoliant I've ever used but it's like little sandy salty particles
• 31:50
  and it makes my skin feel so good and I feel like I'm glowing and so I use,
• 31:58
  retin-a or whatever for my for all the things and so that leaves your skin kind
• 32:03
  of dry and peeling And so this specific exfoliant, I've gotten to where I use
• 32:08
  it almost every other day, if not every day.
• 32:11
  And I can't explain it. Like, it smells like a beach. Like, it smells delicious.
• 32:17
  And it's just the best exfoliant I've ever used. And the end,
• 32:20
  I mean. Do you use a body exfoliant?
• 32:24
  Yeah, I was literally laughing at myself the other day. Because I need one.
• 32:28
  Because I used a body exfoliant before I got a spray tan last week for the mistletoe event.
• 32:36
  You know, you need to exfoliate first. And the exfoliant I had in the shower
• 32:40
  was the same one we use for your wedding spray tan.
• 32:44
  So how many years? Yeah, four years ago. So I don't have any recommendations there.
• 32:50
  I have used the, what is that brand? Oh.
• 32:54
  O-A-U-I-Y. Wee? I think maybe. I've used that.
• 32:58
  Like I got like a sample or something from Sephora and it's awesome.
• 33:03
  I just don't use it. I use their lotion.
• 33:06
  Okay. I need to look into their exfoliant. Yeah. I mean, it has great reviews,
• 33:09
  but I just don't use it enough.
• 33:11
  Like I do not exfoliate my body the way I do my face. Not near.
• 33:15
  Yeah. I really want to get into like dry brushing, but I just. What is that?
• 33:20
  It like you literally it's like
• 33:23
  a you've seen those exfoliant brushes but you do
• 33:25
  it dry like on your skin it's supposed supposed i
• 33:28
  think it's supposed to help like it spins no it's
• 33:32
  like a like a brush like your hairbrush almost like
• 33:36
  oh like a bull not a bore bristle but like kind
• 33:39
  of oh and like you're supposed to do it
• 33:42
  on your skin dry and i think it's supposed to help with
• 33:45
  like your lymphatic I don't know I've
• 33:49
  just heard good things about it but like
• 33:52
  does it make it so you don't have to shave as much because that's I don't know
• 33:55
  I think it's just like supposed to get rid of dead skin like it's essentially
• 33:59
  like exfoliate exfoliating your body but I think you have to do it in like certain
• 34:04
  pat like certain directions on certain parts of your skin so it just I don't
• 34:08
  know I could be making all of that up I have obviously haven't looked into it much,
• 34:12
  but I've just heard that it's like a good...
• 34:14
  You get that for Christmas and let us know. Okay, I will.
• 34:18
  Kyle, there's one gift.
• 34:22
  Okay, his turn is it? I've done all mine. Okay. Stacey?
• 34:28
  So I'm going to deviate from my list because I was thinking about something, but...
• 34:33
  Since my husband now works at home ever since COVID and he really he's changed
• 34:37
  jobs and he doesn't travel much.
• 34:38
  I love the winter because he goes to deer camp.
• 34:44
  He's been here since he's going to be so bad. Well, no, because I mean,
• 34:48
  like, we see a lot of each other because, I mean, I'm home, but he's building a cabin out there.
• 34:54
  So that's been the fruits of his labor.
• 34:57
  But I didn't like it when my kids were little because, you know,
• 35:00
  they were a handful. But now that they're independent, yeah.
• 35:03
  And it gives me time. I will go back.
• 35:05
  I like to set goals toward the end of the year and, like, look at where I was
• 35:10
  for that year and what I want to do for the next year.
• 35:13
  So it's restful peace of mind for both of us to do that. To have just some space. Yeah.
• 35:21
  I do feel like, I don't know what it is, because, you know, Jess works from home, too.
• 35:28
  And I feel like when he is out of town, I do different things. Is that weird?
• 35:34
  Like I feel like when he's out of town, I'm more present on my social media,
• 35:37
  which is what I need to be doing.
• 35:39
  Like people need to be seeing my face every now and then on Instagram.
• 35:42
  You know, I feel like I will record more like videos and stuff for reels or whatever.
• 35:48
  Like I feel like when he's gone, I am able to, I don't know, that's weird.
• 35:53
  Cause like he's always downstairs and I'm always up here it's not like
• 35:56
  we're like on top of each other or anything but there
• 36:00
  is something about being able to kind of clear your head and focus like
• 36:04
  when they're gone you know yeah i mean it gives
• 36:06
  you a break from i mean not feeling like you have
• 36:10
  to have groceries in the refrigerator or like you know just i don't know yeah
• 36:15
  bad but yeah like i don't hesitate to hit the drive-thru or do leftovers when
• 36:19
  it's just me and the girls and they're like when's daddy going out of town because
• 36:22
  we get to eat cereal for dinner and sleep in mama's bed. I mean,
• 36:25
  you know, like they're jacked. Yeah.
• 36:27
  Plus, I mean, you just, it's rest for you. Like at night, like if the girls
• 36:32
  go to bed, you can watch your own TV.
• 36:35
  Yes, not waiting on nobody. Yeah.
• 36:37
  Yeah, for me, like I can get in, for some reason, Kyle likes to watch TV like on the couch.
• 36:44
  But I'm like, it's 7 o'clock, let's get in bed and watch TV.
• 36:47
  And he doesn't like it. So, yeah, like when he's out of town,
• 36:50
  like to get in bed at like seven. I mean, I will eat dinner in bed.
• 36:54
  Yes. You know, like it's just amazing. And then not having to feel like you
• 36:57
  have to keep up with like laundry.
• 36:59
  Before the time changed, when Jess would go out of town, Gloria would be like,
• 37:03
  Mama, the sun is not asleep yet. Why are we getting in the bed?
• 37:06
  I'm like, so we can watch 30 episodes of Bluey, you know, until you fall asleep. Like, you know.
• 37:13
  So, yeah, I'm with you on that about, you know, the husband thing.
• 37:19
  Okay, so my, I've got two more and I'm just going to spill them here.
• 37:23
  They're both like product things, but y'all. Okay, so I have never gotten Ugg slippers.
• 37:29
  Like I'm just, I'm so hard on some slippers that there were these certain kind
• 37:36
  from, I can't remember the brand right now, but from like TJ Maxx.
• 37:40
  And it's like they bring them back every year. So I've gotten a pair probably
• 37:43
  every year for three years, and then it's just thrown the previous pair away.
• 37:47
  And so I was actually online looking, I was ordering some tennis shoes for the
• 37:52
  kids for back to school, and I needed like some extra dollars more to get something.
• 37:59
  You know, I'm always trying to get that free shipping or that $20 off or whatever they're offering.
• 38:04
  And so I found, I was like, let me look for me some slippers.
• 38:07
  And so I found these slippers and they're by Bear Paw and they're fuzzy.
• 38:12
  And so they are the closest to Ugg slippers that I will ever probably allow
• 38:16
  myself to get. But they are just, I love them. They're so cute.
• 38:20
  So many people have complimented me when they've seen them and they're so comfortable.
• 38:24
  And so that is one of my new faves that they're just, you know,
• 38:28
  affordable and cute and comfy.
• 38:30
  And then my last one is my heatless curls.
• 38:37
  And so did you find these or did i find these the heatless curls i mean i think
• 38:42
  we talked about them and i think maybe i told you that you needed to get like
• 38:48
  bigger ones i don't know i can't remember,
• 38:51
  so i am really on a hair journey i've been
• 38:54
  on a hair journey for many a years now and i've come
• 38:57
  really far i will say that like my hair was short and
• 39:00
  fried and frizzy and you know
• 39:02
  i've been trying to grow my hair okay and so
• 39:05
  part of that for me is chris yeah krista
• 39:09
  is smarter with my color and i
• 39:12
  put less heat on it and just like more more
• 39:16
  moisture consistently and so but for me what is my hair type like frizzy fro
• 39:22
  i mean i don't know like it is very coarse course okay and so and she has like
• 39:28
  wave in her hair but she doesn't utilize like it's hard she can't really make it cute.
• 39:35
  So she has to put some sort of smoothing agent in her hair.
• 39:39
  In the past she felt like she's had to put heat on it to smooth it.
• 39:43
  Well I think with the combination of her hair being healthier on top of.
• 39:49
  The products and like the heatless
• 39:53
  curls and then also the your air your
• 39:56
  air so like every morning i would wake up in
• 39:59
  the past and like curl or straight straighten my hair
• 40:02
  and every single morning because like by bedtime my
• 40:05
  hair was back curly or frizzy or whatever like it my hair did
• 40:08
  not hold a style and its own style after
• 40:11
  it gets out of the shower is a hot mess and so the
• 40:15
  heatless curls are just like this big like
• 40:18
  rod with like satin wrapped around
• 40:21
  it and you just wrap your hair you like curl your
• 40:24
  hair and secure it in the back and it has allowed
• 40:27
  me to not have to fix my
• 40:30
  hair some morning so you use the the one
• 40:33
  piece the one piece is there more than that is there
• 40:35
  another one well we have that but then Sarah Bray also has
• 40:39
  like it's like five rods I rolled her
• 40:42
  hair last night and she slept in them and just twist them
• 40:45
  well maybe i need those too i mean it's
• 40:48
  the satin rods but i think it was just five of them and how i got all
• 40:50
  of that hair five of them i don't know but and
• 40:53
  her hair looked fabulous this morning so did
• 40:56
  y'all see my story first thing yesterday morning when the one i that's i have
• 41:00
  just taken my heatless curls out like so they it just like today i did not do
• 41:05
  it not that y'all can see podcasters but But I can't do it every day because
• 41:10
  then I feel like it's like super kinky and weird. How often do you wash your hair?
• 41:16
  How often do you recommend someone washing their hair? Hairdresser?
• 41:21
  It just depends on their activity. I mean, I feel like normal.
• 41:26
  It's either like every. I don't recommend you do it every day unless you absolutely have to.
• 41:31
  But every other day, every three days. But like if you're going more than every
• 41:35
  other day, you need a shampoo twice.
• 41:37
  Like, that's making sure that your scalp is, like, clean and all of that.
• 41:41
  And so, but our friend over here.
• 41:46
  I'm very honest about it. She can go, like, legit nine days. Seven to nine days.
• 41:51
  Every seven days is usually my thing. But I went nine. So I went to get my hair
• 41:55
  done by Krista. And I waited nine after that. Because it's like.
• 42:00
  How did your head. I mean.
• 42:02
  Oh, okay. So let me tell you a lot of dry shampoo.
• 42:05
  Well, no, no, but my hair is naturally just like dry, but also like you're talking
• 42:12
  about buildup and stuff on your scalp.
• 42:14
  So I've been using this head massager.
• 42:17
  Like it's a thing you like turn it on and you stick it on your head and it like
• 42:20
  massages. And so it gets a lot of the buildup off.
• 42:25
  It's like just natural. I mean, I don't see it or anything. It's just like daily
• 42:27
  by doing that, it kind of loosens it up or whatever.
• 42:30
  And then, yeah i'm like i do what chris has said like i wash twice
• 42:33
  and then i also have like a scalp scrubber in
• 42:36
  the shower like i really you know i feel like that has
• 42:39
  been a game changer for my length is just making sure my scalp stays
• 42:42
  clear and healthy but like my actual hair hair could probably go two weeks without
• 42:49
  being washed and like not care yeah i mean it's just like i mean it's like she
• 42:53
  doesn't produce like grease or something right like do you ever use dry shampoo I have.
• 43:00
  I have. Closer to when it's time to get my hair colored.
• 43:02
  Like, you know, when my dark starts coming through, I can say,
• 43:05
  like, okay, I need to, you know, I can see those greasy roots. Yeah. Yeah.
• 43:11
  Okay. Did we miss anything? I don't think so.
• 43:14
  All right. So, y'all, this was just a fun one. Just something to,
• 43:17
  like, change up the pace.
• 43:19
  I know sometimes we just don't want to hear me out here hollering about eating
• 43:23
  mindfully and choosing protein and stuff. And so, especially as we head into the holiday season.
• 43:29
  So I hope y'all enjoyed it today with the PFN team. And as always,
• 43:35
  remember to say grace. Bye, y'all.
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