100 Episodes Later

I'm not sure how it happened but we've been at this for over a year already. Today we put our 100th episodes in the books. And boy have we learned a lot through this whole process. Today we talked about our journey and some of the lessons we've learned this past year. It's been really fun going completely outside our comfort zone. We're proud of how far we've come. But we also are looking forward to seeing what the next year has in store for us.

Our Niche

Over the last few months, we have worked toward finding our niche. We feel we've defined our focus as a podcast for folks who are interested in marriage and family. We are very blessed to have great marriages and wonderful families. But we don't believe these things come easy or without work. All of our episodes in one way or another revolve around these concepts. We try to keep it light most days. But sometimes we do dive into more serious topics. We know some of our loyal listeners play our podcast in front of their kids. We always try to stay family friendly.

If you're new here we would love for you to go and check out some of our episodes. We have a wide variety of topics we've covered in our 100 episodes. Come back and leave us a comment. We would love to hear what you think. We are also always looking for new topics. Do you have something you'd like to hear our thoughts on? Drop us an email. We will work it into an upcoming episode.

The Blog

Did you know we've recently started writing? Check out Lauren's apricot jam HERE. It is to die for. So so good. Check out some of our other articles going back over the last 2 months or so. If you have an idea of a topic you'd like us to write about, drop us a line

Recap

Podcasting can be challenging in the beginning, but with time and practice, hosts can become more comfortable and natural on the microphone.

Finding a balance between podcasting and family life is crucial, and sometimes adjustments need to be made to accommodate both.

The why behind a podcast can evolve over time, and it's important to stay true to the purpose and mission of the show.

Documenting experiences through podcasting can provide a valuable resource for future generations and offer support and advice to others in similar situations.

Reflecting on the journey and expressing gratitude for the opportunity to podcast can bring a sense of fulfillment and excitement for the future.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Reflection on First Year

11:03 Challenges in the Beginning

14:05 Balancing Podcasting and Family Life

21:11 The Evolution of the Podcast's Purpose

25:44 Documenting Experiences for Future Generations

29:18 Supporting and Advising Young Mothers and Married Couples

33:04 The Why Behind the Podcast

36:09 Looking Forward to the Future after the 100th episode

Transcript

Ellyn (00:06.126)

Hello listeners. Today we are going to talk about our first 100 episodes. You'll be happy to know that this is our 100th episode and we're going to talk about what we learned our first year doing this. But first, what you got going on Lauren?

Lauren (00:27.277)

Well, not really a whole lot. This has been a really nothing week for me and I gotta say I'm enjoying that. I had to turn in some paperwork for the homeschool co -op but other than that I've done nothing that requires me to be responsible for anything.

Ellyn (00:54.043)

I love that.

Lauren (00:55.169)

Well, except for make food for children, like, you know, the kids stuff. I still had to do that stuff. But even they are kind of feral this summer because I get up every day and I just head straight up to the garden. And if they want to come out too, they can. But most of the time they don’t. This morning, they decided that they wanted to run out there and build my littlest child, a Ninja Warriors platform. Or parkour, parkour platform. I'm sorry. Forgive me, all you people out there that care about this kind of thing. I was like she just isn't enjoying this life that you guys are leading out there right now because I think she can't do the obstacles that you're doing so they both got it into their heads that they were going to build her a special obstacle course that had smaller obstacles and it was very effective. She had an amazing time and she came in all sweaty. So I bet she'll sleep well tonight.

Ellyn (02:26.824)

A plus. Sleeping well. Not necessarily sweating.

Lauren (02:33.682)

Right, well I think she's taking a shower right now actually.

Ellyn (02:37.607)

Thank goodness for our husbands. Let me just sing their praises for a moment because my youngest is also with my husband. I believe they're out there taking care of chickens and doing all the outdoor things that need to be done before bed and I so appreciate it.

Lauren (02:55.971)

Me too. I mean, I really enjoy doing our podcast. It's fun. There are many aspects of it I think are really good for my brain, like learning a whole bunch of new stuff and all that. But I do miss the evening time with the family a little bit. I'm grateful that we've gone down to one episode a week instead of two, because I think that really has saved us a lot of time and has given us more time to do more creative things like the Friday blog post that we're doing every week now. And yeah, I just have really enjoyed it. This change and podcasting in general is pretty fun. But my husband has been so supportive of this. almost like above and beyond the normal amount of support for a free range activity like this. So I'm definitely really blissfully grateful for all that he's done since we started this.

Ellyn (04:08.271)

Yeah. I feel like going down to one episode a week, even though the one episode is twice as long as our previous episodes, it still feels like less work because you're only doing it once a week. So you can pour more into a single episode over like when we were doing the Mondays and the Wednesdays. As soon as Monday was over, I knew I had to get working on Wednesdays. So It's nice to be able to put more effort into one rather than medium effort into two.

Lauren (04:53.571)

Yep. Yep. I think, I don't know, I definitely enjoy the more conversational nature of this. And you know, if you guys have any opinions on this, you can drop us a message in any of the usual locations or email lifestyle hustle at gmail .com or on our website at lifestyle hustle .com.

Ellyn (05:15.652)

or on our social media pages. We're easy to find.

Lauren (05:19.447)

wifestyle hustle. Yes, it's still we are and we love it when people reach out to us. We've had a few messages from people that asked questions or had suggestions and it's just it's amazing when people do that.

Ellyn (05:37.215)

Absolutely. Yep. And we always appreciate feedback. So is this good? Well, yeah, so is this good. Don't tell us we're horrible, okay?

Lauren (05:43.122)

right, well, you know what? that is okay too, as long as it's constructive, i enjoy constructive criticism

Lauren (05:55.385)

How about you, what's going on with your week?

Ellyn (05:53.379)

Gives us opportunities to grow. not a whole lot. I have to say I'm really starting to miss my older daughter. She's away at camp all summer. She's counseling, she's lifeguarding, she's all around just serving at a local summer camp. And so I'm really starting to miss her. But

Ellyn (06:23.39)

I will have to wait another three weeks. She is in the mid of her first of three weeks. So she she's working this week. She's going to get to be a camper next week. And then the following week, my youngest gets to go to day camp and she's going to work that too. So I'm missing her. She's her sister's favorite. So when she's not here My youngest tends to be a little bit on the clingy side and that's not always awesome. But other than that, I don't think Lauren mentioned it when she was talking. went as we talked about a little bit last week, we went to our grandmother's funeral last week, last Friday, and it was lovely.

Lauren (06:54.777)

Mm -hmm.

Ellyn (07:18.61)

It was so good to get to remember her life with other people who loved her. And it was really interesting to hear other people bring up a lot of the same memories that they individually had with her, that I also had with her and that Lauren also had with her. she was really a special person to her grand grandchildren. She loved us all dearly. She went out of her way to make her love shown to us. And it was really good celebration of her life. I mean, I don't think you enjoy a funeral, but I enjoyed getting to remember her. it was good. I'm not sure how to say it exactly. It was good to be sad, I guess. It was good to get a good cry out. It was good get to see other people remembering her and thinking about her. And of course, they had a memory wall and a memory slideshow with pictures dating back to before I was born. And so it was really good. And I went away full. So it's sad to have lost her, but I'm glad that she isn't confused anymore. She isn't in pain anymore. She's home. I'm glad.

Lauren (08:55.895)

Yep, it is a big thing. And it was, it was a nice little walk down memory lane because the older cousins, I'm one of the youngest cousins. So are you really. The older cousins remember things that I don't. And I like about the things that she was doing at any particular moment. Like one of our older cousins was, was talking how when she learned to play accordion. And I, for me, she just always knew how to play accordion. I didn't see her learning how to do it because by the time I came along and I remembered anything, she just knew. already knew. So that was part of the person that it was.

Lauren (09:47.833)

But then there were lots of things like that, that they remember her learning and I don't because they were, she just already knew those things.

Ellyn (10:01.969)

Mm -hmm.

But she was a special lady and it was good to get to remember her

Lauren (10:05.059)

Very interesting.

Ellyn (10:16.061)

So, back to this week's episode.

Lauren (10:35.629)

So I think in the very beginning, when we first started podcasting, we had to learn that we were allowed to go into the recording and delete stuff. So our first few episodes, if you guys have ever listened to those, it's a little brutal, Those first few episodes, we didn't delete anything. And we didn't realize that you could. So we went and recorded, I think our first episode, we recorded at least five times before we finally... It was, like, it's amazing we stuck with it. With the amount of, that we just went through for that first episode and...

Ellyn (11:18.2)

That was brutal.

Lauren (11:32.217)

We read all these blogs on the internet. I'm not sure how helpful any of them were about how to run a podcast and followed that advice. So we came up, I want to say with a 10 episodes before we went live.

Ellyn (11:48.025)

that was our goal before we even started was to do 10 episodes so that we were ahead. That didn't last long.

Lauren (11:58.129)

No. Now we do one episode a week and right now we're right on track.

Ellyn (12:08.149)

Right. There is zero room for error in our lives right now, which is why a few weeks ago you guys might have noticed that we missed a week, like completely. And I know that Lauren put something on our social media page about it apologies that we're going to miss a week. And that was the week that we were, Lauren and Steve and the kids came up here to visit us and

Lauren (12:12.387)

Exactly.

Lauren (12:36.228)

Yep. And I think it was the week after, or maybe two weeks after, we had been down in Florida. So it was just a really crazy time for us. just super busy and I, it was actually me. I couldn't get around to editing the episode. So all the ums and stuff that you heard on the first episode, I usually go through and edit at least some of those out so that you don't have to hear us blather too bad. Yeah. Much more smooth.

Ellyn (13:10.944)

To be fair though, we're better at it than we used to be. We, Lauren used to have to spend a lot more time deleting ums and ahs and oh my words and nonsense. We've gotten better, but sometimes in a schedule with a busy family, you just run out of time in that week,

Lauren (13:21.161)

Mm -hmm.

Ellyn (13:39.741)

was one of those weeks where it just wasn't gonna happen. And we, I think we gave up on making that happen by about Monday. We were like, well, this just isn't gonna work this week. And we ended up putting that post out so that people would know so that our listeners wouldn't miss us that week and think that we, I don't know, died in a fiery crash or something. No, we're still here.

Lauren (13:52.953)

Mm -hmm.

Lauren (14:04.417)

Right.

Ellyn (14:05.373)

We're just visiting each other, enjoying our time together, and we'll get back with you guys next week.

Lauren (14:11.669)

And I know how that feels. I listen to some podcasters that put out an episode every day. And when they don't for some reason or another, or they take a week off at Christmas, boy, that is brutal. The whole week? Without your podcast? What am I going to do now? But I don't listen as much in the winter.

Ellyn (14:18.921)

Mm -hmm.

Ellyn (14:26.004)

Really? Right, right.

Lauren (14:37.303)

because I guess because I'm not out in the garden. It seems like I should listen more because I don't have as much to do. But I guess because I'm with the kids all the time and it feels kind of mean to just ignore them. Not to mention I couldn't hear it anyway. Right. So I definitely listen more in the summer, but I have several podcasts that I listen to.

Ellyn (14:53.362)

over the kids.

Lauren (15:07.541)

every day and when they don't put one out I'm like man slacker and here we are putting one out once a week it's like yeah kind of slacking yeah they probably don't have anything else to do they live in their recording studio we

Ellyn (15:17.305)

And we still can't keep up some weeks.

Ellyn (15:28.514)

Right. Another of the things that I have enjoyed since we went down to once a week is, Lauren mentioned the Friday blog posts, which you will find on our website, as well as our social media. We always make sure and put those out, but I've also enjoyed, learning how to do reels a little bit better. I’ve never really done reels before and just these fun little snippets of life.

I really enjoy doing those and they, they're a way to just like the blog posts, just a way to be creative and try something new and just share a little something. So I've really enjoyed that. And I feel like now I have a little more time for that because I'm not trying to push out another episode all the time. And so I feel like that that is just kind of a fun little thing to play with.

And I've enjoyed getting to know it and getting to, you know, learning how to do it.

Lauren (16:32.823)

You know, since we went down to one episode, I feel like we've made a concerted effort to put more content on social media, which isn't always possible either. It's not impossible. It's just I'm in charge of social media and I forget. So there's that.

Ellyn (16:51.472)

These things happen. So I think it would be fun to talk about a little breakdown of what responsibilities we each handle. So you're in charge of social media. What else do you do?

Lauren (17:04.619)

I do all the editing for our episodes, so I am the one to blame if you are annoyed.

Ellyn (17:13.039)

Or to credit if it sounds amazing, which it almost always does. And if it doesn't, it's because my kid is usually yelling in the background somewhere. Sorry about that

Lauren (17:18.407)

Right...

Lauren (17:24.407)

We do, I feel like we really should have a blooper reel of all that because we do delete a section where one of us had to get up and yell at the kids. One time I just sat right here and yelled at them to stop playing the piano right next to like it's right on the other side of the wall from where I record. And, and it makes the dog howl, which is, I mean, that's completely impossible to ignore, I don't know why he has his reaction.

Ellyn (17:56.143)

Nor edit. You can't really edit it out either. The piano or the dog.

Lauren (18:00.683)

Now, now, now we've said stop recording.

Ellyn (18:05.207)

and I've definitely had to fuss at my daughter. Generally speaking, our husbands are around when we are recording, so it isn't usually something we have to deal with very much, but in the... not emergencies, the off time when the husbands couldn't be around and we've had to do

We definitely have to remind the kids that they can't sing. My daughter, she likes to, she loves to sing and she will sit in her room right across the hall from me and belt out songs at the very top of her lungs. I'm gonna tell her to stop that.

Lauren (18:49.923)

So does she sing after lights out at

Ellyn (18:54.951)

No, not usually. Usually she's reading during that time.

Lauren (18:59.455)

Yeah, I had to. So when we had our oldest, she was five, when my youngest, well, you know what, she was really six, when my youngest moved into her room. And she, was like, it was a whole learning process that she wasn't allowed to sing anymore as she went to sleep. It was a little bit sad, really. But I know, but

Ellyn (19:25.572)

Aww.

Lauren (19:30.593)

I was so scared when we moved her in there that they were going to keep each other awake. And it has been just so much easier than I thought it was going to be. So sometimes my youngest will wake up in the middle of the night. And as a person who just recently slept in a tent next to her, it's actually kind of often that she wakes up during the night and says something. and my oldest, and I've heard her do this. My oldest says to my youngest, it's gonna be okay. Just go back to sleep. Which is what I would say if I were up fast enough to say it. And it's just amazing. Like she's so sweet just calm her down. She isn't even mean like shut up and go back to sleep. She's sweet about it. I guess because she realizes that if she said shut up and go back to sleep that that might cause crying and she just wanted to go back to sleep. So the more gentle approach. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty great really.

Ellyn (21:11.253)

So it's self -serving, but it still comes off as kind. I like it. This is a little off topic, but I love for all of our older kids that they're learning to be parents or learning what being an older sibling looks like, and they can take those lessons into adulthood and I love it. And it used to be like this in big families where the olders helped take care of the youngers and you don't see that so much anymore. And so I really like to see stuff like that in my family and your family too. I definitely see it with my older daughter and younger daughter.  My older daughter is learning to parent. I sometimes wonder how good of an example I set, but maybe she's sometimes learning what not to do.

Lauren (22:14.602)

It's great. I think it's not smiled on, so this is way off topic, sorry people. It's not smiled on by society anymore for your older kids to help out. Every time people see that their first comment is, well, why don't they get to be kids? They do, but they don't have to be a child every single second of their life. We can help them grow up a little bit at a time, don't you think?

Ellyn (22:48.68)

Yeah. And it's good for them. It keeps your 18 year old kid from acting like he's five, you know, and helping them to see the value in maturity and maturing and learning to be grownups. And what better place to learn that than at home with your parents.

Lauren (22:53.099)

It is!

Lauren (23:09.859)

Mm -hmm.

Lauren (23:14.233)

I feel like we're raising infants. We're raising 20 year olds that are still infants and relying on their parents for everything. And it's like, no, I don't really want my kids to be that way. I would like for them to grow up a little at a time. They don't have to be grownups when they're five. But you know what? My five year old gets up to the counter and helps with whatever she can. whatever she can reach with her little stool. I haven't quite put a knife in her hand yet, but my older ones handle a knife all the time.

Ellyn (23:47.417)

And I, maybe, maybe next year.

And I think that this is very appropriate for this episode because you know, listeners, that we do love a good tangent and that was a really good tangent.

Lauren (24:05.549)

We do. Yeah, it's a problem. Yeah, it was. But anyway, back to the podcast, you think? So what things do you do?

Ellyn (24:16.71)

I take care of the website and… all of the write -ups, but not all of the articles. Lauren writes about half the articles, but all of the write -ups for our episodes, I write all of those. I take care of the transcript, which you can find that if you didn't know. And in the show notes for each of our episodes, we do include a transcript in case there was just one little thing that you wanted to go back and catch and you don't want to have to listen to the entire episode again, go check out our transcripts.

Lauren (24:48.505)

It's always on Buzzsprout. So if you follow the link back to link from our website back, it will let you look at the transcript. And then it's also, yeah, that's the only place it is. Is it on the website too? it's on the website.

Ellyn (25:08.749)

yeah, it's always on the website.

Ellyn (25:13.872)

So, and so I take care of all of the website stuff and I have to say I've learned a whole heck of a lot. I knew nothing about websites when we started and I'm sure it showed. I had no idea what I was doing. credit to our mom who actually taught me quite a lot about websites when we first got started. So I really appreciated that. And I can't say I still know a whole lot the back end of websites, like I couldn't go write a website or anything like that. I more do the other side of it with the program that we use. And I feel like I have that managed fairly well now. And if I don't have it managed, Google is my best friend. I can find anything I need on there. So that is my responsibility. And then we pretty much split

Ellyn (26:20.931)

down the middle, our Friday blog posts. If you're ever wondering who wrote it, we usually try and include the author near the top of the post. So you can see who wrote

Lauren (26:36.085)

Yep, and I actually remembered one of my other responsibilities Guests. Yeah, it's a big responsibility to have all three guests that we've had on the show but we're hoping to have more and we do have one lined up. We're just trying to nail down a time that'll work for everyone.

Ellyn (26:58.455)

Yep. And I go out and find people who we might like to have as guests. And then Lauren reaches out to them and sets up our time and figures out what we're going to talk about and all of that sort of thing. No, Lauren does harassment. I do finding.

Lauren (27:23.309)

Yeah. Yeah. I'm better harassing as the youngest. It's always been one of my true talents.

Ellyn (27:32.225)

It wasn't that, but sure

Lauren (27:35.393)

Hahaha

Ellyn (27:36.483)

another thing we had to learn at the beginning was learning to be comfortable recording and being recorded and acting like normal people on a recording. If you go back and listen to some of our early episodes, which I recommend you do, because then you will see our level of growth. But if you go back and listen to some of I feel like they sound somewhat mechanical because we didn't know how to be recorded and how to feel natural because it is a little uncomfortable knowing that your every word is being recorded. So it took us a few more than a few episodes to start to feel natural doing that. And So, go listen to one of those early episodes. You'll see that we've definitely grown.

Lauren (28:53.857)

I think another thing that we wanted to talk about today was our why. So why do we have a podcast? And I think we have a whole episode on this. And if not an episode, it's kind of close to an episode. And I think maybe our why has kind of morphed a little bit. I think the big reason that I, like when we started, the big reason I wanted to do this was because a friend of mine had just passed away and at her funeral, she, they had video of her with her girls and they were like hanging out and talking and she made videos to send to her family because they lived far away and I just thought it was amazing. Like those kids are going to have that for the rest of their lives. And then about that same time, I had been reading grandma's journals. She kept a record. So it wasn't really personal. Saying you read someone's journals sounds so personal. It wasn't really personal. She talked like, it was a chronicle of what was happening in her life. I did five loads of laundry. Yeah, I did five loads of laundry today and it was 89 degrees. You know, that kind of thing. But still, her kids and her grandkids can look at it and be like, this is my grandmother's life. And she wrote every single day, at least something. Usually it was pretty short, but sometimes she had a little bit more to say. And I wanted to have something like

Ellyn (30:12.041)

happenings of life.

Lauren (30:38.905)

for my kids to look back on if they ever wanted to. Like if they ever wanted to hear what I thought when I was 40. Yeah, they could come back and listen if they wanted. Or just read the transcript, because that's a little bit faster. But that was my big why. I thought it was amazing that the girl that I knew had done that. And like I said, now her kid, now she has recordings.

with her kids. Remember, look back at it even though she's passed away.

Ellyn (31:16.294)

And I mean, part of what we do here is talk about our families and tell these little stories that really, a lot of them aren't significant enough that we honestly would remember long term. I mean, some of are,

Lauren (31:33.398)

Mm -hmm.

Ellyn (31:37.478)

having a record of them, if our kids ever did want to go back and listen to them, they would be there to listen to. And, you know, God forbid that one or both of us don't make it to old age, our kids can still come back and listen to this. So this was our reason to start. And honestly, has morphed some sense then, although those things that we started it for still hold true,

Lauren (32:11.021)

It's still true. Yeah, right now. It's just added to. There's more reasons now than there used to

Ellyn (32:17.218)

right. And I think one of our reasons more now is, so when Lauren and I, both of us, when we were young mothers, we lived far away from family, we obviously we could call and talk to people on the phone, but we didn't have a social connection. And so I think part of the thing that we've morphed into is speaking into the lives of young mothers and young married women and helping them through what can be a very challenging time in a person's life. If you have three kids under five or three kids under four or three or more, it can be a very lonely, lonely time in your life. And we both felt that when we were young mothers and being able to speak to other young mothers and help them through that time is kind of what we've morphed into. But even more than that, we've both been married a long time. And I feel like that there is a lot going against marriage right now. right. And having been married a long time to, you know, quite frankly, amazing men,

Lauren (33:51.797)

Mm -hmm. And having kids, for that matter.

Ellyn (34:07.477)

I mean, I think they're pretty great. And seeing that amazing isn't overnight, you know, we have amazing relationships, but it took a long time to get here. And there's a lot of growth in that. And there's a lot of give and take and compromise and struggle to make it like that. And it's, mean, there are days it's still like that,

Lauren (34:08.195)

We're very blessed for sure. I know.

Ellyn (34:37.907)

not have or having a young person look at, for instance, mine and Jason's marriage and say, their marriage is just perfect. 

Lauren (34:47.905)

it's not... you know. there's still problems, you know, that need to be worked through. and... yep.

Ellyn (34:56.022)

But it's worth it and the struggle is worth what you get in the end

Lauren (35:04.437)

Mm -hmm. It's an ongoing thing. I mean, I think as soon as you start to feel that everything is perfect and that you don't really need to work that hard anymore is when things start happening that aren't perfect and you need to reevaluate. And also I think it's really important to make sure that your husband is feeling that things are perfect as well.

Ellyn (35:33.655)

Right. So I would say that over the year that we've been doing this, and I hope we'll do it again next year, that this is where we started and also where we are. really where we are is still speaking to our kids, just not where they are right now, but maybe where they are in 10 years.

Lauren (36:01.689)

Right. like that is just huge for me. Imagining and listening to what to do with your kids on a road trip besides just stick them on a screen and you know getting real real advice from that from old old me. Yeah.

Ellyn (36:26.257)

because I will have forgotten what to do with my kids on a road trip by the time they have their kids on a road trip. So go listen to that episode, kid.

Lauren (36:29.483)

Exactly.

Lauren (36:36.343)

Yeah, whatever I said then, you know, because I don't know what I'm talking about anymore. And I sure hope that I remember that I said that I don't know what I'm talking about anymore. Because that's way it is. You just forget you. I've forgotten already how to behave with an infant and maybe not every second of what it was like.

Ellyn (36:53.516)

Mm -hmm.

Lauren (37:04.771)

but it doesn't, seems far away and not as hard as things are even are now. Like, yeah, infants are hard. You have to wake up with them and nurse them and teach them stuff. But you didn't have to go to soccer games two times a week and you didn't have to carry a different one to ballet. it's just different hard now than it was then.

Ellyn (37:33.867)

Mm

Lauren (37:35.489)

And I think when you first have kids, you think, this is only going to get easier. But really, it's probably about the same. A different kind of stress.

Ellyn (37:49.814)

But it is. I don't have to get up in the middle of the night anymore. But my days are not my own. Whereas when you have an infant, your days are still kind of your own because they sleep all the time. 

Lauren (38:06.339)

Yeah. Those little tiny babies, how they sleep blessedly often.

Ellyn (38:19.83)

So in 10 years, or possibly less, I mean, my kids are older than Lauren’s. When they are in that season of infants and little, little kids, they'll maybe be interested in hearing what their old tired mother had to say about it back in the day. And so that is the rest of our why.

Lauren (38:41.611)

Right. It's not the same. Right. Yep. And basically our podcast is about all things home life. And I expect that to morph over time too. The stage that I'm in right now, it isn't even really the same stage as Ellen's in. She's in a different stage of her development than I am. And she's in the same stage too, which is really interesting. I don't know. I find it interesting.

Ellyn (39:16.803)

Yeah, it's exhausting. See, it doesn't get easier. It just gets different.

Lauren (39:26.817)

Yes, it does. It does. And I don't know, I feel like each subsequent child is different too. You act way different towards your oldest than you do towards your youngest. It's like, sorry kid, now you're coming with us to this and you're going to be up until nine o 'clock even though your sister always went to bed at seven thirty.

Ellyn (39:42.577)

Yeah.

Ellyn (39:46.139)

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Lauren (39:59.597)

So guys, that's pretty much all we have to say about that. I mean, our why is here and I think it's really important that you guys know what we're all about. All things home life. So that includes gardening, the kids, our marriage, and how our marriage pertains to everything else in our lives.

even recipes and cooking and and let us just say that it has been a pleasure to be doing this for this past year. This is our 100th episode. We should have said that at the top. This is our 100th

Ellyn (40:40.304)

See, we're still learning.

Lauren (40:45.337)

We are. So that's why this episode was a little bit different and a little bit special because we're kind of looking back and hopefully at 200 it'll be even better. We really love entertaining you guys and just having you tune in every week and seeing our listeners grow. It's been a real, real pleasure.

Ellyn (41:13.713)

Thanks for joining us on this journey.

Lauren (41:17.784)

Until next time…