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• Final episode: looking back on 2024 and ahead to 2025

  We discuss the past year and look ahead to 2025. Also, surprise! This is our final episode of the podcast and we share our favorite episode and what the pod has meant to us over the last 8 years.Our favorite episodes: Quitting, Hard times, Enneagram 8 Experience (Sarah) and Everyday superpowers and Personal policies (Abby)And because we didn't do a year in books episode this year, here are our favorite reads from 2024.Life latelySarah loved her kids' winter musical performances.Abby got her first tattoo with 13 other adult friends in Birmingham.Reading latelySarah finally read the Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas.Abby enjoyed The Wedding People by Alison Espach.Eating latelyAbby made egg bites like you can get at Starbucks.Neil found a recipe for gnocchi pot pie, which is the best thing Sarah eaten in a long time.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment on our show notes, email us at [email protected], or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Day in our (fall) lives

  Day in our (fall) livesWe share the details of our days from Tuesday October 22nd. You can also listen to our first day-in-the-life episode or similar episodes from 2020 and 2022 if you’d like to see how our days have changed. Links we mentioned:The Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerThe Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth LincolnFever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over American, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy EganLife latelyAbby and Sarah both share about recent trips.Reading latelyAbby enjoyed listening to Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle.Sarah read Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West.Eating latelySarah enjoyed new camping food while Abby was disappointed with Texas fair food.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment, email us at [email protected], or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Our dream lives

  Life latelySarah has a running injury and is rethinking her fall race plans.Abby and fam had an incredible long weekend at the beach.Reading latelySarah shared two nonfiction hits: Behind Their Screens by Emily Weinstein and Carrie James and Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey.Abby read yet another witch book, The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings.Our dream livesWe talk about what we dream of for our lives in 5, 10, 20 years, as well as what dreams we'd have if money was no object or if we could go back in time and change things.Eating latelyAbby has found the perfect snack for work: individual cottage cheese cups.Sarah made a vegan chocolate cake for Neil's birthday.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment on our show notes, email us at [email protected], or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Transportation update

  Transportation updateWe share our current transportation situations, how they've changed since our last episode on the topic, the challenges and joys of this stage, and our transportation dreams for the future.Life LatelyAbby is over the summer and ready for fall.Sarah's family is adjusting to new school year routines with HP in middle school.Reading latelyAbby loved the witchy vibe of Weyward by Emilia Hart.Sarah got a lot out of listening to Die With Zero by Bill Perkins. She originally heard about the book from this podcast interview.Eating latelySarah and E are making Thai iced tea with boba (and these straws).Abby enjoyed the taste of fall with a new apple cake recipe.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment, email us at [email protected], or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Choices in parenting

  We chat about the ways in which we support our kids to learn to make choices and how that's changed in the different seasons of parenting.Life latelySarah and her people had an amazing week at family camp.Abby is over summer and ready for school to start again please and thank you.Reading latelySarah read the contemporary romance Better Left Unsent by Lia LewisAbby loved the trio of queer romances in the Love and Other Disasters series by Anita Kelly.Eating latelyAbby made the crunchy roll bowl from Pinch of Yum.Sarah and E are testing out a chocolate peanut butter cake recipe.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment on our show notes, email us at [email protected], or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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