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14 Easter Basket Ideas for Teens

Though my kids are 12 and 15 now, the Easter Bunny still makes visits to our house. Even when they were younger, I tried to lean heavy on the non-candy options for their baskets. If I can be honest, it’s…

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The Amazing Race Recap: It’s Phil!

For those of you who have been on this journey of The Amazing Race with us for the past few months, you know we’ve been interviewing as many of our co-contestants as possible. To wrap up these bonus podcast episodes,…

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The Amazing Race Finale Recap

If there was anything more magical than winning The Amazing Race, it was watching our kids watch us win The Amazing Race. When I wasn’t sure if we could even do the show, our daughter Lola took me by the…

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Supporting A Partner with ADHD

It’s taken me a lot of years to give grace to Penn and his struggles with ADHD. Not that I don’t love him, I just didn’t always understand it. If you’ve been following us here for a while, you know…

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Ep. 9 Amazing Race Recap

All my life I’ve always been a rule follower. I don’t cut corners. I don’t take shortcuts. This week on The Amazing Race my rule following almost got the best of me. In a “needle in the haystack” challenge we…

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Changing The Stigma of ADHD

For Kim and I, it can be a bit unnerving giving video content over to someone else to edit. It’s led to some nervousness for both of us this year, as we have been contestants on The Amazing Race, a…

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How To Not Freak Out About College Admissions

With intimidating headlines like “college admissions scandal” swirling around, it is a natural to feel overwhelmed and stressed when applying to college is on the horizon. For us, having a high school aged daughter, the college application process has already…

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Ep. 6 Recap: The Amazing Race

Hi, my name is Kim. I used to live with anxiety and depression. Now I don’t. I have just fundamentally changed my personality. It’s as simple as that. (Please roll your eyes at those previous statements.) If you watched last…

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Wartime vs. Peacetime

Before Penn and I went on The Amazing Race, we trained and planned as much as our work and home schedules would allow. We rewatched old episodes and talked to experts (even learned how to do an oil change on…

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Marriage

How We Anticipate Each Other’s Needs

Marriage isn’t always 50/50. In fact, in our marriage, there are times one partner is pulling the entire load.  Penn and I wrote a whole book about the marriage lessons we’ve learned through counseling and doing life together for the…

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