Sane & Satisfying Holiday Entertaining: Episode 130

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“Entertaining” sounds intimidating, but how about “open your doors and let people in”? Meagan and Sarah want you to feel like opening your home to guests is an opportunity, not a potential Pinterest-fail, and we’re here to offer some tips for scaling back the expectations and making entertaining fun, sane, and satisfying for everyone. Join us!

This episode has a companion follow-up conversation about hosting big holiday meals coming up this Friday, December 1. Check your feed for that one soon!

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Links we mentioned (or should have) in Episode 130

• Did you catch our Gift Guide Specials? Listen to them (and see all the products) here!
• Past entertaining episodes of The Home Hour and The Mom Hour
• How To Organize A Neighborhood Kids Caroling Party (Sarah wrote this for TinyOranges.com a couple of years ago)
• 5 Rules for Hosting a Crappy Dinner Party (and Seeing Your Friends More Often) – ran out of time to discuss this awesome article, but it’s worth reading if you haven’t seen it!