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My name is Lydia Sohn and I'm a United Methodist minister, writer,
and a mom of two, soon to be three kids
before I had kids.
I've always been a very efficient person.
I'm a kind of a high achiever type, you know,
doing really well in my career and my home life and exercising and cooking and all these things.
And then when I had my first child,
I was so taken aback by how much less time I had available to do all the things that I normally did.
And so that's when I started getting very drawn to these services that promised to help me organize my life better.
You've got a long to do list.
Thankfully you have Door Dash.
Doing my shopping through Instacart saved me so much time and made this cleaning routine possible in 2024.
My goal is to ditch the delivery apps and cook at home.
And Blue Apron makes it so much easier.
So we subscribed to Blue Apron and those kind of like cooking companies for a while just to make meal planning easier.
We had a cleaner for a little bit extra.
And at the time I was also kind of knee deep in these authors