This post was sponsored by quip, all opinions are my own.

Earlier in our marriage, Justin and I didn’t always go to bed at the same time. He was still in undergrad and often studied late on campus. And then when my sister and I started our jewelry business, I would stay up late into the night watching Netflix while making jewelry.

It wasn’t a problem for us, but we just didn’t make it a priority to go to bed at the same time! Since having kids, we’ve gotten in the habit of shutting down for the evening together. Neither of us like to stay up late anymore, plus he gets up around 5 AM to go to the gym every morning. So usually around 8:45pm or so we’ll head upstairs to get ready for bed. Since we both run our own businesses from home, we use this time in the evening to talk through what the next day holds and who will spend what time with the kids. I have to say that at this point it feels strange to miss this part of our evening together, and it’s hard to imagine a season when we didn’t do this!
Justin has been an electric toothbrush user for almost 10 years, but I could never get into it because the vibration bothered my extremely sensitive teeth. Occasionally I would try it, but I could never persevere past the discomfort and tingling feeling from the toothbrush “tickling” my teeth and gums.

So I was very excited to try quip because I read that these electric toothbrushes were a good option for sensitive teeth! T...