You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast. A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom. I'm your host, Diana Renee. And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back.

I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system, and I'm here to share all the tips,

tricks, and encouragement.

Let's listen to today's show.

Hey, you guys, I am really excited because today is the start of a three-part series all about

back-to-school tips for busy moms. So if you might already be back to school, your kids

might already be back to school, or they may be soon, and you're just like, oh, there's so

much to do and there's so much to think about and it's

overwhelming and I get it. So I am here to give you a bunch, a bunch of tips about things that

you can do to just make things a little bit easier. Streamline things a little bit, organize

things a little bit, just make it so that the franticness and like you can just feel

less frazzled throughout the school year. You can take a deep breath and you can remind yourself

that everything's going to be okay because we are going to implement these systems and is going

to make the chaotic parts of going back to school just a little bit easier. If you've already been back

in school, I know, like, every single area seems to have different, like, times that they're in

school or calendars. Like, I know in Colorado, we go back a lot sooner, but we also get out a lot

sooner than, like, back in Michigan where I grew up. And some

areas do year round. So maybe you've already been back in school for the last month. It doesn't

really matter. All of these things can help you at any point in school. It's just when we are

going into the fall season, that tends to be when most schools are going back to

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