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Welcome back to Verity Podcast, the Honest Marriage Series. I'm Felicia Mason-Himer,

and my husband Josh is here with me. Hello. And today we're talking about parenting.

Parenting can be really heavy, sometimes on a marriage. And we have three children ages six,

four and one. So we're in the middle of the little years of parenting. And we know how exhausting

and tiring those years can be. Even though all years of parenting we've heard can be really difficult.

So we obviously can't speak to ages beyond six, but we hope that some of what we share here

is encouraging to those who are in a season of really little kids. Would you say that parenting

has been a challenge for us at times? Yeah, and it really has. It's funny because like

you would think that like you figured out with one and then like that cookie cutter would work

for all the rest. You wish. That was how it was. But yeah, they get older, and then they change,

and then the second one is nothing like the first one, and the third is nothing like the second.

Opposite. That's been the story for us that our two girls, we have two girls first, Adeline

and Eva, and they are complete opposites in many ways. Somehow Ivan has been able to become

the complete opposite of both of those. It's true. They're all such unique little souls,

and we love them. And I would say before we even get started into this, that Josh and I really

enjoy being parents. Would that be? Yeah. It's fun. It's fun. We enjoy it. We still shower. We

still sleep. We enjoy each other. We enjoy being with our kids. We just want to say that right

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