This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 159. Show notes for this episode can be found by going to

shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 159. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host,

Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams.

I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy are you building?

So let's dive in.

Hello, shameless moms.

I'm happy to be here.

It's September.

Oh my gosh.

So many things to say about that.

So I will first of all let you know that when you get this downloaded on Labor Day,

I will actually be in Europe.

So hopefully I'm off having a great time eating a lot

of bread and cheese and drinking a lot of wine. Someone told me that there's no sulfites in the

wine in Europe, so you can't get a hangover. I don't know if it's true or not, but I'm going to

test that out probably every day. So I'll let you know how that goes.

We are going to Europe to spend some time with some friends of ours who currently live in Luxembourg,

and then we're going to spend some time in Paris. And we're taking Vinny with us. So I'm very excited about the whole thing. It's been a lot of fun planning the trip, and we've been doing

a lot of anticipating. And especially going with Vinny, who's almost five, we've been doing a lot of anticipating and especially going with Vinny who's almost five we've been really conscientious of like trying to sell him on the whole thing because it's not like

going to Disneyland where there's like fun rides and stuff like a lot of the stuff is going to be

way more for us than for him so the things he's really excited about right now are seeing

castles in Luxembourg and going to the Lego store in Paris. So beyond that, I'm not sure

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