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 recording on a Thursday. So this is a little weird. I have to warn you, Vinny is here. He probably

will make an appearance at some point. Oh, here he comes into my office right now.

And, oh, and he's whispering to me about his shopping cart. Your shopping card is right over there under the stairs. So, yeah, I'm recording with Vinnie in the house, which I've never done before.

So let's all just take a deep breath and say a little prayer.

I'm recording on Thursday.

And Thursday is what we call in our house stay home day.

And stay home day means that Vinny doesn't go to school.

So he goes to school Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday.

So Thursday is my sacred mommy day where I try to just be mommy all day. But it doesn't always work that way because sometimes we have these spells like the last three weeks where every week is just

craziness. And so we had my mom with us for a week and my mom and I went up to see my sister

who had surgery for two days. So that was two weeks ago. Then last week, I was in LA for three days.

My husband was in D.C. for five days. So that week was all crazy. And last week, I was in LA for three days. My husband was in D.C.

for five days. So that week was all crazy. And then this week, we're coming into a holiday weekend.

So we've shortened the week a little bit tomorrow. And then Monday will be Memorial Day. So we'll be

off for that as well. So I just need my regular schedule back. It's making me crazy. So Vinny and I just got done with lunch

and we're going to see if we can record while he's playing down here near my office. We'll see how

this goes. It's a big experiment here. I hear a lot of noise in the background and I'm not sure

exactly what he's doing, but I'm just going to hope that it's all

good things. So with that, I have to tell you, I'm super excited about our topic today. And I actually

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