Hey, so it is Monday at 2 o'clock p.m. in the afternoon. And I'm just recording this.

This is a podcast episode that I totally was planning on recording yesterday on Sunday.

Sometimes we end up having to do podcast recordings over the weekend.

And if I do them on Sunday, I try to really like make them spiritually focused.

But yesterday, Neil was feeling super sick so um not only did we not

record a podcast episode but it was kind of one of those like by the end of the day I felt

like we barely survived and then today it kind of felt like the same thing like getting everybody

up and ready to go to school um our nanny is out of town for the week. And so she usually helps me

with Bobby just during like school hours, my youngest baby. And so she's taking a vacation.

Neil is sick. And it's just feeling like a little bit of a mini survival season.

We've talked about survival seasons in the past on past episodes.

But I just thought about doing an episode today that might be really helpful to moms out there who just need a little permission to do things that aren't like by the book. And today it's 2 p.m. again and I have not taken a shower today.

And that is normally not me.

I'm a shower every day kind of girl, but that's on my list.

So I've got eight things.

And number one is give yourself permission to sometimes skip a shower.

It's just going to happen. There are going to be

days where everything hits the fan. There's, you know, chaotic craziness that you couldn't have planned

for. Somebody's sick. Somebody isn't there to help out that usually is or whatever. And that was

me this morning. And I was like, all right, I guess we're just going for it.

And then the second I got home, too, Bobby needs to be taken care of and chased around and fed

breakfast while I also have work responsibilities and Porniel like did step in and help me while I

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