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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host, John D'Alene. And today, as always, I'm very excited to have some guests with us.

The two guests are Sarah Jones and Annie Wattups. And they together are the permabloggers for a really outstanding blog that I think all of my listeners should go check out.

And pay attention to the blog is called nest and launch dot com. So that's nest as in birdies and then launch as in rockets nest and launch dot com.

And this blog is dedicated to as they describe it mid stage parenting and enjoying life with big kids pre teens and teens.

So just to speak briefly about the two permabloggers and then I'll actually have them speak more about themselves.

Annie Wattups grew up in cash valley, which speaks very highly of her, I must say. She has three children. She is married.

She let's see is finishing up her PhD at Tufts University, which if those of you don't know, that's in Boston, very fancy school.

And she's studying developmental psychology with an emphasis in what child development. Is that right, Annie?

That's right. And parenting and parenting. And she's a great writer. So Annie Wattups, welcome to Mormon Stories.

Thank you so much. It's good to be here.

Excellent. Okay. And Sarah Jones, I know her is Sarah Brenner.

She is a human. She is alive. That's an inside joke. We were joking about that before. I know. Seriously, she is the mother for.

I know Sarah because when I was growing up in Katie, Texas, Sarah was living. Where did you live? What was your area called, Sarah?

Memorial Memorial. She was living in Memorial. And we actually were pretty good friends. Would you say, Sarah?

Absolutely. When I went, we even went out on a couple dates. Is that right? Yeah, we did.

I think I have like a, is it a homecoming? What is it?

Who was like a junior prom? Yeah. Picture with lots of hairspray involved.

Or at least that's how I remember it. But Sarah, we grew up in the same stake. And she has since done much better in the sense that she is.

She is doing lots of cool things, but specifically, she is a PhD candidate in English literature at Texas A&M.

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