I'm Havela Cunnington and this is Havela's podcast.

Yes, I'm back again and I have a lot to share with you.

But there are two specific things that we need to talk about right away because, well,

I only get a few minutes usually of your time.

First of all, summer. Can we say summer collectively as moms and dads and grandparents?

The kids are home. Dear Lord, it's such a unique season. It's like two months of complete chaos.

And, you know, I love school. I love the routine and the, I feel like I'm an incredible parent

for like eight hours a day. But when it starts becoming a 24 hour, it gets a really

chaotic and I start feeling a bit like the walls are closing in. And then I keep telling myself,

it's okay, this is good. You only have a little bit of time. And so I try to kind of give my,

my head space to just say, this is what real life looks like. And then when, you know, they get,

they come downstairs in their little GMEs and they snuggle up and we just sit and read or watch

something or talk. I'm like, oh, this is all worth it. I love it. So probably 90% of the time,

I'm really happy about it. The other 10%. Well, just, it just confirms that I'm not a homeschooling

mom. Although I wish I was because I do love the idea of it. So. And then secondly, I don't know if

you can tell, but I sound a little different. And that's because we invested in a podcast mic.

Yep. My podcasting has become an adult. It's time to invest. People used to ask me all the time.

So how did you, how do you record your podcast and what equipment did you invest in? And I said,

a $20 mic that we got sent to us. My husband actually found it. And I've been using that mic for,

well, almost two years. And just wanted to see if I would be consistent in podcasting. If there

was an actual way to really, you know, serve you well with podcasting and just see if it's stuck.

I'm a really good starter. I always said I wish they handed out awards for starting because I would

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