Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from

little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages

of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share

tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're

not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.

Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode

378 of the mom hour. I am Sarah powers here as always with Megan Francis. Hey

Megan. Hey Sarah, happy end of ish summer. I don't know how to say that. I

don't even know where we are. I want it to be the end of summer. I fear it is

like the end ish. Yeah, not quite the end of summer. I don't want it to be the

end. I think you and I are a little different in this in that I really like

to hang on to August because August feels to me like the month with like the

least expectation and usually the least going on. So I just want to soak up the

rest of whatever there is left. And sometimes I find myself almost like jumping

ahead and not wishing it away, but being like, well, it's almost over. Yeah.

Actually, I've still got I've still got some time. So we are recording this on

August 10th in the real world. And you all are listening to it sometime

around. I believe the 16th of August. And this everyone is our accidentally

annual late summer grab bag chat. And I say accidentally annual because we didn't

mean to make this a thing that we always do. But looking back, we almost always

do something like this, Megan. And it's it's usually because recording the

podcast in the summer is we've alluded to this this summer. We will do several

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