Hey everybody, I'm happy you're here. Welcome to the For the Love Podcasts special

bonus series called Quarantine Queens, which we insist you sing. Quarantine Queens. You

know, everything comes in waves and I want you to know that. I am here to tell you that

it is 100% possible to start your day with absolute optimism, like thinking to yourself,

I am going to be the best version of myself today. Even when everybody else is a disaster,

I am totally going Michelle Obama on these people when they go low, I am going high. And

then by the end of the day, you are like sobbing in the empty bathtub with a glass of wine

sitting on a garbage can, which is my exact day a few days ago. I was that human woman.

That is what teens can do to a human woman who suggests audaciously that maybe we should

create a very loose schedule for one part of their day. Internet, the answer on that was

no. I'll let you know that right now. God for bid. So I thought, you know what, I'm

not the only mom right now trying to sort this out in quarantine. We're sorting out kids.

We're sorting out this weird rhythm of our day now where a lot of us are now working

from home that didn't before. Plus our kids are now working from home and all of our

rhythms are upset. And so beyond this sort of emotional heavy lifting or relational heavy

lifting, there's just like some pragmatic stuff. We're all trying to figure out on the

fly as parents right now. How are we supposed to know how to do this? We've never done this

before. We're new to this. We didn't see our parents navigate anything quite like this.

And so I happen to know two very amazing parents who literally always have good ideas

up their sleeves. And we called them and said, can we squeeze into your day for 30 minutes?

And they said, yes, my beloved guest today are Jessica and Matthew Paul Turner who, you

know, are good dear friends of my Jessica has been on the show before when she came on

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