Hello and welcome to the MS for Mama podcast. I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, happy wife,

mom-in-a-ten Bible believing Christian, and we are going to do an old-fashioned and brief because I have to go pick up my kids from homeschool co-op today.

Catch up chat on today's episode because October has been a doozy. Before we

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the code. MS for Mama 10. Okay, so I said we were going to jump in and do a chat and a catch up

from the month of October, which has felt like an absolute whirlwind,

which I will say that it does every year lately, but especially on years when I am releasing

a book around the same time. So you bet your stretch marks came out on September 2nd, I believe,

and it has been, it's a process. Listen, launching a book. I just saw my friend Jordan Dooley talking about

how when she wrote her first two books, she didn't have small children. She now has three small

children, two bio kids and one adopted. And they're all very young, a newborn and two toddlers.

And she's like, this whole book launching experience is a completely different animal. Like I am not doing a book

tour, which I have never done a book tour either. It just would require too much time away for my family.

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