Hey everyone, welcome back to the Maracas Mama's podcast. I'm your host Elizabeth Joy,

and we believe in empowering people through storytelling and education. We also believe

in having fun. I feel like lately that's been something that's been trying to be back

in my life after the episode with Rada on Joy. I'm still thinking about it. I feel like

I'm going to go back and listen to it this week because so much of what she said is what

I needed to hear, just bringing joy into my life, dancing, having fun, doing the things

that I enjoy, and it's hard sometimes to find that balance between like, hey, I should

probably just vacuum and do the laundry and have a dance party and, you know, make dinner

and work. So just having fun is important. I hope that everyone is enjoying December.

Guys, we're in December. Oh, this year is almost over. It's almost 2022. Wild fun

random fact about me. I feel like I never get used to writing what year it is until like

the years over halfway over. But this year, it was so easy for me to write 2021 like

right at the beginning. I think I was ready for 2020 to be over. So I was just like, hey,

it's 2021, like right at the beginning. So that is going to be coming up soon. If you

missed last week's episode, definitely go back and listen to it. We have on Brida, who

is a pediatric physical therapist. We talk all about milestones and her whole program

Instagram website. Everything is called progress through play. And she just has so many amazing

tips on there. And it was just really great to talk to her just to kind of ease your mind

as a parent and also to simplify things. I feel like we sometimes complicate stuff and

she kind of told us like, hey, you don't need to put these things on your registry. Basically,

you just need to do these couple of things for your baby to make sure that they're developing.

It was just a really good conversation. So make sure that you go follow her on Instagram.

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