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parents nationwide. Welcome to the mom room podcast. My name is Renee Rina and I am definitely the mom

friend you have always wanted. Welcome to Tuesday's episode, but more importantly, welcome to

2023. I hope everybody had a lovely holiday, a lovely new year. I don't know how it is

where you're living, but our children do not go back to school till January 9th. I was like,

what am I supposed to do with my own child for that long? Like, what am I supposed to do? So as you're listening to this, I may still be at

my parents' place up north to play in the snow, drink hot chocolate, roast marshmallows, all those

kinds of things. I don't know when I'll return home. It depends. I tried to get my dad to build a sauna

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