Girlfriends, episode number 45.

Every mom is a working mom.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends.

I'm Danielle Bean.

I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living.

So what are we waiting for? Let's get started.

Hey, girlfriends. How are you? I'm glad you're here for another episode of the Girlfriend's

podcast. How has your week been? I hope it's been a good week for you. Here in New Hampshire, it's

freezing. Thank you very much. It was 26 degrees this morning when I drove the kids into school. Still early in

the morning. I'm recording early on Monday morning before the rest of my kids are up and ready for

their day here. So it's still pretty quiet except for the other kids, which are the dogs,

which are always making noise downstairs. I don't know. It's so funny to me because I used to make

fun of people who treated

their dogs like kids, and that's how I've started to think of them. Of course, they're animals.

They're not human beings. They're not actually my children. But a lot of the challenges are

similar, similar challenges with regard to caring for dogs and caring for toddler humans. Anyway, like I said,

it's freezing. I don't know if you live in a warm part of the country, but this is when I start to envy

that because the fall is beautiful here in New England. I love the fall. I love the crisp, clear

fall days in the sunshine. But then in November, it starts to get dark and it gets dark early.

We had the time change this weekend. Well, actually, it is supposedly the good one where you gain an

hour, but that I don't care so much about. I care that at, you know, 3.35 in the afternoon,

it's like nighttime. It's starting to get dark out there.

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