Halloween Isn’t Canceled (And Other Thoughts About Holidays In 2020): Episode 281
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This month kicks off the fall holiday season in the strangest year of all of our lives, and moms everywhere seem to be asking the same thing: what do we do about Halloween? From helping older kids deal with expectations-vs-COVID-reality, to finding safe ways for littler kids to celebrate, Meagan and Sarah unpack it all in Episode 281. We also touch on some tips for dealing with our own holiday disappointment as moms, and share some insight about holiday traditions in general to set the tone for the next few months. Enjoy!
LINKS MENTIONED:
- This episode was inspired by the comments on this post in our Facebook group
- This post in the Facebook group also goes into listeners’ thoughts on trick-or-treating specifically
- We mentioned our episode Supporting Kids’ Behavioral Health As The Pandemic Stretches On: Voices 50
- Sarah used Primary.com as the base for Violet’s mostly-homemade deer costume last year
- Sarah’s family reads Pumpkin Soup (affiliate link) by Helen Cooper every year, and then makes this recipe for Butternut Squash Soup with Apple & Bacon
- tSarah mentioned that Oriental Trading is a great place for getting small toys kids love
- Meagan mentioned an old (!!) episode about moms and pressure and holiday traditions
- A listener suggested these skull eggs for a fun Halloween egg hunt
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to |
| 0:05.7 | grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that |
| 0:10.5 | motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement. |
| 0:14.0 | And remind you that it's really all going to be okay. |
| 0:16.4 | We're not experts. We're parents who've been there. |
| 0:18.6 | We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to the mom hour. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey everyone and welcome to episode 281 of the Mom Hour. |
| 0:26.0 | I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey Megan. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey, Sarah. |
| 0:32.0 | I sounded like a cackling witch when I just said that. |
| 0:35.0 | I know. It's funny. |
| 0:38.0 | Jolliele and trouble. |
| 0:39.0 | We are recording this a bit early in the morning and we are talking about Halloween so we'll leave |
| 0:44.8 | your croaky your croaky greeting right in there. |
| 0:47.6 | Oh Sarah. Okay so it is October. It is the beginning of the fall 2020 holiday season for a lot of moms and |
| 1:01.6 | people are excited people are freaking out like I know |
| 1:06.0 | Moms in our community really have a lot of questions about Halloween and I hope I don't sound dismissive that, but I think because you and I are a little |
| 1:14.7 | farther along in motherhood, we wanted to take this episode in two directions at once. One is to kind of talk |
| 1:22.1 | generally about Halloween this year and |
| 1:25.3 | holidays in general a little bit here at the top of the show and kind of set the tone |
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