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sent you. Hey everybody, this is Heidi St. John. Thanks for tuning in today to off the

bench. You guys have found me at my little corner of the internet today is Tuesday, September

7th. And today we're going to hit some of the headlines and especially focus on that

bill that passed making abortion mostly illegal in the state of Texas. Stick around. I think

you're going to be encouraged. Thanks for tuning in today because at a good labor day

weekend, it's always good to just get some things done. Me, I spent a lot of my time throwing

things away. I think that's what happens when I'm under stress and I like just a clean

space around me. And I've been so busy lately that the desk that I write on was like,

you know, three feet high with, you know, old mail. I guess I feel that way. Like the paper

just sort of gets to you. And my sweet husband's been helping me finish a couple of projects

around the house and we're just trying to get some things done. And man, I feel so good.

It feels good because my schedule is crazy busy. So if I have a couple of days to just

get some things done and we got all of our homeschool plan sort of, you know, I mean, is

we got it. Well, we pretty much got it done. So I'm excited about that. So that was good.

It was, it was a win for me just to have a little bit of time off. That's what Labor Day

weekend is for to give the laborers a little bit of a break. So I'm excited that we're

heading out into fall in earnest and everybody's getting their pumpkin spice lattes on. So

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