Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from

little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages

of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share

tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're

not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.

Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and happy Friday. Happy September

too, if that happens to be when you're listening to this episode. This is the

mom hour and I am Sarah Powers, one half of your co-host team here on the

podcast. Today I'm here without my other half, Megan Francis, because this

episode is part of our Voices interview series. So in these episodes,

typically Megan and I take turns bringing you conversations that, you know,

shed light on something that two of us haven't personally experienced or maybe

that address an issue that really benefits from a different perspective than the

one we bring to this show. And lately we have been seeing a lot of discussion in

our community about morning routines. So many of you are back to school in

person for the first time in a very long time. Some of you have returned to work

in an office or have moved or changed jobs. And over the last year and a half of

this pandemic, all of our kids have, you know, also just gotten a year and a half

older. So getting back into the morning routine feels, I don't know, like extra

weird this year a little bit loaded. And while Megan and I aren't always happy to

share about our morning routines, we know that families look different all

across the country and across the world. And hopefully earlier this week, you

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