we built a phone monster in the house.

So this is a sweet shoebox with construction paper teeth and a dragon tail.

And Evie will look at me, my two and a half year old and say, Mom, it's time to feed the phone monster.

And she will take my pink phone and put it in that monster's mouth.

I cut a hole out.

And she's right because I'm not there with her.

And I, again, do better with accountability.

So my two and a half year old is keeping me present.

Music Hello and welcome to the slow home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world. My name is Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallory and welcome to season two of the podcast.

We had season one. We did.

Which was 263.

263 episodes long was our first season of the show.

This season is going to be slightly shorter.

Yes.

So what's the reason for this season business, Brooke?

Well, this season will be shorter.

It will have eight episodes.

And the reason, we spoke about it at the end of last year, but essentially what we

discovered in 2018 is that we, what we rediscovered, I should say, in 2018 is that it is not possible to continue

to add things to life and expect things not to change, right, to expect our time and our energy

to expand infinitely. And we realized how much we love doing the podcast, but also how much we want to

start doing other things. I mean, your work has taken a step up. I'm doing other things,

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