Listener Questions (Vol. 40): Episode 374

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What’s a mom to do when one kid feels left out of outings his younger sibling gets to do while he’s at school? A listener about to move to a new city for just one year wants tips for finding mom friends quickly, and another listener’s question about how common it is for moms to feel the need to keep spirits up in a family with moodier characters really gets Meagan and Sarah thinking about their own families. Finally, a newer listener is curious about Meagan’s backstory of young motherhood and journey to becoming a mom of five. In Episode 374 we take these questions from our community and – for the first time! – include words of wisdom from members of our contributor team in addition to our own advice. Enjoy!

LINKS MENTIONED:

Meagan is struggling with a fly infestation in her sunroom! Has anyone dealt with this before? If so, Meagan would love to know how you solved it! Reach out to her on Instagram.
If you’re struggling to find mom friends like our listener Annie, our contributor Catie recommended joining Meet Up and our Contributor Stacy recommended finding a MOPS group
How To Make Mom Friends on the blog has some great ideas for finding mom friends, too!

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
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 374 of the mom
0:26.8	hour. I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hi, Sarah.
0:32.7	How are you? Well, I'm okay. But before we got on the mic, I had to make an
0:40.0	emergency run to Meyer to purchase fly spray because overnight my house was
0:49.2	invested with flies. Like are we talking like houseflies or like fruit flies?
0:54.0	Like houseflies, but they're in such numbers as to be very disturbing like a
1:00.4	horror movie or something like is there a much like a horror movie? Yes. Well,
1:05.0	and I'm looking around them like I don't see any signs of like I don't know
1:09.7	decay or I'm not sure like the trash has been taken out. The sink does not have
1:16.7	rotting food in it. I can't like identify the source, but you know I have that
1:21.0	sunroom. And so they all really you know turns out flies really like light. So
1:25.5	they flocked to the sunroom and they're they're everywhere. It reminded me a
1:31.1	little bit of a picture that you took where like birds pooped all over your
1:35.4	car in such numbers that I feel like that picture gave me immediate like panic
1:41.9	feelings. Yeah. And yes. And so anyway, that's where I'm at. Like just I sprayed
1:48.4	them and I hung up the sticky things. And I'm just hoping that when I
1:51.1	emerge from our recording session that they will all have just disappear. But
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