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 welcome to episode 330 of the mom hour. I am Sarah Powers. Here

as always with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah. So we're talking about kids

and sports and activities today. And I don't know dance lessons, art, piano, all

of that good stuff. And it occurred to us as we were talking about this that we

kind of skipped a whole year last year. We do this every year. I think except

not last year. Did last year even happen? Did it 2020 even happen? So fall of

2020. We actually, I mean, we tackled a lot of topics in fall of 2020, the

return to school and virtual learning. And we dug in. But I know for me, we moved

in the summer of 2020. And then the focus was on figuring out what school was

gonna look like. So my kids were in zero extra curriculars at all in fall of

2020. And I know part of that was our move because if I know in some areas,

there were ways to safely continue your your sports. But for us, it was like it

was like the slate kind of wiped us clean. So yeah, today we're going to look

at sports and activities. Kind of, I don't know, through the lens of what we've

learned over time from having teeny tiny kids and swim lessons or gymnastics or

whatever, all the way up through Megan where you are, which is high schoolers and

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