The Mom Hour

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Two experienced moms and bloggers discuss everything related to motherhood!

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03.05.2021

Kendra Adachi is The Lazy Genius. Either you know and love her already, or you’re about to. Kendra’s principles for finding YOUR best middle ground between perfectionism and giving up are helping moms everywhere decide what matters, ditch what doesn’t, ...

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03.05.2021 Finding & Embracing What Matters To YOU: Voices 58 Kendra Adachi is The Lazy Genius. Either you know and love her already, or you’re about to. Kendra’s principles for finding YOUR best middle ground between perfectionism and giving up are helping moms everywhere decide what matters, ditch what doesn’t, ...
03.02.2021 Making The Best Of The Rest Of The School Year: Episode 302 Whether schools in your area are open in-person, on a hybrid model, or fully remote, chances are that March is looking different than September did. And believe it or not, we’re already looking toward the end of the year. In ...
02.26.2021 This Is Solo Parenthood: Survival Tips For Solo Parenting’s Tough Moments Whether it’s for a weekend, a season, or a decade, parenting on your own introduces challenges and complications at every turn. Expanding on the conversation we began last week, today’s episode--part two in our this is solo parenthood. series--dives into ...
02.23.2021 Will I Ever Sleep Again?: Episode 301 One of us co-slept throughout the baby and toddler stage, and let naps happen whenever and wherever. The other sleep trained and held tight to nap schedules even through the preschool years. While our differences in the realm of sleep ...
02.21.2021 More Than Mom: The State Of Our Style, One Year Into COVID Sarah is wearing children’s sweatpants and leaving the house in her slippers. Meagan has cracked the code on being Zoom-face-ready AND workout-available with a single outfit. It may not look like the mom-style we aspired to you a few years ...
02.19.2021 This Is Solo Parenthood: Four Moms Get Real About Parenting On Their Own From divorce to deployment, from single parenthood by choice to splitting shifts and making it work, every solo parenting experience comes with its own challenges. In today’s episode--Part One in our #ThisIsSoloParenthood series--you’ll hear from four moms who do the ...
02.16.2021 Celebrating Episode 300! Today’s episode is a party and YOU’re invited! Yes you, whether you’re a brand-new listener or have been with us from the very beginning. Ever the planner, Sarah surprises Meagan with a some fun facts and a pop quiz; ever ...
02.09.2021 Feeding Our Families in 2021 (More Snacks, Less Guilt & Keeping It All In Perspective): Episode 299 Early in the pandemic, takeout from local restaurants, pantry cleanouts, and epic baking marathons made a lot of sense for the crazy new world we were living in. An entire year in, however, and the lingering habits and longterm effects ...
02.07.2021 More Than Mom: Our Childhood Crushes It’s February, and everybody loves a deep dive into childhood crushes, right? For this week’s More Than Mom episode, Meagan has many questions for us both about our failed early attempts at love and relationships. From preschool through high school, ...
02.05.2021 The State Of Kids And Food In 2021: Voices 57 The pandemic has shaken everything up, and our kids’ diets and family’s eating habits are no exception. In this month’s Voices interview, Meagan talks to Julie Revelant, food and health writer, mom of two, and host of the new podcast ...
02.02.2021 School Decisions Feel Like a LOT (Here’s What To Keep In Mind): Episode 298 Register for kindergarten, or wait another year? Scrap the distance learning and opt into a homeschool program, or stick it out and hope campus opens in the fall? Stick with what your friends and neighbors are doing, or blaze your ...
01.29.2021 Loss, Hope & Healing: One Family’s Story Of Turning Grief Into Advocacy Getting pregnant was relatively easy for Dani Kilgore and her husband William, who looked forward to growing a family after getting married in 2009. But for Dani, a former teacher and soccer coach who now serves as a pastor in ...
01.26.2021 Advocating For Your Kids During A Crisis: Episode 297 Whether it’s a medical emergency, a surprise diagnosis, upheaval at school, or a mental health situation, most moms will at some point be called to fight hard for their kid’s health, safety, and best interests. And when that moment comes, ...
01.24.2021 More Than Mom: Home & Personal Organization Help Containing our kids’ chaos is one thing; keeping track of our OWN stuff is another altogether. To round out our recent series of episodes about where to put all the STUFF of family life, Meagan and Sarah chat about how ...
01.19.2021 Speaking Our Kids’ Love Languages (And Knowing Our Own): Episode 296 We love all of our kids – but does each of them FEEL our love in the same way? In Episode 296 Meagan and Sarah take on the famous five love languages as a framework for talking about how we ...
01.15.2021 Goal-Setting That Works For YOU (And Doesn’t Make You Feel Bad) With nearly a year of “everything’s cancelled!” behind us, and facing down an early 2021 of “Who knows?”, we’ve all learned a couple things: Truth #1: We all need to set goals and make plans to stay on course and ...
01.12.2021 Where To Put All The STUFF (Part Two): Episode 295 Art supplies taking over your shared space? Losing library books under piles of what-even-IS-this-stuff? Ready for a January re-set of your home’s organization systems? You’re not alone. This week Meagan and Sarah continue the conversation about where to put all ...
01.05.2021 Where To Put All The STUFF (Part One): Episode 294 The holidays are behind us, but they’ve left their mark on our homes: mostly in the form of more STUFF to store. Meagan and Sarah have logged decades of toy sorting and stuff-storing and in this week’s episode share our ...
01.01.2021 Planning & Goal-Setting For 2021 (Is There Even A Point?): Voices 56 For those who love to plan ahead, the past year has been a huge challenge–and the shiny promise of a brand new year feels a little lackluster as we look toward 2021. Is planning and goal-setting permanently on hold, shuttered ...
12.29.2020 Hopes For An Uncertain Year: Episode 293 Meagan and Sarah tiptoe very cautiously into the waters of futurecasting in today's episode, still through the hazy, cheese-filled lens of that strange week between Christmas and New Year's. We talk about where our kids and home lives will be ...
12.22.2020 Acknowledging Holidays Present (Truth Talk About Where We Are This Season): Episode 292 Last week the ghost of holidays past took us on a tour of our past lives as moms of littles during the Christmas season. This week, as we continue the loosest of adaptations of A Christmas Carol, Meagan and Sarah ...
12.15.2020 Remembering Holidays Past: Episode 291 In our very own motherhood-inspired take on A Christmas Carol, Meagan and Sarah are visited by the ghost of holidays past for today’s episode. Join us as we peek in at our younger-mom selves by sharing moments and memories from ...
12.13.2020 More Than Mom: Holiday Food Traditions From spiced nuts to festive cocktails, traditional meat-and-sides dinners to nostalgic or cultural throwbacks, holiday menus are wide open for interpretation. In this More Than Mom episode, Meagan and Sarah chat about the holiday food memories we carry from childhood, ...
12.08.2020 Letting Go of Perfect-Holiday-Mom Pressure (For Real This Time): Episode 290 When you feel the pressure to do, make, or be something this holiday season, pause and ask yourself three questions. Does this TRULY matter to me? Is the PROCESS joyful or meaningful (or is it that others make the product ...
12.06.2020 More Than Mom: Bizarre Beauty Rituals We Can’t Quit Obsessive nail-painting rituals, facial hair secrets, fussy skincare routines, and blame-it-on-COVID changes to our general beauty and personal grooming habits: today's More Than Mom episode is 9 parts confessional, 1 part helpful...but oh, we think you'll enjoy it. Join Meagan ...
12.04.2020 How To Create At-Home Routines So You Can Live With Intention (And Get Stuff Done!): Voices 55 Routines: everyone has them, whether you've created them intentionally or fallen into them by chance. In today's episode, Meagan talks with Ashley Brown, a full-time working mom of two girls ages 3 and 1, enthusiastic Enneagram 1, and the creator ...
12.01.2020 More Listener Questions & Our Advice: Episode 289 A preschooler is obsessed with screen-time after some COVID-related relaxation of the rules; how can the family get back on track? Another mom wonders how to meet the very different needs of multiple kids at the same time, and still ...
11.24.2020 Listener Questions & Our Advice: Episode 288 When friendships are strained by politics and the pandemic, how can a lonely mom re-envision her social life? What ideas do we have for family bonding as kids get older? Can Meagan distill her best parenting advice into five minutes ...
11.22.2020 More Than Mom: Totally Inconsequential Holiday Debates There’s plenty to debate about the holidays in 2020 – and it doesn’t ALL have to be gloomy and stressful. We’re kicking off Thanksgiving week with very lively, mostly half-baked debates about holiday controversies that bear little consequence on anything. ...
11.17.2020 A Judgement-Free Conversation About Shopping More Mindfully This Holiday Season: Episode 287 Shopping mindfully or practicing conscious consumerism can be a powerful way to show our support to struggling or underrepresented businesses this holiday season. It can also be, to use a phrase we lean on more and more these days, A ...
11.10.2020 Pandemic Puppies, Foster Kittens & A Small Animal Pet Debate: Episode 286 The animals in our lives have certainly had an interesting year, what with all the working and learning from home. Many families whose work/life situations previously caused them to hold off on pet-ownership took the plunge and got a pandemic ...
11.08.2020 More Than Mom: Getting Cozy We know that winter 2020-2021 will require all the tips and tricks to keep us going--and it's not even mid-November yet! Today's More Than Mom episode is all about the concept of COZY, and how Meagan and Sarah like to ...
11.06.2020 Time Management & Productivity Tips For Savvy Working Moms: Voices 54 When Whitnee Hawthorne was a new mom working a full-time corporate job she had trouble finding resources for women in her position--so she set out to create them. Now a mom of two and still working full-time for a Fortune ...
11.03.2020 Emotional Labor, Burnout & Completing The Stress Cycle: Episode 285 We’ve all heard the terms ‘mental load’ and ’emotional labor,’ but it’s easy to toss them around without pausing to really understand what’s happening in our minds and bodies when we carry prolonged stress with us in our roles as ...
10.27.2020 Stocking Your Family’s Medicine Cabinet For Cold & Flu Season: Episode 284 Listener Alana wrote to us recently to ask if we have a handy list of medicine cabinet must-haves for cold and flu season. We do not have such a list, but we have much to say! In Episode 284 Meagan ...
10.25.2020 More Than Mom: Motherhood In Your 20’s, 30’s & 40’s Meagan and Sarah have both experienced parenting in three different decades now, and it reminded us of those old magazine spreads that talked about fashion or makeup (or fill-in-the-blank) in your 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. Join us for a fun ...
10.23.2020 BONUS: A Conversation About Pregnancy Loss With Leeann Dearing This episode contains a story of pregnancy loss. October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and recently we’ve seen online and in celebrity culture a few examples of women talking must more openly about their loss experiences, even ...
10.20.2020 How COVID Complicates Parenting, Stage By Stage (Part 2: Big Kids, Tweens & Teens) Older kids and teenagers are experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime event–and they’re old enough to have thoughts about it. As moms, watching our kids miss out on social interactions and developmental rites of passage is tough, as is finding new ways to ...
10.13.2020 How COVID Complicates Parenting, Stage By Stage (Part 1: Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers): Episode 282 Separation anxiety. Potty training. Speech and language development. Socialization. These cornerstones of child development and the parenting experience can bring up questions or create bumps in the road in normal times–but we are not living in normal times, friends. We’re ...
10.11.2020 More Than Mom: Meagan And Sarah Get Stranded On A Deserted Island We’re all dreaming about getting away right now, but traditional travel and typical vacations don’t feel like they’re going to be a thing for, well, a while. So today Meagan and Sarah are dreaming BIG – stranded on a deserted ...
10.06.2020 Halloween Isn’t Canceled (And Other Thoughts About Holidays In 2020): Episode 281 This month kicks off the fall holiday season in the strangest year of all of our lives, and moms everywhere seem to be asking the same thing: what do we do about Halloween? From helping older kids deal with expectations-vs-COVID-reality, ...
10.02.2020 How To Create A Mindful Closet (And Discover Clothes You Truly Love): Voices 53 As moms, our bodies change a lot and we don't always feel like we have permission to invest in our personal style, but what we wear makes a huge difference in how we feel. After Meagan said this to Sarah ...
09.29.2020 10 Things We Love About The 4th Trimester: Episode 280 We’ve covered the hard stuff: leaky everything, blinding exhaustion, night sweats. But the fourth trimester, or postpartum period, has its perks as well. In Episode 280 Meagan and Sarah take turns sharing their favorite memories of postpartum life with a ...
09.27.2020 More Than Mom: Ask Us Anything! We challenged you to ask us your most burning questions–but not about parenting for once! And wow, did you deliver. Join Meagan and Sarah for a fun, silly, and sometimes serious More Than Mom episode featuring your questions about our ...
09.22.2020 Home Learning Success Strategies + Our Kids’ Fall Schooling Update: Episode 279 “Zoom school” is in session in both our homes, although the programs and schedules are very different for our six school-aged kids, grades two through eleven. In this week’s episode we check in about how remote learning is going for ...
09.15.2020 How To Recover When You Lose Your Cool: Episode 278 It’s not if but when: losing your cool with your kids is part of motherhood (especially during a global pandemic). Sometimes we yell, sometimes we cry, and sometimes we stomp our feet like a toddler or sass-talk like a tween. ...
09.13.2020 More Than Mom: COVID Made Us Do It (Weird Ways We’ve Changed Since March) Nothing feels the same as it did six months ago, and in today’s return of our More Than Mom series, Meagan and Sarah are looking at the weirdest ways we’ve changed since March. From some out-of-character purchases to new routines ...
09.08.2020 7 Ways We’re Saving Money This Fall: Episode 277 Meagan and Sarah are both refocusing on personal spending this fall, after a strange pandemic spring and summer brought about changes to the family budget. In today's episode we look at the areas of our spending that have changed since ...
09.04.2020 Decluttering Your Home For The Weirdest Fall Season Ever: Voices 52 Back-to-school season usually means a refreshing change of schedule and, for many parents, fewer hours with kids in the house. This year, the way we use our homes for school, work, and leisure look very different--but that doesn't mean we ...
09.01.2020 Behind The Scenes & End Of Summer Catch-Up: Episode 276 We’re kicking back for a casual chat this week, taking time to update listeners on some of the behind-the-scenes events in both our lives lately. From the details of Sarah’s move to what’s coming up this fall on the podcast, ...

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The Mom Hour episodes:

Finding & Embracing What Matters To YOU: Voices 58

Making The Best Of The Rest Of The School Year: Episode 302

This Is Solo Parenthood: Survival Tips For Solo Parenting’s Tough Moments

Will I Ever Sleep Again?: Episode 301

More Than Mom: The State Of Our Style, One Year Into COVID

This Is Solo Parenthood: Four Moms Get Real About Parenting On Their Own

Celebrating Episode 300!

Feeding Our Families in 2021 (More Snacks, Less Guilt & Keeping It All In Perspective): Episode 299

More Than Mom: Our Childhood Crushes

The State Of Kids And Food In 2021: Voices 57

School Decisions Feel Like a LOT (Here’s What To Keep In Mind): Episode 298

Loss, Hope & Healing: One Family’s Story Of Turning Grief Into Advocacy

Advocating For Your Kids During A Crisis: Episode 297

More Than Mom: Home & Personal Organization Help

Speaking Our Kids’ Love Languages (And Knowing Our Own): Episode 296

Goal-Setting That Works For YOU (And Doesn’t Make You Feel Bad)

Where To Put All The STUFF (Part Two): Episode 295

Where To Put All The STUFF (Part One): Episode 294

Planning & Goal-Setting For 2021 (Is There Even A Point?): Voices 56

Hopes For An Uncertain Year: Episode 293

Acknowledging Holidays Present (Truth Talk About Where We Are This Season): Episode 292

Remembering Holidays Past: Episode 291

More Than Mom: Holiday Food Traditions

Letting Go of Perfect-Holiday-Mom Pressure (For Real This Time): Episode 290

More Than Mom: Bizarre Beauty Rituals We Can’t Quit

How To Create At-Home Routines So You Can Live With Intention (And Get Stuff Done!): Voices 55

More Listener Questions & Our Advice: Episode 289

Listener Questions & Our Advice: Episode 288

More Than Mom: Totally Inconsequential Holiday Debates

A Judgement-Free Conversation About Shopping More Mindfully This Holiday Season: Episode 287

Pandemic Puppies, Foster Kittens & A Small Animal Pet Debate: Episode 286

More Than Mom: Getting Cozy

Time Management & Productivity Tips For Savvy Working Moms: Voices 54

Emotional Labor, Burnout & Completing The Stress Cycle: Episode 285

Stocking Your Family’s Medicine Cabinet For Cold & Flu Season: Episode 284

More Than Mom: Motherhood In Your 20’s, 30’s & 40’s

BONUS: A Conversation About Pregnancy Loss With Leeann Dearing

How COVID Complicates Parenting, Stage By Stage (Part 2: Big Kids, Tweens & Teens)

How COVID Complicates Parenting, Stage By Stage (Part 1: Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers): Episode 282

More Than Mom: Meagan And Sarah Get Stranded On A Deserted Island

Halloween Isn’t Canceled (And Other Thoughts About Holidays In 2020): Episode 281

How To Create A Mindful Closet (And Discover Clothes You Truly Love): Voices 53

10 Things We Love About The 4th Trimester: Episode 280

More Than Mom: Ask Us Anything!

Home Learning Success Strategies + Our Kids’ Fall Schooling Update: Episode 279

How To Recover When You Lose Your Cool: Episode 278

More Than Mom: COVID Made Us Do It (Weird Ways We’ve Changed Since March)

7 Ways We’re Saving Money This Fall: Episode 277

Decluttering Your Home For The Weirdest Fall Season Ever: Voices 52

Behind The Scenes & End Of Summer Catch-Up: Episode 276

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