Today’s episode is the part I didn’t write down. Actually. There are four parts.

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📝 IN THIS EPISODE

· What Parker whispered while Brayden was carrying him home

· What Aiden told me when I got back to the bikes (he didn’t tell his dad. He didn’t tell his brother. Only me.)

· What my husband and I said after all four boys were asleep

· And what was on Brayden’s face at bedtime that I don’t have words for yet

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If you missed Tuesday’s letter · Half A Mile Home · here it is. Read the essay first, then come back to the podcast. The two go together like a fold and a crease.

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If you are new to MOMumental Reinvention · welcome. Two episodes before this one:

Ep 2 · Forty-Two, and the Life That Finally Brought Me Home · the moment at the kitchen counter that Melanie caught by accident.

Ep 1 · On Loving Four Boys Out Loud · the sentence I practiced for six months, and why NEON ID exists.

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This week I read you Sunday's essay · Forty-Two, and the Life That Finally Brought Me Home. Then I tell you the one moment I could not write down. It happened at the kitchen counter before anyone else was awake, on the morning of the birthday I share with my nine-year-old bonus son.

Some things happen at 6 AM in your kitchen and they belong there.

CHAPTERS

0:00 The story I did not write down

[timestamps to be added after final edit]

Voice the essay

A letter that landed · Melanie Donohoue

Outro

COMPANION ESSAY

Forty-Two, and the Life That Finally Brought Me Home

https://www.momumentalreinvention.com/p/forty-two-and-the-life-that-finally-brought-me-home

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MOMumentally,

Erika Hanafin Austria

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I am Erika Hanafin Austria · founder of MOMumental Moments®, IIN Board Certified Health Coach, and Board Member of Luminary, Pepperdine SEC, HONE and Next ChaptHER. Every Thursday: the essay voiced, and the story I did not write down.

In this episode:0:00 · Cold open · the parking lot years2:04 · The essay · On Loving Four Boys Out Loud4:16 · The one sentence I practiced for six months6:07 · The three practices that hold the family together8:15 · The line I would give you if custody time is short right now8:36 · The Co-Parenting Power Method®

Read the original essay: https://www.momumentalreinvention.com/p/on-loving-four-boys

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Music: Worth the Wait by King Sis · via Epidemic Sound

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Fifteen minutes. The night before Baby B’s first birthday. The Letter I almost didn’t publish.

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MOMumentally,

Erika