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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to remember it is just a phase.

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Speaker 1: The terrifying and reassuring truth about time is that it

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Speaker 1: keeps passing no matter what you do. So for a

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Speaker 1: great many things. Most likely this too shall pass. If

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Speaker 1: you can hang on, soon enough, you'll be dealing with

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Speaker 1: something different. I wrote this on a day in which

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Speaker 1: I spent quite a lot of the morning dealing with

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Speaker 1: the mercurial whims of my toddler. It is really no

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Speaker 1: fun to be asked for a waffle, to procure that waffle,

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Speaker 1: and then to be hit because the todd no longer

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Speaker 1: wants the waffle. What kept me bumbling through all this

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Speaker 1: ordeal was remembering that my older children don't do that.

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Speaker 1: They do other things, but they do not hit me

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Speaker 1: for bringing the waffle they asked for. Even if I

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Speaker 1: am being smacked by my toddler for bringing breakfast incorrectly,

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Speaker 1: I will not be being smacked by a toddler forever.

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Speaker 1: My little guy has already moved out of some tough phases.

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Speaker 1: For instance, a blogger I read frequently noted that her

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Speaker 1: toddler was waking up at four am. I have experienced

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Speaker 1: that many times, but knock on wood, I haven't for

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Speaker 1: the past few months. Basically, everyone is sleeping through the

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Speaker 1: night in my house almost every night. Those middle of

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Speaker 1: the night wake ups and early wake ups, they were

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Speaker 1: a phase. They were a long phase, but they were

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Speaker 1: a phase, and now I am in a different phase.

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Speaker 1: Of course, there are good things that are just a phase. Two,

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Speaker 1: snuggling newborns, the few weeks when the flowers are blossoming

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Speaker 1: in spring, it will be spring again, but not for

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Speaker 1: a while, and each season of peak blossoms is fleeting.

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Speaker 1: That's why I decided to travel to Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: Twice during the March week when the cherry blossoms were

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Speaker 1: at their peak billowy whiteness. I knew it was just

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Speaker 1: a phase. Soon all those cherry blossom petals would be

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Speaker 1: like snow on the ground. Best to enjoy it while

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Speaker 1: I could. It is just a phase. Perhaps that idea

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Speaker 1: sounds depressing, but I really do believe we have to

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Speaker 1: view this truth in its entirety approached well, this truth

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Speaker 1: allows us to be calm about truly unpleasant things because well,

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Speaker 1: they probably won't last forever. We can also decide to

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Speaker 1: savor moments that we know will soon be in the past.

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Speaker 1: We can decide to enjoy what we can. Holding these

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Speaker 1: two sides of the same truth together, we can live

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Speaker 1: in and enjoy the moment, even if we know that

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Speaker 1: lots of moments aren't entirely blissful. So if you have

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Speaker 1: something you are not enjoying right now, can you picture

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Speaker 1: yourself on the other side of it? At what point

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Speaker 1: in the future do you reasonably expect you won't be

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Speaker 1: dealing with this? And if there is something good in

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Speaker 1: your life that you suspect will not last forever, which

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Speaker 1: is really everything at least in this world, what can

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Speaker 1: you do to savor it now? Make that extra trip

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Speaker 1: to see a friend, go camping with a kid who

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Speaker 1: wants you to go camping with them, even if it

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Speaker 1: is a bother. Someday it won't be possible to go

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Speaker 1: camping together. It is just a phase. We may as

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Speaker 1: well make the most of it. In the meantime. This

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Speaker 1: is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to make them

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to

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