20 - Bubble Foam and Uterus Buttons - A Mother's Day Ode to Opting Out

Welcome to the  20th episode celebration of Social Distance Happy Hour.

We’re celebrating, not because we’re still in shelter-in-place/quarantine and COVID is killing people and idiots are protesting and everything has become horrifically politicized enough that we’re still talking about it 20 episodes later. We’re celebrating because we’ve survived this far. And if you’re listening, so have you.

If you’ve been listening from the beginning, thanks for rolling with the scrappy nature of this all.

If you’re new to the podcast, we actually introduce ourselves in this one.

Show host and founder Reanna (@reannakwrites )is joined today by frequent guest co-hosts Stephanie (@schishish) and Melissa (@koskim), friends and fellow moms who have been chronicling this experience since mid-March.

Today in Quarantine:

We talk about all the kid activities we're opting out of.

Resources to help you feel guilty about all the easy things you’re not doing with your kids at home: (seriously, I love this account, but...I just can’t.) Days with Grey.

Mother’s Day

Are you a mom? Do you have a mom? How are you celebrating Mother’s Day this year? Tweet with your low-key ideas to @distancehour. 

Recommendations:

Apocalypse Book Club 

Reanna's Pick: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker 

Melissa's Pick: The Long Mars by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett

Don't forget! You can support indie bookstores and the podcast by making your online book purchases through our Bookshop affiliate site: https://bookshop.org/shop/socialdistance

The Like Button

Stephanie's pick: @FacesofCOVID - a man retweeting articles about people we have lost. If you find yourself getting numb to the huge numbers

Reanna's picks: Kate J Baer’s poetry on Instagram (@katejbaer) and I Mom So Hard (@imomsohard)

Melissa's pick: @_HappyAsAMother on Instagram

Listeners: Join in the Happy Hour!

Answer this question: What’s the last nice thing you did just for yourself?

You can answer it any way that’s easiest for you, and we may share your answer on a future episode.

Tweet it to @distancehour
Leave a comment on the associated Instagram post @socialdistancehappyhour
Email it to [email protected]
Go to the podcast page and leave me a voice message

You can do this whenever you want. We’re recording in the first week of May, but these inboxes are open whenever you are hearing this!

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