{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Mommy Hero: Ellie Hamner Ep. 05","description":"Episode 05 Show Notes: Ellie Hamner, The Happy Memory Maker We discuss: Having a great appreciation for the ability to be unemployed and raise her kids How this has helped her know them, learn from them, and understand them more fully One of the biggest gifts of staying home is not being tied to her computer Defining work: do unemployed moms not work or do they work very hard in a different capacity? How she creates every meal from scratch, breakfast, lunch, and dinner and makes them a work of art How she photographs her meals and is working on starting a public Instagram page for her creations How cooking was passed down from her great-great-grandmother How becoming a mom expands horizons of becoming more fully human and food has been a big part of that expansion Her unusual childhood and how it contributed to her awesome life and gave her sense of adventure, a sense of challenge, and more skills and focus How her childhood in nature seems like a lost way of living How she wants to give her kids the freedom to learn about themselves How the very early morning is her centering and clarity time as a mom She shares the quiet early morning and \u201cquiet time\u201d as a skill with her kids How exercise contributes to her mental strength Her relationship with her husband gives her support to be her best How being in the sandwich generation with aging parents and young children has given her extra skills to navigate how to share her energy Creating memories for her children with their grandparents has been an integral part of her parenting How all moms are heroes to her and how vulnerability with them helps her to connect and soak up what she needs to learn from them Here is the awesome chef who made her birthday dinner: John Paul Lechtenberg ","author_name":"Mommy Heroes","author_url":"http:\/\/mommyheroes.libsyn.com\/website","html":"