24 - End-of-School Energy and Other Chaotic Updates (Featuring Popsicles and Ear Cameras)

This week’s episode is a little life catch-up mixed with reflections on worry, burnout, parenting, and finding joy in everyday moments. Patty shares about the final stretch of the school year, why May feels like “May-cember” for teachers and parents, and how strange it felt having Charlie away on his Washington, D.C. trip for the week.

Amy shares a sweet dentist-day tradition that turned into an accidental cousin meetup, plus a hilarious conversation about ear cameras, clogged ears, and how moms somehow become amateur medical professionals with one Amazon purchase.

We also talk about kindness in everyday life, from helpful strangers at the grocery store to nurses who go above and beyond, and why choosing joy and gratitude really does change the way we experience the world.

They wrap up the episode reflecting on seasons of life, the exhaustion that comes with this time of year, and the reminder that not every season lasts forever.

Ecclesiastes 3:1
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome back to 27 Good.

SPEAKER_00 0:01

I'm Patty. I'm Amy. Thanks for being with us.

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Thanks for being with us. Thanks for listening. You guys are just the best. Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday.

SPEAKER_00 0:10

What's happening? What's up with you this week?

SPEAKER_01 0:11

This is our last full week of school. When this episode airs, I'll be no I won't be done. It'll be Monday. On this day. Yeah. So the end of the year is just so exhausting as a teacher. I just had this funny conversation yesterday that sometimes I haven't I've no one said this to me this year, but sometimes parents or community members will complain that the last few days of school is nothing. Like, gosh, they're just watching a movie. They're just doing field day. You know, where's the academics?

SPEAKER_00 0:38

And we're done. Oh my gosh. We have to cut it off at some point.

SPEAKER_01 0:43

So tomorrow is the cutoff for grades because if I was to take a grade next week, if there weren't kids there for some reason, sickness or anything, they can't ever make it up. It's summer break then. So we have to make a cutoff at some point to be like, okay, now if there's anybody absent, we can catch them next week. So it is next week will just be, it's just nonstop. We do take them to the rubber ducks game on Wednesday, which is or Tuesday, which is nice, because they rubber ducks picks those dates, their educational days were you know the the tickets are cheap and then they include like a little meal, it's like an increstable or something. And and then most of those stadiums are card only, these cashless email. Yeah, and but the zoo is cashless. Right, but since kids go, they let it be cash then because what are these kids gonna do? Take their parents' credit cards. Um they're like one of every right. Wait, I could almost use that as a reason to talk about Charlie's on the Washington DC trip and the company uses, they give them money sometimes for certain meals, and they use a thing called a till card. And what's that like a till, like a cash register till, I think is where it comes from. Um and so you when they were planning the trip, they communicated to the parents that if we wanted to also add extra money and give them other money to spend on the trip, we could get our own till card, and then the company can add to that and I can add to it. And gosh, it's just been the nicest thing. Good. Do you think he's just spending away?

SPEAKER_00 2:12

I'm sure he is. Because he'll hopefully bring souvenirs, I bet.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

No, I bet it's just junk and stuff. They got a meal yesterday at a food court. I think what did he have? It looked like maybe chicken wings and fries, maybe like a wing stops types place or something. But then he went and got like a froyo smoothie, and I'm sure that was not included. So, and what was that? Probably like ten dollars. So it's just he's flying through it. I actually added a little bit more because it's an app on my phone, so it's kind of like Venmo. You can just add to it. So I added more to it today, and I texted him and said, That's it. Like, watch the amount because he can see it on the app too. And I said, When you have today and tomorrow, and I think tonight's meal is they're going to medieval times. Have you ever been to one of those where it's like the nights and the jousting? And then their food is like I think they eat with their hands, like a big chicken wing and like corn and you know, like medieval times. So I said, the you're getting a meal tonight, so I know you don't need money for that, and so you need tomorrow. Just you also want him to spend it all, right? Probably no, because that's the thing. That's what I was trying to say about the cashless. He could take it now, you can use it like a card. You can oh, he can just use it as a debut. Yeah, and so he goes on all those FFA um competitions, and when they go different places, they usually stop for breakfast somewhere like McDonald's, and then they stop for lunch somewhere they've done canes or and I would always have to send cash with him, and then you're hunting it down the change. But with that, then if he doesn't spend it all, I'd just stay on the card.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

So I think it's kind of nice, really. Yeah, really nice. And to see how much is on it easily. Yeah. So I feel like when I had um I remember doing travel as a high schooler, and my mom had to like you have to call and put the money on, like weird things back in the day, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Yeah, with this one, if they gave you $20 for the meal, if you spent over it, you couldn't like you couldn't spend over it. You couldn't say, like, let me pay cash for the rest of it or something like that. Like it wouldn't work that way. So this way, if he spent over what the company had put on the card, he just had the money on to spend. So week without Charlie. Oh my gosh, it's been so terrible. So sad. I mean, not really. He's having a blast and he has his phone, so we're able to text, and uh, think he's really having a great time, but feels really weird without him here. A little bit of a taste of what maybe what it would be like when he goes to call him.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

It's terrible. I thought that when you texted, and I was like, we can't talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

No, and on the way to school today, so Sam's been doing his chores for him, feeding the lambs. And on the way to school today, he said, It's not so bad feeding the lambs. I could do that all the time for Chuck. And I said, You're just saying that because you miss him. And he was like, I do, I really miss him. We just miss him. And Brian said, The house just feels so quiet and boring without him, because he really is just full of energy and full of life. And I mean, Sam has plenty of life and energy too. But it's just family. Yeah, it's just a kind of it's like a weird the balance is off or something. So it'll just be great this weekend because I'll be able to tuck him into his own bed and it'll be fine. Yeah. Very dramatically, one night I slept in his bed, but it was only because it was so hot here early this week. Did you guys turn your air conditioner on? We always do. We're so fast to flip. Yeah, we didn't. We don't care. So Brian is really a maintenance person of like we can't turn it on until he's done whatever. I don't know what it is he does. What does he do? I don't know. I imagine blows some air through it. Yeah, does something. I don't know what he does, but he really works through whatever the meaning is. Not me.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

It's hot.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

And so he was busy in the fields and he kept saying, I can't, I don't have time to get things prepped for the air conditioning turn on. So we didn't, but Charlie's room is in, I don't know which corner of northeast, southwest. I couldn't tell you, but whatever corner it is, it stays really cool. The when he's got two windows on adjacent walls that just get a good cross breeze. And so the one night it was just so hot, and I just went and laid in there. And I did tell him that. I said, Man, your room is great. Especially queen size bed and breeze through his windows. So funny.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

So he comes back tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow late night. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

They stop at Harper's Ferry on the way, which I had to research what that was. And then they go to where that in 9-11, that plane crash in Pennsylvania. Oh. Yeah. So it's he's just been having a blast. He says so far that the Marine Corps Museum was the best part. Gosh. And I've never even been to that. I haven't been to DC. I remember the Holocaust Museum, of course. Yeah, I've never done the upstairs at the Holocaust Museum. Like where the shoes are hanging. Yeah, I well, I didn't go to DC as an eighth grader.

unknown 6:31

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 6:32

I discussed with my mom. I couldn't figure out why. It maybe might have just been I was a homebody. Yeah. I don't I don't know. Did we not go that year? I have no idea, but I didn't go. But then when I was going into my senior year of college, I had this internship in Washington, DC, and I lived there for six weeks. But I never did, I did a lot of the saw a lot of the city, did a lot, but I didn't do I did the downstairs of the Holocaust Museum, and I never did I didn't even think I knew that there was a Marine Corps museum.

SPEAKER_00 7:00

I didn't either.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

So fine. What's up with you? We had the most fun day, and I just have the funniest story for you. So our dentist is like 40, 40 minutes away.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Yeah, I actually checking Charlie's location all the time on my phone because he's in Washington, D.C. And I saw you were in Brunswick, and at one point I almost texted you like Chick-fil-A for lunch.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

Which was Chick-fil-A for lunch, just the best. So growing up, we went to a pediatric dentist. I was thinking about this today because I always want to make going to the dentist the most fun day. It's like we're getting lunch after or getting coffee before or something fun. And I think it's because when we grew up, we would always go to the dentist. It was far away, like 45 minutes. And then there was a place called Marion's Pizza. And it was always just like this. I don't know what was so special about it. The way they had the meat on top, it just was unique. And it was just always like our little family treat. And I have five siblings, so it was like everyone in the car we're going. So, anyways, today a day off of school. Yeah, day off. I don't know, knowing my mom, she probably scheduled it always over summer. But oh yeah, probably like shoot, yeah. But you go six months, so summer and Christmas. Christmas. That's probably what you did. But still the most fun. And so today though, so Austin doesn't go yet. He's he'll go on when he turns three. But we only go to this place because almost three of my kids had tongue ties, and that's where they did the tongue tie revision. And so then you're just like, well, this place is awesome, so we'll just stay here. And Jason has told me, like, you guys should switch to Worcester so it's not so far. I'm like, no, that's just the fun of going to this other place. So my sister-in-law also takes her daughter there, and she texted me last night and said, What are you guys doing tomorrow? We're going to the dentist at 11. And then we're like free for the day. And I was laying in bed with Samantha and we just started laughing. I was like, No way, we're going to the dentist at 11. I love that. I know. It was so fun. So they should they had their appointments and then they went to lunch with us.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

And it was just Does Anna just go because you went? Probably. Like this.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

Because she didn't Kelly didn't have a tongue tie or anything. No, I don't know if she ever went or not. I don't think she did. I think it was probably just like, what dentist do you go to? You love it, and they tried it too. But what's so funny is we've tried to schedule them together and it just has never worked out. And so it was just, I can't stop. Like, what are the odds? Perfect timing. So you did the same time.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Everybody did the dentist, and then you just went to check Chick Flake to do something else. No. I almost texted you to be like, is there a target there?

SPEAKER_00 9:20

Because there is, and I almost did it.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Because yesterday I took my dad to an appointment and I was like 45 minutes early getting up. It was way up in Willoughby. And I was 45 minutes early. And what's open that early? I dropped Sam off at school at 7.15, so it was 9 a.m. by the time I got up there, a little bit earlier than that. And I was like, there's nothing open to go do at 8:30 in the morning. Right. Target's open. Target's open. And all of the summer stuff. I should have just texted you because all of the summer stuff was on sale this week. And always leading up to summer, I bought, you know, new sidewalk chalk, a new sprinkler. We really should have gone. Water guns, like the things that stop it. Only last like one season. And we just go online, but they're all on sale on the night.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

I have a bunch of target orders. Mostly I was just pooped. I feel like I didn't get enough sleep last night and I just was ready to go home. But and it was our like fun day.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

I did get, you know, the like push-pop um popsicles that come melted and you have to put them in the freezer. You know, like you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, but like the plastic tubes.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Yes, yeah. Yeah. Like a regular freeze regular freeze pop, yeah. I don't know. The push-pop made me think like right, okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

I used the wrong words. Um just regular popsicles. Yeah, but they're not regular popsicles because regular sprinkles. So the reason why we're I'm plastic. I'm going this route is because I told my mom that I had popsicles and I was at her house after the appointment, and she was like, What? Are they melting in your car? No, mom, they come melted. So, anyways, I got they have Italian ice version of it. So Yum. Like those. I don't know. Stay tuned. I bought them. They were three, a big pack for three dollars. So fun. It was kind of fun to get some summer stuff. It's so different because my kids are big, so I'm not buying score guns and water balloons and all the things that I used to like just stock up on. Yeah. They would probably still really love a water gun fight.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

Yeah, probably. Gosh, that's so fun. Um, yeah, it was just the best. You said you should have popsicles too. Yeah, we did in my grocery order. What ones did you get?

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Um I'm kind of a popsicle person.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Yeah, not those. It was the one with the stick. Were the red, white, and blue ones? No, I almost got those. But instead, Samantha's been asking for the strawberry ones. And so I just got like a three-pack. Yeah. Strawberry tangerine and raspberry.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Oh, yeah, those are good. I know exactly what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

She's already getting two of them. And it's like, here's dessert. Right. And they're so funny. This can't go wrong with the popsicle. No. Um, yeah, that was so funny because that day I texted you. But what I wanted to tell you tonight, um, I wasn't like later, but Jason was home earlier, and he's like, I need you to do me a favor. So he asks that, but then Austin keeps climbing up on this little bench we have, and he finally fell off of it. Right as Jason's asking. So he's screaming, he's fine. But Jason's like, I need you to look in my ear with that ear thing. Do you remember this? Why did you get the thing? So there's this tool. It's the camera. Yes. That connects to your phone. Just like wax. But he's like, something like that.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

I need somebody to do that to me because my ear is still clogged months later.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Yeah, get it out. You want to do it? I should have brought it. Yeah. I don't know where it is. We have to tell people what it is. Because I have no idea. Okay. It's like a $20 thing on Amazon and it connects to your phone wirelessly and you poke it in your ear and it has a camera. So we got it because I think it was after we flew.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

You know how sometimes when you fly, the plane makes your ears weird and it stays that way for a long time. I don't think maybe that's what happened to me. It was from February.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

Because I think it doesn't attach it.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

It's been clogged probably the same. Yeah. Well, it it isn't always clogged every day, but it like today it was clogged. I don't know. I always say I'm a barometer. I know. It's gonna rain. I can tell my ear's clogged. Um speaking to my good ear. But I did get an what is it, the neti pot. Oh yeah. I just haven't used it yet. So it feels like a really big assignment, like a big task.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

It kind of is, and it's kind of weird. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

You have to have your angle if you're because I'm convinced it's more sinus than my ear, even though it's my ear that's clogged, but I I'm not a doctor, so I don't really know. Yeah. So yeah, we Brian had this clogged ear, and he just kept saying, I know there's wax in there. And so I bought that that on man, I pulled this thing out of his ear. Yeah, so gross. Disgusting. I know. But immediately he was like, Oh my gosh, that was it. I can hear now. Yeah. I'd probably need to have him do it to me. I'm kind of afraid. I think that I'm gentle and would be good, but he'd be in there like restoring an earb.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

It's so hard, true, to like do because you're it takes you a minute to figure out the way the camera. Well, when you're looking at your phone, yeah. You're looking at the phone, so it shows um, it's like a stick thing that you put in your ear, and then you're looking at your phone to see into it. And that's what Jason kept yelling at me about. He's like, You're just not gentle. Just sitting up like laughing. It just is so funny. I know. And anytime he's like kind of medical like that, it's so funny. I know. And then everyone went Andrew loves this thing, and actually he's been like, Mom, get that thing out and look at my ear. And I've been like, it's dead. And then tonight he's like, Yes! I was like, Grey, I'm never getting out of here. It's dead. We gotta look at which it did die once. You have to charge it. You've probably never needed to charge it. We only used it the one time, but I should have used it for ear infections because I got a great look at Jason's ear to it. Would you have known what it looked like? Yeah, because I bought an I bought an it's called like a mama scoop or something. It's not actually one of those, but it gave you like a here's what they look like. Yeah. I mean, it's obviously I'm not a doctor and it's $20, but we are basically doctors with these tools.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

Emily doctors. My friend Emily listens who is a nurse practitioner, listens to this podcast. That thing is dying right now. Please, girls, stop. Please girl, stop looking in ears. Stop. Just call me. She always tells me she'll look at my ear. So I should just have her probably look at it since it's been clogged for months. Yeah, you actually talked to her about it. I know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

Um, the other update I wanted to give from our like a previous episode, we talked about on the one where Patty talked a lot about MS. Um, and just of how like we all need to be the good in the world and be the helpers. And I had told Patty we went to Bueller's. I bet it was last Thursday, probably, unless it was last weekend, which is just our local grocery store. It's the best grocery store. The best. Like a dream goal is to just be able to purely shop it like only Buellers.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

Our financial situation's right now as a treat together. Everyone probably has a grocery store like that. Growing up, we had it was called Heinans, and they're in Northeast Ohio, and Buellers is so much like it, and it's just yeah, everything seems clean and fresh.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

Everyone is so nice. Everyone's like, never again actually will I go into the Worcester Walmart with kids ever. It was terrible. Yeah, that swimsuit story. Yeah. No, that was Ashland. I think Ashland's nice. I don't know why I just thought Worcester was so terrible. Yeah. I only had one kid.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

It's a lot more crowded for whatever reason.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

Yeah, and I noticed all the aisles felt so close together compared to like a Meyer. Meyer is, yeah. Meyer's in the in the in-between. Anyways, we were checking out. I had all three kids with me. We did something before that. Oh, coffee shop probably. Um, and then went there. And this guy in front of us, I have the full cart. And the other treat about Buellers is they have the fancy carts that have the car. The trouble is though, I have three kids and there's only two spots. And so unfortunately, Samantha's just always never getting dirt because the boys are in there. Yeah. But this older guy, um, he was in front of us in the checkout, and he was just so nice. And we pull up, we drive into the where you check out, and he offered to unload all of our groceries, like to put them up there. Because it is so tricky as mom. You're like back with the kids, but like to get, you know what I mean? Yeah, because the the car is like it's so massive in front of the cart. Yeah. So it's like two feet behind your car.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

So you have like a little bit of a cart, and then you have this car that they ride in. Yeah, it's almost like um the plastic, like little tyke's cars because it has the lid or the roof to it. Yeah. We used to go to Buellers because that was my boy's love to be in that. Because it's hard to take kids. I only have two kids, but when they were little, it was hard to take them into the grocery store. So it was nice that they could drive around on that car. Yeah, we love it. Sam, though, would just pull things in. I would get to the cuckout and he would have all this stuff. He would grab at his length, like or his height. And then usually he'd open them and I had to buy whatever it was that he'd grab pretzels, oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

Austin threw a fit once because I took the grapes away and he was trying to eat them. And I was like, You're stealing all these grapes. Yeah, you're like, they have to weigh it. They have to weigh it.

unknown 17:20

I was like, stop it.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

He's like, quick, eat more.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

Eat as many as he wants, walk slow. Anyways, this guy unloaded our groceries and he was like, people should have more kids. And I just feel like it feels so chaotic and stressful. Not like insane stress, but you know what I mean when it's just like let's go. For sure in the grocery store. Like, let's just, yeah, especially if it's a second or third stop of the day. And that just made my day. He was so nice. And he let the kids help him them help him because they love to, you know, it's so fun to put the groceries.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

I have this really great on the group of women book club, and a lot of them are older and have kids older than me. And they told me when my kids were really little, I remember that you're not really a mom until you've left behind a cart groceries because your kid is throwing a fit. Like that is, until you have done that. But it's funny because when my boys were really little, babies, Buellers had you could order online.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

I remember when you started doing that.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

And I think it cost ten dollars. Yeah. But it was worth it.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

I remember not having kids, and I was like, oh, I would never do, like, why would I do that?

SPEAKER_01 18:20

But now that I have kids, because when you have little kids and you're working, your time is money. Yes. Like you have to find ways to save time.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

Even if I wait for a half hour in the Walmart grocery pickup, it's still worth it. It takes an hour inside. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Um, and I still swear that you would buy more because you think you'd buy more inside.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

Yes, because even though you maybe have a list you're sticking to or something, you're grabbing stuff off the end caps.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Oh, there's just a kid tax. If they want more raspberries, you're just like almost anything to go.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

Not anything. I'm not buying like everything not on the wall.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

You're not buying the cherries that are $9 a pound. Right. But maybe raspberries or grapes.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Yeah, four or five dollars a pound. You can squeeze those in. Oh funny.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Yeah, I love that. Kind of along those lines. I took my dad to that appointment yesterday and we had the nicest nurse. And I made it a point afterwards. I told her, I thanked her over and over for just being kind and patient because I know that he is just one patient and she has another patient next, right? And so giving us extra time that we needed is not always available. So I understand that. But there with his mobility issues and things, there are people that really are standoffish, like do not want to help him get into a bed, do not want to help in any way. I've been left alone. Like, I'll let you get him in the bed and I'll be back. And this woman was well, she had, I think she told us 14 years experience in skilled nursing, and so really understanding of where he lives and his situation, and just has been around people that are at his capability level, like for what he can do. Yeah, I don't know how to say that. So she was just so great. And so I went on um Cleveland Clinic's website and found a way to nominate her for an award. I don't know if that was the right thing to do. It's hard to find. I wish there was just like, how was your visit? And you could just do five stars and name her like you can for the Walmart grocery order.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Right.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Because I do the same thing sometimes that for them, but so hopefully she gets some recognition because I just feel like I can tell you I'm never going to write a complaint. It's not my personality, but I could write a positive yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

Yeah. I'm with you. I'm laughing because she's a kid. I'm not that's not that. She's like, this is hilarious. I'll never get her dad's appointment. No, and you're like, I'll never write a complaint. I also would not accept four. I this is at um the Walmart grocery pickup in Ashland. I've had him twice, and he is the grumpiest kid. I'm like still talking, and he just like walks away. Yeah, he doesn't want your nonsense. I didn't, I don't know. Did you write a complaint? No, I would never. But I was like, hey, I need to not, I was like, I don't want the sub. And he's like, you can do that in the app. I was like, I know, but I accidentally checked in first and now I can't. Well, why can't you follow the rules?

SPEAKER_01 20:57

My fault. No, what time? It's your fault. You're getting the substitution. Was it what was the substitution? Some of them are so infuriating.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

The only one it was I wanted regular frozen blueberries, and he gave us the wild ones, and we just don't love them.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

One time I I only do free and clear laundry detergent, and they wanted to give me regular tide.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

Right. No. Which I know how to use the app. I was and I'm so nice. Yes. Isn't it so frustrating that now they have to have that um scanner? Yeah. Yes, it's so annoying. I think that's the last time I had it. He's probably like, I remember you. You forgot the scanner code.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

I never have it. I'm always like, I don't know where it went on my phone. It disappeared. You just have to go to the app.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

Do you know this? Do you know how to use it?

SPEAKER_01 21:34

I don't. An app? What's that? So funny.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

Um he was so grumpy.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

When I was in college, a friend of mine in college, we went to Applebee's and she didn't like her burger, and she went home and wrote an email to Applebee's. No. It's too I think. I think of it a lot. Too much. Why? I remember it really made me think wonder like, oh, you're that type of person. One, what wouldn't you just be like, I'm never ordering this again. And maybe I might tell, like, if I went to that restaurant with a friend. I might say, I got that once. It wasn't good. Don't get it. Right. I wouldn't even tell people if I wasn't going to the restaurant.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

But it's like, is this gonna benefit anyone else? Like, did my burger have a something disgusting? Like a Right. Like, hey, you guys have You didn't get sick from it.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

Right. You just didn't like the sauce. I don't remember what it was. I actually do remember the details, but I'm not gonna wear it.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

Here's the thing. You just I think what you put out you get back. And I think if if that's what you're putting out is being grumpy and writing complaints, it's just what you're what you look for, you find, right?

SPEAKER_01 22:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

And you really do have just the power to make someone's day. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

Agreed.

unknown 22:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

So five days of school left, right? Um, actually just one this week and then three next week, but then so four, but four with kids, and then I have one more. And I just Friday. Yes, teacher work day. Well, they do the school board gives us a lunch and it's a amazing lunch. They grow burgers for us and it's so good. Nice. Yeah, that's a it's new in the last few years. Like school board switch and they really they treat us well. So that's always a plus. But yeah, I think that every year, this is my 20th year. I'm rounding out at ending the year. Wow. Every year, I think you forget a little bit how tired you are at the end of the year. And earlier in the spring, maybe even just a month ago, you have all I had all this energy, you know, the weather's changing, spring cleaning my house, and man, really just tired. Um, so the Bible verse that I picked out that I thought we could say was Ecclesiastes 3:1. There's a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens. Because I think always as a mom, it's important to remember that there's certain seasons where you're doing it all and some just you're not. And have you heard you probably don't because you don't have school age kids yet, but they call May with school May Sumber because it's like December. December is such a busy time because you have all these things before Christmas break. So you have concerts and school party, class parties, and all this stuff that the parents are doing extra for, sending in extra things, getting kids prepared for things. And May feels very much like that. We had choir concert, we had a band concert. Charlie has eighth grade promotion because he's going out of the high school. When's that? The last day for kids. Um, and we had teacher appreciation, you know, week I just it's through Mother's Day in there. Yeah, throw Mother's Day right in the mix. So it just feels like I don't know, we're just tired and just getting through it and um like always grateful for all the seasons and all the different phases, but I never want to wish away time ever, but also kind of ready for summer.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

Yeah. Yeah. I feel like that was some really great advice I got as a mom once. That was just that everything is a season. So, like when they're not sleeping in the night, it's a season and six seasons like just everything. And you can get through one hard season. Yeah. And some seasons are easy. So it's great. Yeah. Is that it? Is that it? All we got. Yeah, we ended on a prayer. God, thank you so much for friendship and for the sun shining. And we just pray for everyone, all the teachers, and everyone just rounding out school, all the students and bus drivers, and um, we just pray that everyone gets to experience your joy this week and that everyone decides to uh feel the joy and show joy to everyone that they see.

unknown 25:17

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Throw joy in there anymore. All the joy be the light. Amen.