Well, hello, their top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher. Today, I am winging it. And so we have something really special. Michelle is actually right here next to me. Hey. For the first time since March of 2020. So over a year

and a half. Yeah. Well, podcast recording. Yes. Because we've done, we've seen each other.

Yes, here and there. But first time recording together in person and over a year and a half,

we kind of forgot how to do it. Like we had to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And can we throw in that Bridget's power is currently out while we are recording this?

Yes.

But we have something really special today because Michelle and I are, it's not really a secret

Santa because we actually know that we're giving each other gifts, but we're doing a gift exchange.

So we are going to be opening our gifts live right here and then on the

camera too, which is really exciting. Yeah, if you are just listening to the podcast, I am also

recording this. So if you want to see our reactions and see the gifts like in the flesh, I will have

the video up on my YouTube channel. But first, let's hear a TSA from McKenzie.

McKenzie says her time sucking and hurdle is trying to shop for Christmas gifts for my family and friends while also trying not to drown in school responsibilities.

This year, I don't get off for winter break until the day before Christmas Eve, so I have to get it done earlier.

I feel like I'm all over

the place and I can't remember what I've ordered for who. Help me. Yeah, McKenzie, I totally get where

you're coming from. I know that this time of the year, it always seems to come like super quick.

Do you know what I mean? Like all of a sudden, it's Thanksgiving and it's like holy moly I really need to make sure that I have gifts going on one of the things that I started doing and I think this was because of you

right was it because of you I don't know what you're going to say yet I started to put them into

notes I started kind of keeping track of like a list of you know what do people possibly want

so I have like a locked note that nobody else can get into on my phone.

And I've been trying to purchase things little by little. So hopefully I won't have that big of an

issue. But that's something to kind of keep in mind and just kind of keep that running list all year

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