Hello, everybody and welcome to the podcast today.

I am just recovering.

We just got back from a week-long trip in California at the beach, and it was with our whole family. We met up with my sister. It was really fun. Really fun. We had a really good time. But it was a whole family deal, and traveling with kids can beregulating to my nervous system for sure.

Like when you take into account the plane flights, like lots of driving, lots of time in the sun,

there's a lot going on all the time and everyone is out of their normal routine.

And hello, like doing anything with a four-year-old in general is challenging.

So we're back.

We've been back for a couple of days.

And as we got back from the trip, I just had this feeling.

Like I wanted to evaluate how it went.

No, I don't really mean like the trip.

The trip actually went really well.

I have to say, if you have young kids

and traveling with them is really hard. We went a really long time without even traveling with our

kids because it was just so challenging for me. And now we are at the point where like both of my

kids slept in the bunk bedroom. They didn't come out after I put them to bed. They waited for me

to come get them in the morning. And I'm mainly talking about my four-year-old. They both were playing

in the sand and the water. And it just feels like there have been so many years where you know,

you're bringing all your baby stuff and traveling and flying or driving with a pack and play and like all of

the baby shit and it was just not that anymore. So like overall the trip went really, really well.

It was really fun. I'm noticing my capacity is definitely bigger and I'm excited to do a mental

health update, which I will do probably in the

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