294 | holiday chaos is over.. now what?

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5.0 • 39.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things.
0:02.2	With Sean and Andrew.
0:03.9	Today, we're going to talk about returning to school post-holiday chaos.
0:09.6	Oh, baby, baby. Is it chaos?
0:13.0	Is it chaos? And we're going to talk about the controversial, controversial idea of, is it a good thing? Do we like when they go back to school
0:23.2	after the holidays? Or like, are we ready or not? I tell you what, everyone's already sick now.
0:28.4	Everyone's already sick. I know. And I feel like, well, the theme of this episode really is
0:33.8	getting back into the groove after the holidays.
0:38.1	Pressing the reset button, new routines, early mornings, trying to find rhythms again.
0:42.3	I don't know about you, babe.
0:44.1	Do you feel like your routine gets messed up and mixed up during the holidays?
0:49.4	Are you serious?
0:51.1	I mean, what routine, first of all?
0:53.2	I would say, there is some. We decided to do something sick and twisted this year.
0:58.7	We decided to throw a move into it as well.
1:01.7	So, like, we literally moved houses.
1:03.2	We had to move out of our house.
1:05.7	We had a month period of time before we could move into the new house.
1:09.7	Yeah.
1:10.0	We threw in a December birthday, a week-long vacation trip, which is just a distraction
1:15.7	for the kids, a move, and then Christmas.
1:19.2	And maintain the holiday travel.
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