He just looks at me like 100% needs me, you know, just for everything. He literally can't do

anything on his own. And he's starting to smile at me. And it's just like everything is worth it.

Hey, we are Shan and Ryan Tripp, parents of five on a journey to discover what it takes to raise great humans

while enjoying the heck out of life along the way. Sometimes it's easy to let the weight of everyday life

parenting, marriage, finances, get in the way. But what we found is that as you break out of the

norm and do life a little bit differently, a whole new world can open up to you.

So if you're ready, we would love to invite you on this journey with us as we pull back the curtains and have a whole lot of fun along the way. And it's true what they say, life's a trip.

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We are back. We are back. It's the Life's a Trip podcast. Hello, everybody.

You might have a special guest today, depending on if he wakes up from his nap or not, you might hear some

coups and some cause and some little, you know, they call them like,

what do they call them, meow, like kitten purse? I forgot what that animal is called. Like cat calls?

No, like kitten calls. I think that's like when people are trying to hit on you. No, little baby kitten

purrs. Yeah. Maybe some like pig grunts. Well, big news around here. We didn't get a cat. Oh, thank goodness. We didn't get a pig. We got a new baby. We just got, we just went to the store and got one. And he's here with us now. Actually, we didn't have to go to the store at all. We didn't have to go anywhere. He was born at home. Yeah. He was born at home. And we have just been living and soaking in this newborn bubble for the last month.

So we've taken a little break from literally everything in our lives, really slowed down.

I mean, after six kids, you realize just how fast this time goes and how precious it is.

And so we just push the pause button.

And we have been living in that bubble, but we are

back and excited to share, you know, some more like stories and personal stuff that we've been

going through and hopefully give you guys a little extra light to your day. Yeah. And it was a good

chance to take a little, you know, when you have your baby, you take a leave of absence from work. And Shannon and I pushed pause. We took a little, I guess he wouldn't call it a sabbatical. We haven't really been sleeping or doing much around here.

Definitely not a sabbatical. We're just kind of crawling out of our house and, you know, seeing the sunlight for the first time. But it gave us a good chance

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