What I want to ask is, are you happy that it's the beginning of fall in the school year?

Are you glad about that? Are you kind of sad about that? What's going on this last week with your emotions?

Well, I'll say for the Arnold House,

we have a joke that Summer is our love language,

and that's very true. I love summer. I love summer. It's a hard

turn. Yeah. It's a hard turn in every way, especially at 6 a.m. Right? Yeah, the sun comes up later and you have to wake up earlier to get everyone ready and out the door.

And it's hard. I love summer.

I remember so much loving summer as a kid.

So I have such compassion for my children

that they have to make such a quick adjustment because I don't think

there are two weeks ahead going okay got two weeks until school starts what do we need to do

they're still in the... Right?

It's summer mode, so...

To have this instant...

Oh, schools tomorrow.

Yeah.

It feels so unkind.

It really does.

I think I'm going to borrow your phrase that it's your love

language. It's our love language too. But there's this wonderful new season on the horizon too which feels good like we get a fresh start we can try some things this year that we haven't tried all summer we can have a routine we can be responsible we can make

our beds so I think it's hard and a hard left turn and a lot of change at once and it's also great.

The first day they weren't in my house and I was in my house and it was quiet. I was like, I love being in my house. I love being in my

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