Back To School
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Even as we continue to navigate a pandemic we find joy in freshly sharpened pencils and the back to school season. We share what school looks like for us this year as homeschool and public school moms plus answer some listener questions. We touch on starting school as a new kinder parent amidst a pandemic, what our morning and afternoon routines will be like, and not getting overwhelmed by extracurriculars.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Erica. And I'm Kelsey. We're two former next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friend. Hey, friend. It is one of our favorite times of year, back to school season. |
| 0:21.8 | And even though the pandemic is still definitely complicating things, we will not let it steal |
| 0:27.0 | our joy over freshly sharpened pencils and new crisp notebooks. |
| 0:30.6 | So this episode will talk all about what the back to school season looks like this year for us. |
| 0:35.4 | As a public school and a homeschool family will answer some |
| 0:38.7 | listener questions about back to school time and just share some general school mom tips we |
| 0:43.5 | both have a couple years in of school aged kiddos so we'll share our tips but first what's going |
| 0:49.9 | on around the neighborhood okay the big news at my house is that Maeve started child care. |
| 0:57.0 | Yay. I have been. No small thing. Oh my gosh. No small thing. I had always planned to have some |
| 1:04.0 | child care for her. And I thought maybe by the time she was about 10 months old or a year, I would get some, |
| 1:10.1 | you know, part-time child care. |
| 1:12.0 | And that just didn't work out with the pandemic, with her being extra shy, because she's a |
| 1:18.0 | pandemic baby, all of these things. So it has finally worked out. She is going to go two days |
| 1:24.1 | a week to a daycare center where we also had the boys where it's just the most |
| 1:29.5 | loving place. So I feel so good about that care. And so anyway, this just represents a really |
| 1:36.0 | huge, just kind of new season for me where I have a little bit of child care. So anyway, |
| 1:42.3 | very excited to get that new routine going. |
| 1:46.5 | In our house, Jeremiah, right now, as we record this, has the girls on another four-day camping |
| 1:53.8 | weekend. I love this. This is a dad's superpower. This is a dad's superpower for sure. It is, |
| 1:58.4 | I feel like, wait, like pinch myself when he does this. |
| 2:01.9 | So it's kind of actually become a back-to-school tradition where we do something that weekend before. |
| 2:07.3 | And the last two years, we had done like a little staycation when they were going back to public |
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