Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Middle Ground.

I'm your host, Caroline, Rose, Ilena Stelty.

Yes, that is my full name.

And sadly, Joe is not with me on today's episode. But I promise,

Pinky promise that she will be back better than ever with me next Monday. So now you just have to

listen to my voice for this whole episode. So enjoy. But yes, anyways, hi, welcome. Welcome to

Middle Ground. If this is your first episode, probably don't listen to this one first because usually

I'm with Joe, but I doubt anyone's listening to this for the first time. But if you are, welcome.

Hi, Caroline, Nice to meet you.

Anyways, let's get into grounding moments. My grounding moment is I survived 17 hours in the car there and back to Florida.

And I'm so proud of myself because I did drive I drove pretty much halfway and Chris drove

the other half and then my friend Virginia who's from Italy was also with us but because she's from

Italy obviously she can't drive because she doesn't have her American license so she was just

passenger the whole time acting like a princess, seriously, that was she was amazing.

But, yeah, so my granny moment is we survived that and it's over.

And now we can just be home.

I'm so glad to be home.

So if you didn't know, this whole month of August, I've been home a total of five days, literally five days. I

calculated it last night. I'm like, that is ridiculous. I've been just traveling with Virginia,

showing her America, which has been such a blessing and a privilege. And I'm very sad of her to go.

She leaves actually this week. And yeah, so anyways, that's one of my

grander moments. And also my brother and sister-in-law and their baby. So my first and only

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