This is Heather DeBros World and now you can live in it two times a week right here in podcast one welcome back everybody well today's episode like literally couldn't come at a more opportune and timely moment.

I have educational consultants and co authors of the book the parent compass also dear friends Jen Curtis and Cynthia much.

Thank you guys welcome back.

Oh, it's so we have been counting the days to talk with you again. We're so excited to be here today is it you.

But oh my God is it crazy. Can you believe it? It's here and Cindy. I know that is Ali off to boarding school right now.

Just I just launched her to boarding school. We had a little snag and we ended up I mean yesterday's close and I'm in the boarding school like kind of like a church Bible room surrounded by

Bibles. It's very surreal. I had to find a place I'm not at my home office all made up and looking cute for you today.

I'm so glad you can't smell me but we're good.

Every day. I'll work. It's so funny that this I mean it's not funny. I'm sorry that you have to go through this. But what's crazy is you know when people ask me about their weddings.

I'm always like the fun part about getting married is all the stuff that goes wrong because that's the stuff you remember if everything was perfect.

It was like it was a lovely day whatever my uncle's so right when when grandpa's so and so like kicks the groom and the and the chair falls over and the photographer doesn't show up.

Like when that stuff happens then it's like sending to remember so you of all people and this is your fourth child.

Is is Ellie is she going into ninth or 10. She's going in the 10th same as cat. Right. That's what I thought but that but you decided to send her to boarding for 10.

He decided to send herself. She was ready for a more global you know international experience and she came to us. She's the fourth child.

She watched her older brother go through it. She read the book about it. She like visited multiple schools. She kind of brought it all to us and we said wow you know are you sure you want to leave our company because she nest here.

And she said I really want to try this place and so I'm going to protect your privacy. But what I can say is we had this we moved her in you know I drenched in sweat.

She asked me to leave the room halfway through to go change my clothes because I smelled so bad. She said mom you need to go put the other clothes on because there was parent events afterwards.

Oh my god. So I did my little European shower with some deodorant and some you know perfume and I switched clothes.

And then we got her all settled. We got in our car. We set our good eyes. There was a few tears but we live about you know 90 minutes away. So we knew you know she forgot a desk chair.

It's not terrible. It's not terrible. So we just said we'll see you in a few days with the things you forgot. Don't worry. Just go enjoy orientation, et cetera.

We drove into separate cars to load ups when following my husband home. But we stop at a restaurant because there was no food in the house and we got a call.

We're not just close with the call is about but the call required us to turn around and drive and drive back up. And in our existing clothes we spent the night in a hotel.

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