Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast. A true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I am doing wonderful. How are you? I'm good. Had a good time talking to you over on moms and miscellany, colon.

It was a great chat this week. It really was. Very random.

It truly is. We still need to like, I always want to do a structure, but then I'm like, no, this actually goes pretty well.

It's exactly what people would expect from us. So, yes.

Mandy, you're back from your trip. I am to New York. Picked up your son. I did. And now I have

my son back home. It's been lovely. We talked about that a little bit on Patreon. But yes,

my son is back home. And we're all, yes, we're all happy to be back together. Well, I say we all.

But at least I am happy that we're all back together. Well, there you go. I'm sure he is, too, whether he wants to admit it or not. Yes. That's just how it goes. My daughter told me yesterday she had fun doing something. And I was like, really? Like, I don't know the last time I've heard you just without me asking say, oh, I had really a lot of fun today.

I was like, wow.

Yeah.

Such a win.

Yeah. really? Like, I don't know the last time I heard you just without me asking say, oh, I had really

a lot of fun today. I was like, wow, such a win. Yeah. Well, you know, I was thinking about,

I try to think back to when I was a teenager sometimes and like how I was feeling around that age

and what types of things, you know, bothered me and what types of things were important to me at that time.

Yeah.

And, you know, my son is going to be turning 15 in September, so not too much longer from now.

And so I feel like, tell me if you think this is accurate.

I feel like when I turned 15, I started becoming a little more even keel as a person. Like my personality started being a little bit more like, I don't know, just, you know how it is when you're going through adolescence and you're just having all those changes and everything's just like really explosive and your emotions are really big. I feel like after 15, I kind of started a little bit calming down and like being a little more reasonable. And so I do feel like I'm seeing a little glimmer of that with my son. I don't know if it's just, hopefully it's not like a phase that he's just being great for a phase and then it's going to all go downhill. I hope that it's a positive sign of what's to come. But that's been really great and exciting, especially because my youngest son is like 11, so he's about to start going through the stuff.

So I'm- Need a break.

Yes. I'm right now choosing to be thankful that my older son is happy and we're all doing well.

And I know you know what that's like, the ups and downs of parenting kids these ages.

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