Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. In every episode, we bring our different perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends.

We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about yet.

Okay, friends, May is upon us, which means things are very busy

and also summer is upon us. And I think that's partly what makes May feel a little hectic,

is you're getting ready for the summer as well, knowing the school year's done, the routines

are about to change. So today's episode is all about how we are designing our summer to be

hopefully fun but relaxing and how we hope to keep our sanity over the very hot, very long

Arizona summer. Even Kelsey who's escaping will have plenty of it when she gets back. It'll be

waiting for me. So in the extended version of this episode, just for friends of the show over on

Patreon, we'll be talking about what we are specifically dreading about this summer.

We're going to try to keep it more positive here in the general feed.

So if you want some more real talk about the hard parts of quote unquote summer vacation,

you can get access to that.

And all of our other bonus content at the link in show notes,

we so appreciate your support on

patreon also if you want to hear even more about summer topics and how we've handled summer at

different stages of parenthood you can check out our past episodes summer eats and suburbans

is a good one summer wardrobes and firm bottoms, personal favorite of mine. Yes. And summer

management and also sunburned. We talk about it a lot. Summer is a whole thing here in the

desert. It really is. Okay, let's start with the summer vibe check. How are you feeling? Is the

anxiety starting yet? How are you feeling with the weather heating up and summer just around the

corner? How are we doing? Okay, I'm, I am feeling pretty good. I will say, knowing that we get to

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