I'm Elizabeth Reese.

I'm Marjorie Puddle.

This is Best to the Nest, the podcast that's all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly.

Marjorie, listen, people might think that we flew off the

face of the earth because we've been gone for a couple of weeks. For that, I want to say,

I apologize, because I know what it's like to love a podcast and really look forward to it

coming out every week. I have several that I'm totally into that I just like love it when I get to listen to a

new episode. And then I also just want to say it's been a couple of weeks. It was like things just

kind of kept piling on. And so here we are. We're back. And we've missed you. And I've missed you,

Marjorie. I've missed you so much. And we just thought today we would just sort of go over what we've been going through

because on both of our stories, it's what so many people are going through.

So for me, I, okay, so I traveled all the way through Italy.

I know.

I cannot tell you how crowded it was in Rome.

I go to leave Italy,

take my COVID test because, hello people, you can't get back into the United States if you test

positive for COVID. Right. So I have a negative test, get back. I'm fine. Three weeks later,

my husband and I decide to go to Kansas City for the weekend. We go to Kansas City. I love Kansas City, by the way.

Hello, Kansas City. I love that city. It's such a great city. I haven't been there in a long time,

and I really do love it. And I love the barbecue. I don't understand why sometimes you're in Kansas

and sometimes you're in Missouri, but it's different, but they're the same. But, you know, I mean, whatever. That's like semantics. That's fine. I'll let that go. Let it go. I do like Kansas City. And you know what? I just let

it wash over me and try not to care whether I'm in the state of Kansas or the state of Missouri

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