Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Kelsey and I'm Erica. 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. Today we're talking about everyday routines like our

morning and evening routines, kid routines, and routines for those ever-present things

like food and laundry, those things you deal with every day. We love talking about routines,

and this episode will be a grab bag of them. In our segment, just for Friends of the Show, we'll be talking about weird routines that we have. I can't wait to hear yours. And I want to know if you have any routines around our in-person book club because I realize that I have some. I bet you do. And I've never asked you about this. Yeah. This is good to talk about. Yeah. So if you would like to hear all about those, join us on Patreon for $5 a month to hear our

extended episodes and get bonus content from us. And if you love this topic, it is not our first

time to talk about routines. Check out our past episodes like evening routines, current school routines, and many more.

We love a routine. We really do. We'll have those linked in the show notes on our web page and on

Patreon for Friends of the Show. Okay, let's start with morning routines. What's yours like?

Okay, at the risk of sounding like a broken record with this comparison,

but I really think it's so true. It feels like I have toddlers again, where it's shifting so quickly from day to day, a week to week. The routine is changing, what they need. You know,

and because we can be more flexible with homeschool, I'm just realizing like I've stopped fighting

certain things and got, you know, I thought one thing would help. I tried that. That didn't help. I'm just realizing like I've stopped fighting certain things and got,

you know, I thought one thing would help. I tried that. That didn't help. We're just in that very

iterating. Faisy part of life again. So as of right now, I sleep until about 738. Okay. I mean,

I would sleep longer because I usually stay up until about midnight reading. I really should be done by 11 and then I would get my full like eight to nine hours. But, you know, anyways. So caffeine is brought to me by either Jeremiah or sometimes Julia. I love that. Especially if Jeremiah's out of town, she will always come say good morning and see if I want anything. It's so cute. Like she knows, you know, how I am in the morning. But then lately, she has been sleeping in a ton. And it's like, clearly she just needs it. She's almost 13. She's grown so much. She's gone up four shoe sizes in one year. Holy cow. Like I'm telling you, this girl is

growing. Yes. And so I'm like, I am just going to leave the sleeping bear lie in the morning.

And actually, it's working out really good. That didn't work at first because, first of all,

Vanessa didn't seem to need the same thing at that age, and she's much more of a morning person.

So I felt like if I let Julia sleep in, we were waiting on her to start the school day.

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