Okay, we are starting over because we were recording a totally different episode. And I just,

the only reason I share that is for you to know as the listener that we really care about

not wasting your time and having a really good episode to listen to. I mean, I don't think

like everything we do is amazing by any means. But so that you know it's really, really important to

us that everything feels good and on. And so we're shifting topics. And the one that we're about

to talk about I feel really good about. And it's something that's so top of

mind for me. I have found myself talking to multiple friends about it. And so that is just intention,

setting intention. And before you go like, I roll like, okay, that's so cliche. Everybody talks

about that. I'm going to tell you my personal experience with that in two

different instances so the first was christmas break and our kids have a really long christmas

break they have a three week christmas break and in years past i've been like okay week three

of christmas break we've got to schedule something. We've got to get out of town

because three weeks with all the kids in the house is going to make me crazy. And so I kind of looked

at it that way and almost kind of dreaded it. Like what are we going to do with them for three weeks?

And it was just that kind of mindset. And we've done some really fun things. We've like rented

beach houses and whatever. But this year,

just like our schedules and things that we had going on and our kids and whatever, it didn't

line up for us to go out of town. So we decided to stay home. And I just remember starting out

Christmas break saying, I'm going to enjoy my kids. I'm going to really enjoy and love this time with them

and get to know them better as friends. And it just changed everything. It changed everything for me

as far as like looking at that time every night of like, this is so fun. What are we going to do

tonight? Like let's play a game.

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