How Was Your Summer?

The Girl Next Door Podcast

Kelsey Wharton

Kids & Family, Working, Books, Family, Creative, Cooking, Work, Mom, Honest, Life, Society & Culture, Married, Personal Journals, Conversation

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We're catching up on how our summers went—as friends do! We share highs and lows and discuss how our summer plans actually played out.

For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're sharing what didn't go so well this summer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. In every episode, we bring our different
0:09.0	perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show
0:14.4	years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and
0:18.6	laugh about yet. Welcome back in real time.
0:22.8	Today's episode is a reunion of sorts, not for you all, but for us. We have had some pre-recorded
0:29.0	content coming your way all summer so that we could take the summer off. And now we're back together
0:34.2	in the desert of Arizona face to face to catch up with you all and each other about our summers.
0:39.8	So we know for many of you, summer is still in full swing.
0:43.2	We get that.
0:43.8	But here in Arizona, kids get back to school around the end of July.
0:48.0	Don't worry.
0:48.7	They also get out before Memorial Day.
0:50.6	This is very controversial on the internet.
0:52.8	But we are officially in back to school season and eager to wrap up the hot, hot summer here. So let's just start with an overall update. What'd you do this summer? How are you coming into today's episode and this new season? How was your summer? Okay. I will say temperature wise, I'm coming in hot because it is freaking hot. Yeah. And you were in
1:13.8	cooler climbs. Yes. Yes, I was. So we were in O'Clair, Wisconsin, in the glorious Midwest,
1:22.2	for all of our kids, just about all of our kids, summer break, it was wonderful.
1:27.9	It was wonderful in many ways.
1:29.5	Weather-wise, it was wonderful.
1:31.6	We were up there furnishing our house that we have up there and just enjoying being back
1:37.6	there for the first time in three years.
1:39.8	I would say emotion-wise, right now, I'm coming in room temperature, if that's allowed. Okay. Not totally cool and collected, but not a hot mess either. Okay. Kind of. You know? Yeah. I would say we have not settled into a routine yet, but the school year is rolling. Right. I am eager to get into a routine, but it's just sort of, it just kind of needs time to
2:01.7	get there. Right. It's harder before. It gets worse before it gets better kind of thing.
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