Hello and welcome back to the middle ground. I'm Joe. And I'm Caroline. And I'm finally doing the intro. Yay. Yay. Welcome. You, uh, you, uh, we missed you guys last week for Labor Day. Yep, happy Labor Day. Hope you had fun. Hope you had a relaxing three

days. Was that when your nephew was in town? No. Yes. He was in town Thursday to Tuesday.

And you've, how'd the flying go? Guys, okay, so if you don't know, I went to Dallas.

My nephew lives in Dallas or outside of Dallas, picked him up and flew him back.

And I was storing him, putting him on my story.

And my DMs were like, you're flying with a child.

I'm like, I'm not 12.

Yeah.

Like I wasn't offended, but I'm like, yeah, I can do it.

Well, it's not that.

No.

I mean, so there are parts of it that it can be hard.

Yes.

And it was interesting because my, like, from my perspective, he's my brother's child. And I think I've said this on the podcast before. And not that that changes anything, but like it's my brother's kid. So like my his wife, my sister-in-law, who's amazing, love her. She's been in our life forever. Like it's, I feel honored that she trusts me. And like's like yeah take the kid like you got this like

she's always been like that and so I think it just comes down to family dynamic and like I think

people see that because everyone always assumes that it's my sister they're like oh your sister's kid

your sister and like we kind of do lookalikes which doesn't help help this area. You do kind of look like. Yeah. But I'm like, no, it's my brother's kid. They're like, what? Like your sister-in-law let you? I'm like, yeah, she trusts me. Also, I think, I don't know. I feel like stuff gets, hmm, I feel complicated about it because I know some moms and

like parents and guardians have really negative experiences and I don't want to like dismiss that.

Yeah. But I feel like all of it's not as hard as we make it out to be. No, seriously. And like I flew

there with a little like fanny pack thing in my iPad that's it and then um landed got

he had a like carry-on suitcase which i checked in his stroller that i checked and so i just had him and

his diaper bag and like his diaper bag was loaded with all the ammo of snacks um he had like an electronic toy in

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