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I'm Mary Catherine.

And I'm Carol Markowitz.

Rapping up summer over here, Mary Catherine, the kids go back to school, finally, finally.

I know it sounds crazy to those of you

up north, of a little north. But yes, when you get used to school starting after Labor Day,

obviously it's crazy for them to go back in August. But they have been home for so long that you're

like, how much longer? How much longer can they just hang around the house? And my are excited. They're excited to be back in school. I am not excited because this is what I like

to call form filling out season. Yeah. And I am not good at form filling out. And I spend about

half of every day chasing down forms for the next two weeks, but eventually it will be done.

I believe in myself. I feel like you and I have the forwarding forms to husbands kind of email. Yeah.

Forwarding emails to husbands kind of husbands. I forward stuff to him that he then follows up on

and I'm like, what are you even talking about? And then he tells me it's from the email and I'm like, I didn't read that before I forwarded it.

Yeah.

And I took it off my plate as soon as I forwarded it to you.

It no longer existed in my universe once you had it.

Yeah.

The thing you're following up to, gone.

Yeah.

God bless them.

Yeah.

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