You're listening to the Girl Next Door podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two next door neighbors who love a good chat and a good cocktail. We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, neighbor.

Hey, neighbor. Before we get into this episode, we wanted to ask a favor of all of our listeners. We are super excited

to be recording a Girl Next Door Test Kitchen episode for November, just in time for all the

holiday cooking. And we're calling for your recipes. We want recipes for your favorite

appetizer, side dish, dessert, and of course, cocktail. We're going to

literally test them out in our own kitchens and choose our favorites to share and taste on the show.

We'll share them with everyone. We won't taste them with everyone. Just Eric Scott and I.

So send your recipe submissions to high girls next door at gmail.com by October 5th.

And we can't wait to taste your great ideas.

We are also launching, drum roll please.

There's Kelsey's drum roll.

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just both beginning the journey of parenting kids in preschool officially. We had an entire episode

earlier on parenting toddlers that you can go back and check out that was one of our

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