You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two former

next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to

come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey friend. Hey friend. Today we are huddling up to talk

about getting ready for May Madness, which is something

that we think any other fellow parents of school-aged kids can relate to. May Madness is that

final downhill month of the school year when you often feel like you could spin completely out

of control at any moment. And in fact, it was about this time last year that

we had the idea for this episode so that we personally would do a better job preparing for

May this year. So this is an episode that we hope will make our lives and our listeners a little

bit better. But first, what's been happening around the neighborhood for you? We just had this

lovely encounter with somebody who is clearly doing what they love in life. And I love when you have

that situation happen. So we're getting a tree taken out of our front yard that's like got some

invasive roots that, you know, builders put in, but it's not really the best tree for the area.

And then doing a couple other things, adding a couple other things, you know, along with

that.

So we had the guy from the nursery out to, you know, give us a quote and kind of look at our

area, what will grow best, whatever.

And this friend's name is Phil Forrest.

Oh, Phil.

I promise you.

Mr. Forrest. And he was like the most enthusiastic guy about trees I've ever seen.

I think he was more enthusiastic than you are about trees.

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