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 the show, we want to remind you all that our new neighborly advice audio

classes are out. The topics for this release are minimalism for real people and high fives to your

future self. They are packed with tips and strategies that will motivate you to simplify

and plan ahead in ways that work for you. We also wanted to announce our reading pick for our spring book club episode.

If you haven't joined us before, it is just an online book club. We are reading A Piece of the

World by Christina Baker Klein, and that episode will air May 24th, so grab your copy and read along with us.

All right, our topic today is spending quality time with our kids.

We'll chat about how we define quality time, what it looks like in our families,

and how we ensure that it happens, and what gets in the way.

But first...

Sad kids.

Exactly.

Possibly.

But first, a cocktail.

All right. I just whipped to this up and I'm going to call it a grapefruit and pineapple fizz.

Ooh, I like that.

It was inspired by walking down the aisle at Target looking for what I could mix with things. There's all good things.

So let's see, there's rum.

I made a pineapple simple syrup.

And then there's Q grapefruit soda, which the copy on the box says that it is not sweet.

So I'm hoping it will be a true grapefruit taste and then some fresh lime.

All right.

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