Welcome to the High and Load podcast. This is your host, Bravo, Bravo, Ducking, Bravo. Before we get started, let me just say, for those of you who are also dealing with the really fun demands of sending a child to school, I feel for you, and I'm right there with you.

Tuesdays is crazy sock day, but wait for the rest of this month, it's crazy holiday sock

days.

Every Wednesday, don't forget, it's pajama day.

Thursday is going to be bring your holiday stuffy while you're wearing a hat only if it's a

full moon. And don't worry about it if you forget. No big deal. If you forget, then your child will be

the only one who's not dressed the same as everybody else with their fun flair and everybody

will know that you have failed to keep up with everything and

or that you're bad at reading emails and emotional trauma for a small child.

Nope, the stakes are low.

And thank you, thank you, for officially making me an old person who says, in my day, we didn't

do all this.

In my day, we kept it simple.

You know what it is.

You don't need to do.

I need to just sit and watch bad moms. It's like bad moms. It's always Christmas themed because I feel like this is the

pressure cooker. This is when it is absolutely the most demanding time of year to be a parent.

Make the fun. Put the lights up. Don't forget the thing for school. Have you

wrap the presents? Did you get everybody a present? Is this so fun? Before I could start recording this

pod, I had to research and find an ugly Christmas sweater for children that I could get here

in time to wear for what I now learned is going to be ugly Christmas sweater day. Why? I get it. No, I know. It's very fun. I don't have an

endless array and assortment of ugly Christmas sweaters in children's sizes. I just was in a sweat

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