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're talking about volunteering

at your kids' school and how to find the speed

of involvement that works for you, even if that means not getting involved. You know we love to

give permission to say no, and as a former public school teacher, Erica always has great

school wisdom to share. So I think we're going to have a lot to say about this topic.

For our neighborhood update today and very

relevant to our topic today, our kids are all back in school. So let's give an update on how the

first days of school have been going and anything we're doing to make the transition smoother

for our kids and for ourselves. Okay. Yeah, we are in our third week of homeschool for the year now.

We're just finishing that up and it's going really well. And I feel like three's a charm.

All right. We're, this is the first week we've done our full schedule with like all of our

activities and subjects added back in. So we definitely kind of slowly added things in, which I learned the hard way,

really helps with homeschool because it's very jarring to be like,

here is your fun summer at home.

And now all of that is gone.

We're still at home and here's all your work.

Like it just does not work like that.

So we slowly added things back in until we're up to speed with our kind of regular

school year routine.

And that's been very helpful.

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