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trusted by parents nationwide. Hello everybody. Welcome to Thursday's solo episode. Today I am

speaking about kids' birthday parties. I'm going to do a deep dive and oh my God, I didn't realize

how much passion people have when they are asked about this topic

because I just randomly threw up a question box on Instagram and I was like, oh, let's hear

what people have to say about kids' birthday parties because it is such a thing nowadays.

And I was shocked at the response.

I thought I would get like a handful of people just being like, oh, I love party planning or like whatever. No. So many people have so many thoughts,

so many opinions, so much passion. I am in my little downstairs basement studio. I'm always, if you see me looking around,

if you're watching on YouTube, I am looking for spiders. I love our neighborhood because there's

so many trees, but at the same time, trees equal spiders. Not cool. And they like to spin their little webs all over the outside of our house.

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